vAIsual, Rightsify ink licensing deal to deliver royalty-free music

vAIsual Inc. signed a licensing deal with Rightsify to package their collection of millions of songs into datasets for AI training. According to vAIsual, the deal is an important step in making highly specific datasets to meet the needs of AI developers wanting to create generative AI models for music.

“We are excited to partner with Rightsify to offer rights-cleared music on the Dataset Shop, said Michael Osterrieder, CEO, vAIsual. “This collection is particularly useful for ML developers because the audio files are in a lossless format and are associated with JSON files containing over 800 parameters describing the music in exact detail.

“Annotation on this level is something Rightsify have excelled at, and we think these datasets will spawn all sorts of music generation technology, powered by AI.”

“At Rightsify, we are excited to be working with the Dataset Shop to promote ethical and copyright-compliant use of generative AI,” says Alex Bestall, CEO at Rightsify. “Large scale music models are the future of music and we’re proud to be at its forefront.”

In the coming weeks, datasets will be custom-made from the Rightsify library of royalty-free music. The datasets are specially prepared for engineers to add to their workflow for AI training and are available via the Dataset Shop.

First launched in 2022, vAIsual Inc’s Dataset Shop is a marketplace for visual media designed specifically for AI training purposes. The online store initially sold the largest biometrically released human dataset, consisting of over 600,000 high-quality images, custom prepared for AI training.

The Dataset Shop is rapidly growing the collection of datasets through partnerships with stock agencies seeking to address the issue of widespread scraping of datasets, obtained without the consent of copyright owners.