Drake's AI creates legal trap for Google.

The release of an AI-generated track that sounds like Drake and The Weeknd has put Google in a legal bind. The track was removed from music streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify after Universal Music Group (UMG) issued a statement claiming that using generative AI infringes its copyrights. However, the track remained on YouTube and TikTok, prompting UMG to issue individual URL-by-URL takedowns to YouTube. The problem is that UMG doesn't own the original song, so it claimed that the Metro Boomin producer tag at the start of the song was an unauthorized sample. If the track is re-uploaded without the tag, it could trigger a copyright war that pits the future of Google against the future of YouTube.