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Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation Cover

Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation

By: Fabio Morreale  
Open Access
|Jul 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.86 | Journal eISSN: 2514-3298
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 2, 2021
Accepted on: Jun 29, 2021
Published on: Jul 20, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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