Two years ago, I started a mission to bring awareness to the plagiarism epidemic that is happening in the music industry. Artists are being targeted for their creative works, sound, and likeness on social media by mainstream artists and labels in the music industry. They are using artists' social media pages as blueprints for their projects. The same thing that they fear that AI is about to do to them. They know in most cases it will be impossible for smaller artists to prove that their work and rights as an artist have been violated. They use words like "inspired" to cover what they are truly doing and as a way of not giving credit or payment to the rightful creative. While we all are inspired by something and nothing is new under the sun, there is a difference between just sitting there and purposely copying someone else's work. It's like writing your name on someone else's homework. That would get you expelled from any school/ college. The music industry should be held to the same standards as college. If college music students were to copy another's work and turn it in as their own, they would be expelled. Some of these same artists and labels have voiced their concerns about AI. They fear that AI will do the same thing to them, as they have done to other artists. They fear that AI will do the same behaviors that they have willfully turned a blind eye to or that they have applauded others for doing. This topic has recently been put back into the mainstream media. It seems that some artists and labels can see how harmful and hurtful creative theft is when it's AI but willfully turn a blind eye when the same corruption is done by some of their peers. My goal is to get legislation passed that holds both human  and AI plagiarists to the same standards. Check out some of these articles and videos below that show how artists, labels, and institutions feel about AI and plagiarism in general. I have some ideas in mind of ways that social media can help protect indie and smaller creatives that use their platforms to share art. I will include those ideas in another letter addressed to the president. 

https://youtu.be/wy08U3gEU8w?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/8GLUHNYbHPU?feature=shared
https://www.recordingacademy.com/advocacy/news/ai-copyright-protecting-music-creators-united-states-copyright-office
https://www.nme.com/news/music/kehlani-criticises-ai-generated-artist-xania-monet-getting-3million-record-deal-i-dont-respect-it-3893972
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5431544/timbaland-ai-music-suno-stage-zero-tata-generative
https://youtu.be/NPflYreNdeU?feature=shared
https://www.fastcompany.com/91041305/universal-music-group-most-innovative-companies-2024

https://music.yale.edu/academic-policies