

Humans are primarily visual creatures, so we can detect the slop in AI images a LOT faster than we can in audio.
Human artists are going to have to get a lot weirder to out-innovate AI music, and I’m actually happy about that. Weird music is the best.



Legally, it seems it does, at least in the US and EU. I assume China too.
Whether or not it should is a different argument, but copyright is a legal framework, not an ethical one.