That seems more like a “let’s not sweat the small stuff” type decision to me. It seems like exactly the sort of decision that would have to be revisited if huge industries got built on AI.

I mean, ultimately if you had a “virtual musician” that could do “live performances” of any cover with 100% fidelity on demand while running on your phone, I think we wouldn’t treat that like a human cover band. Doing so would just kill off the idea of music IP (which, I’m definitely not going to defend the current mess that is IP law, but people have been arguing about it for a long time, so I suspect we as a society won’t just toss it out now).

It also occurred to me while writing this that this sort of virtual musician wouldn’t even really be like a cover band, because they don’t even play at a venue. They play just for you. I suspect there are no laws, at least being enforced, that cover what sort of songs a musician can play in private, in their friends’ houses. So, I think this is really going to break our intuition.