{"id":2234273,"date":"2026-01-14T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234273"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:33:45","slug":"spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Spotify is publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to his official Spotify page, Blaze Foley, a country music singer-songwriter who was murdered in 1989, released a new song called \u201cTogether\u201d last week. The song, which features a male country singer, piano, and an electric guitar, vaguely sounds like a new, slow country song. The Spotify page for the song also features an image of an AI-generated image of a man who looks nothing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaze_Foley?ref=404media.co#\/media\/File:Blaze_Foley.jpg\"><u>like Foley<\/u><\/a> singing into a microphone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Craig McDonald, the owner of Lost Art Records, the label that distributes all of Foley\u2019s music and manages his Spotify page, told me that any Foley fan would instantly realize \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/0tePhhCcKydTjUVvhpQQ7c?ref=404media.co\"><u>Together<\/u><\/a>\u201d is not one of his songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"paid\">\n<h2>This post is for paid members only<\/h2>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"members\">\n<h2>Sign up for free access to this post<\/h2>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.404media.co \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels.\u00a0 According to his official Spotify page, Blaze Foley, a country music singer-songwriter who was murdered in 1989, released a new song called \u201cTogether\u201d last week. 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