As we celebrate World IP Day tomorrow, it’s a fitting time to reflect on how generative AI is transforming music creation, producing impressibly polished tracks in seconds, while also raising vital questions about fairly compensating artists whose work is used to train these models. I explore this topic in my article featured in the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO Magazine’s' special issue on Music and IP, 'Royalties in the age of AI: paying artists for AI-generated songs'.