What if AI is used only as part of the creative process?

Licensed AI tools may be used as a creative support tool, for example to assist with brainstorming, lyric drafting or production experimentation.

However, the composition must ultimately be authored by human songwriters in order to be eligible for copyright protection and registration within the publishing ecosystem.

If a work is determined by Believe Music Publishing (in its sole discretion) to be substantially or entirely AI-generated, it cannot be processed for publishing administration or royalty collection.