Canadian Music Industry Rallies Against AI Theft as Comedy Kings and Queens Are Crowned

Edmonton-born rapper Cadence Weapon just dropped a bombshell: he discovered 129 of his songs were scraped into AI training datasets without his consent. He's far from alone. The entire Canadian music industry is now urging Ottawa to mandate compensation from AI companies that profit off unpaid creative work. "This is an existential fight for the soul of Canadian music," one industry rep put it. The federal government is under immense pressure to establish...