Pro Sound Effects, a well-known audio library, has reached an agreement with Music AI to license some of its materials for AI training.

Under the terms of the deal announced Tuesday, Pro Sound Effects will access certain recordings from its extensive catalog for music AI for use in AI training, and the library can agree to the licensing and use of the material. The Pro Sound Effects catalogue contains over 1.2 million sounds, from explosions to air volume to airplane noise. Its clients and contributors to artists engaged in projects including dune,,,,, Oppenheimer and Batman.

The sound will enter the training dataset used by the music AI client (its first generated client is AI Music Generator Company Beatoven). Music AI will then report to the AI ​​sound to how it works in the AI ​​output, each output is "marked" with the name of its name used to create its work.

The company said the purpose of this approach is that musical AI determines the role of each licensee in the output, in order to "promote fair and proportional royalties to creators."

Last year, musical AI teamed up with independent music distribution company Synsphonic for its first major deal with Rightsholder.

Music AI CEO Sean Power calls the partnership a “huge victory” for AI companies trying to train their models, given the “sound diversity” and “excellent metadata” of the Pro Sound Effect’s catalog. He added: “By working together, we are opening more doors to participating in the generated AI, while respecting and enhancing the value of library PSEs has been built over the past 20 years.”

Although prominent news publishers have begun signing high-profile AI license agreements, Hollywood has often taken a more cautious approach from willingness to contribute its copyrighted work to AI training datasets, at least at least publicly. Lionsgate is the first outstanding studio to reach an agreement with AI companies in 2024 and reached an agreement in 2024. The Actors League’s Sag-Aftra reached a specific deal to allow its members to lend their voices for training and replication purposes, with the focus on consent and compensation.

Of course, in lawsuits between companies and creators, the AI ​​company essentially stole its copyrighted material, with major companies claiming they are accessing publicly available materials through “fair use.”

By contrast, the purpose of music AI transactions is to give the right payer the right to agree to AI training and to be properly compensated for the purpose. Douglas Price, founder and CEO of Pro Sound Effects, said in a statement that the deal is a “setting standard” “model in which sound effects are seen as basic creative tools, with fairly licensed and set to fuel the future of AI audio innovation.”