Murphy Campbell's copyright strike by an AI cloner exposes the legal inversion artists warned about: the theft infrastructure now defends itself with the tools built to protect creators.
Murphy Campbell's situation is not a training-data dispute — it is a fully documented account of a rights-capture operation. The sequence: AI voice cloning from YouTube source material, distribution across major platforms via Vydia, then automated copyright claims filed against Campbell's own recordings [3]. Each step used an existing, legal-seeming infrastructure. The cloning engine processed what was publicly available. The distribution company moved files through standard channels. The copyright strike system did what it was built to do — it flagged a match. The inversion was the point: the operation…
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