Beatport has expanded its partnership with music fraud detection company Beatdapp, adding technology designed to identify AI-generated music across its catalogue.
Under Beatport’s existing Content Guidelines, tracks that are fully or majority AI-generated are not permitted on the platform. The new system will help identify this material during ingestion, before it reaches Beatport’s catalogue, with affected rightsholders notified directly.
AI-assisted music will still be allowed, provided the finished track is majority human-created. These releases will be tagged during upload, giving Beatport’s curation team visibility over the use of AI when selecting music to feature.
For DJs, nothing changes in terms of buying, streaming or playing music through Beatport. The significance is further upstream: Beatport is putting additional checks around the music entering its catalogue while drawing a clear distinction between producers using AI as a creative tool and music generated predominantly by AI.
The decision also appears to reflect the views of Beatport’s DJ community. In a recent survey, 60% of users said they would not play AI-generated tracks in their sets. Of those, 77% cited a preference for supporting human creators.
Only 8% said they were currently open to playing AI-generated music, while a further 13% would consider doing so if artists and labels were fairly compensated.
Beatport’s CEO said the distinction comes down to AI assisting the creative process rather than replacing it:
Beatdapp partnership expands beyond streaming fraud
Beatport’s relationship with Beatdapp initially focused on identifying fraudulent streaming activity. Under the expanded partnership, the company will now deploy Beatdapp’s fraud detection and AI music detection systems alongside each other.
Beatdapp says its technology can distinguish between AI-generated and AI-assisted tracks and will continue to evolve as generative music technology becomes more sophisticated.
The move has also been backed by the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), which said Beatport’s approach aligns with its AI Principles by keeping human creativity at the centre while recognising the different ways AI can be used in music production.
Beatport has published its updated position on artificial intelligence, setting out how it intends to handle AI-generated and AI-assisted music as the technology develops.
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