AXIS 01
Release & debut
Putting the song out under your name on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok — via a distributor. No copyright registration required.
✓ ESSENTIALLY WORLDWIDE
AXIS 02
Rights & royalties
Whether the law recognizes your copyright, lets you register it, and lets a collecting society pay you. This is where countries diverge.
◑ DEPENDS ON COUNTRY + HUMAN INPUT
The lever: everywhere below, the line is human authorship. A bare prompt to an AI is usually not protected. A song with real human work — written/edited lyrics, creative selection, arrangement, curation — crosses the threshold in most of these countries. WIA songs are human-directed originals, which is what makes the green column possible.
Axis 01
Release: it's about the platform, not the country
No major streaming service or distributor bans AI music. The only real variable is each platform's disclosure / recommendation policy.
Axis 02
Rights: country by country
Can you register and protect an AI-assisted work — and collect royalties? Sorted best-first. Click any source to verify.