---
title: "Music synchronisation licence with AI training and generation reservation"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/music-sync-licence-ai-reservation"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a39-music-sync-licence-ai-reservation"
area_id: "A39"
kind: "agreement"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Music synchronisation licence with AI training and generation reservation

> Synchronisation licence for a musical work and sound recording in a film, series, game or advertisement that also reserves text-and-data-mining and AI training rights, bans voice or style cloning and stem extraction,…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/music-sync-licence-ai-reservation  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

Synchronisation licence for a musical work and sound recording in a film, series, game or advertisement that also reserves text-and-data-mining and AI training rights, bans voice or style cloning and stem extraction, and requires labelling of AI-altered versions.

## Key facts

- Kind: Agreement. A contract between two or more parties.
- Practice area: [Sports & Entertainment Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia, European Union
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 7 authorities it cites, for Australia and European Union.

## When to use it

Use when a publisher, label or independent artist licenses music for synchronisation with visual media. It covers both the composition and the master only where the licensor controls both; otherwise use separate licences. Public performance is licensed separately.

## How AI may be used

AI can produce the cue and usage schedule and compare the licensee's paper with this licence, but the AI reservation, moral rights consents and the split between composition and master rights need a lawyer's review.

**AI may:**

- Turn the cue sheet and scene description into the Licensed Use schedule.
- Compare the licensee's draft with this licence and list departures.
- Check the chain of title documents supplied for gaps (writers, publishers, label, featured performers).

**AI must not:**

- Must not be given the licensed recording, stems or lyrics.
- Must not decide who controls the composition or master rights.
- Must not generate alternative versions, edits or sound-alikes.

**The lawyer checks:**

- The licensor controls the rights it grants (each writer's share and the master), or the licence is split.
- The AI reservation is expressed in the licence and, for online content, in machine-readable form where the EU opt-out matters.
- Moral rights consents are limited to the edits described.
- Public performance and any mechanical rights are dealt with separately.

## Authorities

- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s 31 (copyright in musical and literary works)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)
- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s 85 (copyright in sound recordings)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)
- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s 196 (assignments and licences)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)
- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) Pt IX (moral rights)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)
- [Attorney-General, media release ruling out a text and data mining exception (26 October 2025)](https://ministers.ag.gov.au/media-centre/albanese-government-ensure-australia-prepared-future-copyright-challenges-emerging-ai-26-10-2025)
- [Directive (EU) 2019/790 art 4(3) (reservation of text and data mining rights)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj)
- [Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) art 53(1)(c) (general-purpose AI providers' copyright compliance policy)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/music-sync-licence-ai-reservation and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*