This article explains how to declare generative AI use in the FUGA Interface, which answers to choose for your recordings, compositions, videos, and artwork, and how Digital Service Provider (DSP) requirements affect delivery.
Disclosure Requirements
During the initial pilot, FUGA's declaration fields are optional but strongly encouraged, and any declarations you provide must accurately describe your content. Apple Music and YouTube require AI disclosure under their applicable partner requirements, meaning optional fields in FUGA do not waive those obligations. The pilot does not change your responsibility to hold the necessary rights or comply with the Downtown Music Content Policy and applicable DSP rules, as declaring AI use does not make otherwise ineligible content eligible for distribution.
When to Declare AI Use
You must declare AI use when generative AI creates or helps create creative content used in the final resource, which includes music, lyrics, synthetic voices, instrumental parts, images, and video. AI used only for technical processing, such as minor pitch correction, noise reduction, or mastering, does not require disclosure when it introduces no new creative content. AI-generated ideas developed into the final work count as a creative contribution, while unused suggestions do not.
Resources Covered by AI Declarations
Each resource has its own declaration, and an answer for one resource does not determine the answers for the others. For example, a human performance of entirely AI-written music and lyrics can have No for Audio and Yes, 100% for Composition. Lyrics are included in Composition; there is no separate lyrics declaration in this phase, so if AI created the lyrics and a person wrote the music, or the reverse, choose Yes, partially for Composition.
| Resource | What the declaration covers | Where it belongs |
| Audio | The sound recording | Audio asset |
| Video (audio) | The sound in a video | Video asset |
| Video (visual) | The visual content of a video | Video asset |
| Composition | The underlying music and any accompanying lyrics | Audio or video asset |
| Artwork | The release artwork | Product |
Choosing Declaration Answers
Every resource starts at Not set, which does not declare that no AI was used; it simply means no declaration has been provided. For Yes, partially, a follow-up describes the nature of the AI contribution: AI-generated means AI created the resource's main creative content (with some human contributions), while AI-assisted means the resource is mainly human-created with a limited AI contribution. AI-generated is preselected for a partial declaration; review that selection and change it to AI-assisted when appropriate. Yes, 100% implies AI-generated and does not require a written description of AI use.
| Answer | Meaning |
| Not set | You have not provided a declaration. |
| Unknown | You do not know whether generative AI contributed to the resource's creative content. |
| No | Generative AI did not contribute to the resource's creative content. |
| Yes, partially | The resource combines human-created content with creative contributions from generative AI. |
| Yes, 100% | The resource's creative content was entirely generated by AI. |
Setting AI Declarations in the FUGA Interface
Open the audio or video asset to declare its Audio, Composition, or Video resources, or open the product for release artwork.
Expand the AI Usage section.
Choose an answer for each resource.
For Yes, partially, review the preselected contribution type and choose AI-generated or AI-assisted as appropriate.
Review and save; changes save automatically, so ensure each answer describes the final resource.
Copying Declarations
When moving or duplicating catalog items, it is important to review copied declarations against the target content to ensure accuracy.
| Action | Behavior |
| Copy fields between assets | The AI declaration option copies answers and contribution types from the source asset to selected target assets. |
| Duplicate an asset | Existing answers and contribution types are copied, including Not set and AI-assisted. |
| Clone catalog items | Answers and contribution types are copied in either direction between a Primary Account and a Subaccount. |
DSP Policies and Delivery Requirements
An AI label does not automatically disable all monetization, but providing a declaration in FUGA does not guarantee acceptance, placement, or monetization on a DSP. A saved declaration does not by itself establish that unlisted destinations have received AI metadata; for YouTube and other DSPs not listed in the delivery table, please contact your FUGA representative about the required submission process.
| DSP | AI Content Policy & Delivered Metadata |
| Apple Music | Requires disclosure when AI generates a material portion of a recording, composition, artwork, or video visuals. FUGA delivers the corresponding disclosure when set to Yes, 100%. |
| Spotify | Offers optional AI contributor credits. FUGA delivers an AI contribution credit for the whole recording when Audio is Yes, 100%, and an AI-generated Composer credit when Composition is Yes, 100%. |
| YouTube | Requires music-partner disclosure under applicable partner requirements. Accepts Fully, Partly, and No declarations. |
| Qobuz | Contractual rules prohibit delivery of 100% AI-generated content. Applies AI labels and restrictions on recommendations and search visibility. |
| Beatport | Does not accept music wholly or substantially generated by AI. Assistive processing is treated separately. |
| Deezer | Excludes AI-generated music from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. |
| TIDAL | Recordings identified as wholly AI-generated are ineligible for royalty attribution. AI-generated compositions alone do not trigger this rule. |
Changing Declarations and Quality Control
You can update a declaration in the AI Usage section at any time, though a saved change does not by itself confirm that a DSP has received or applied an update. Apple Music supports replacing or clearing previously delivered AI tags; contact your FUGA representative about delivering corrections for content already distributed. Additionally, FUGA may introduce AI disclosure checks through Quality Control (QC) after reviewing the pilot phase.
AI Artist Identities
The AI Usage section does not collect artist-identity declarations. Spotify's AI Persona designation concerns an artist whose public identity represents an AI-generated photorealistic person; using AI to make music does not by itself make an artist an AI Persona.
Support
If you require help with AI declarations, YouTube submission processes, or specific DSP delivery requirements, contact your FUGA representative or reach out via our support channel.