As AI continues to reshape the music industry, one thing is clearer than ever. Protecting human creativity has to happen before exploitation occurs, not after.
That’s why we’re excited to announce our latest partnership with ArtyShield, the AI trust infrastructure platform built to help artists, labels, vocalists, and rights holders protect their music and voices from unauthorized AI use. Here’s everything you need to know…
Symphonic Partners with ArtyShield to Help Artists Protect Their Music from Unauthorized AI Exploitation
About ArtyShield
ArtyShield is an AI trust infrastructure platform designed to protect creative work in the age of generative AI. Founded by a university research team specializing in AI security, music protection, and trustworthy AI, ArtyShield brings research-backed technology to artists, labels, distributors, and rights holders.
This kind of protection is becoming increasingly important as the industry evolves. A song, vocal, or catalog asset can be copied, cloned, scraped, or misrepresented before the creator even realizes it, and it’s already too late. ArtyShield helps creators take a more proactive approach by providing the tools needed to protect their music before release and verify content before it becomes part of a catalog or campaign.
“MusicShield was built around a simple idea: artists deserve meaningful protection before their work becomes part of AI systems,” says Jian Liu, Founder/CEO at ArtyShield. “Working with Symphonic allows us to bring that protection directly into the release workflow, making it easier for creators to safeguard their music while also giving them tools to verify authenticity and protect their voices.”
ArtyShield is backed by Google for Startups and AWS Activate, and is actively building trust and rights-protection infrastructure for the music ecosystem. This includes ArtyShield Certify™, a certification workflow designed to give artists verifiable proof that their work is human-created.
ArtyShield is also preparing to release additional services for identifying potential copyright infringement across large catalogs, even when tracks have been significantly altered through speed changes, pitch shifting, heavy editing, or AI-based remixing, as well as technology to identify AI-generated singing vocals that may closely resemble existing vocalists.
Together, these services are designed to help platforms and rights holders support copyright, licensing, and artist-identity compliance workflows.
What does this mean for Symphonic clients?
Through this partnership, Symphonic clients can access ArtyShield’s tools directly from SymphonicMS through a seamless single sign-on integration.
ArtyShield’s suite of features includes:
- MusicShield: Protects tracks from being used to train AI models without consent, while keeping the audio quality intact and inaudible to human listeners.
- VeriTune: Detects whether a track may be AI-generated and provides explainable results beyond a simple yes-or-no scan.
- VoiceShield: Helps protect vocal performances from unauthorized cloning, synthesis, and synthetic voice misuse.
- VeriVoice: Helps identify whether regular speech recordings may be AI-generated, cloned, or synthetically manipulated, supporting voice authenticity and trust workflows.
- ArtyShield Certify™: Coming soon, this certification workflow will give artists verifiable proof that their work is human-created for licensing, legal, and platform needs.
Looking Ahead…
AI may be creating new opportunities across the industry, but it’s also creating new risks. Artists need ways to protect their work from being used without their permission, labels need tools to review incoming tracks, and distributors need better systems to support transparency across the ecosystem.
“The conversation around AI shouldn’t begin after someone’s work has already been copied or misused,” says Jorge Brea, CEO of Symphonic. “MusicShield is exciting because it gives creators a practical way to protect their music before that happens. We believe AI can create tremendous opportunities for our industry, but those opportunities have to be built on consent, transparency, and respect for the people creating the music in the first place.”
With ArtyShield, Symphonic clients can protect their tracks before they ever go live, scan submissions before adding them to a catalog, and help protect their voice from being cloned or used in ways they never approved.
AI is here; it’s moving fast, and it’s already creating problems for artists who are just trying to protect the art they have made. This isn’t about being anti-tech; it’s about making sure human artists are not left playing defense while their music, voice, or identity gets used without permission.
Now Available Through SymphonicMS
Symphonic clients can now access ArtyShield directly through the Client Offerings section in SymphonicMS. Getting started is free, with paid tiers available for clients who need deeper protection and expanded access to ArtyShield’s tools.
📌 Ready to try it out? Log in to your SymphonicMS account to check it out today.
