Elevenlabs now lets you sell AI music you don't own

Elevenlabs has launched a music marketplace where users can publish and sell tracks created with the company's ElevenCreative AI music model.

Users create a track, upload it to the marketplace, and get paid when others download, remix, or license it. Elevenlabs says it has already paid out more than $11 million to creators through its Voice Marketplace, and the same model now applies to music. According to the company, nearly 14 million songs have already been generated with its music model.

Tracks come in three license tiers—Social Media, Paid Marketing, and Offline—targeting content creators, marketing teams, game developers, and event organizers. One of the first users on the platform is producer Patrick Jordan-Patrikios, who has worked with artists like Sia and Nicki Minaj, Elevenlabs says.

AI-generated music still has no copyright protection

How Elevenlabs handles the copyright question is another matter entirely. AI-generated music—just like AI-generated text and images—isn't legally protected because there's no human author in the traditional sense. That's a key difference from the company's voice clone marketplace, where users own the rights to their own voice. Current legal thinking suggests this won't change anytime soon, so anyone selling these tracks should carefully verify usage rights and their local legal situation.

According to Elevenlabs' "Music Terms," the company doesn't guarantee exclusivity for generated tracks, either. Other users could end up with identical or very similar results, and you have no rights in or to that third-party output as well, obviously. The service ships with zero guarantees of legal protection; all risk falls on the user. Using names of real artists, song titles, or lyrics from existing songs as prompts is off-limits.