Lang Van, Inc. – Public Notice of Non-Consent for AI Training and Remix Use
Posted on: June 12, 2025
Filed under: AI, Copyright, Music Licensing, Public Notices
🚫 Public Notice: Lang Van, Inc. Opts Out of AI Use
Lang Van, Inc. is the exclusive rights holder to a significant body of Vietnamese music, including:
- Over 33,000 sound recordings
- More than 1,000 original musical compositions
- Content distributed under 130+ record label imprints, spanning traditional, contemporary, and cross-generational works
We are issuing this formal public notice to assert our non-consent for any use of our copyrighted material in:
- AI or machine learning training models
- Remixing, transformation, or generative audio processing
- Derivative works based on Lang Van-owned content
- Scraping of lyrics, composition structures, metadata, or recordings
🔒 Ownership Verification
Lang Van, Inc. maintains full documentation of ownership, including:
- U.S. copyright registrations
- Metadata archives
- Historical chain-of-title records
A cryptographically timestamped SHA-256 fingerprint of our metadata catalog was generated via OpenTimestamps:
- File: LangVan_Metadata_Hash_Log.txt
- Timestamp Date: June 11, 2025
- SHA-256:
cd430f7961c0ce154bc45ee09b43351b96c686b369a1b52512727112effc94d5
⚠️ What You Must Do
We hereby direct any companies, developers, or platforms to:
- Deny all ingestion or processing of Lang Van’s copyrighted materials
- Remove any existing AI-generated or AI-trained content based on our recordings or compositions
- Exclude Lang Van data from all current or future datasets, remix engines, or training models
This directive is legally binding under U.S. and international copyright law. Violation will be considered willful infringement and subject to statutory damages, injunctive relief, and commercial restitution.
📨 Response & Compliance
Written confirmation of compliance is requested within 10 business days.
Questions regarding catalog verification under NDA may be directed to:
Benny Cardenas
Director, Digital Music Operations & Sync Licensing
Lang Van, Inc.
📧 benny@langvan.com
📤 CC: copyrights@langvan.com, info@langvan.com