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What do Google's Gemini API pages say about ownership, marking and limits of Lyria 3.5 music output?

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For Lyria 3.5 via the Gemini API, the docs say all generated audio carries a SynthID watermark and that prompts requesting specific artist voices or copyrighted lyrics are blocked. The Gemini API Additional Terms (effective March 23, 2026) say Google won't claim ownership of generated content and may generate similar content for others. The pages read give no training-data statement for Lyria and no music-specific commercial-use tiers; the DeepMind page lists artist partnerships but no licensing detail.

For Lyria 3.5 via the Gemini API, the docs say all generated audio carries a SynthID watermark and that prompts requesting specific artist voices or copyrighted lyrics are blocked. The Gemini API Additional Terms (effective March 23, 2026) say Google won't claim ownership of generated content and may generate similar content for others. The pages read give no training-data statement for Lyria and no music-specific commercial-use tiers; the DeepMind page lists artist partnerships but no licensing detail. Curator qualifications: Verified. These are general Gemini API terms, not music-specific; no training-data or commercial-tier text was found for Lyria. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/music-generation",
      "note": "Use of Generated Content; docs"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms",
      "note": "Use of Generated Content; docs"
    }
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] For Lyria 3.5 via the Gemini API, the docs say all generated audio carries a SynthID watermark and that prompts requesting specific artist voices or copyrighted lyrics are blocked. The Gemini API Additional Terms (effective March 23, 2026) say Google won't claim ownership of generated content and may generate similar content for others. The pages read give no training-data statement for Lyria and no music-specific commercial-use tiers; the DeepMind page lists artist partnerships but no licensing detail. · locator: Use of Generated Content; docs source

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