Transparency & Rights | Found Wanting

AI Disclosure

All music in the Found Wanting project is produced using a pipeline of tools: Suno (AI audio generation from text prompts), Logic Pro (human editing, arranging, crossfading, and mixing), Pedalboard (mastering: EQ, compression, saturation, and limiting), and ffmpeg (format conversion, loudness normalization, and metadata embedding). Suno is used under a paid subscription that grants commercial use rights and assigns output ownership to the subscriber. Logic Pro is a commercially licensed DAW used for direct human creative intervention on the audio.

Album artwork is produced using Google Gemini via a Google Workspace enterprise account. Google’s terms do not claim ownership of generated content and impose no commercial-use restriction. See the Album Cover Art section below for the full lineage of each cover.

Creative direction, lyrics (adapted from the KJV Bible), song arrangement, and production are by Taig Mac Carthy. Lyric videos are built with custom software (Remotion + React + TypeScript) written by Taig Mac Carthy, with manual word-level timing synchronisation. Anthropic Claude is used as a secondary aid for creative planning, content decisions, and software development.

Album Cover Art

The cover for each album is a reproduction of a famous religious painting that has been physically stolen from its custodian institution. All three originals predate 1700 and are in the public domain in every relevant jurisdiction. The covers are AI-enhanced from publicly available scans of the originals, processed through Google Gemini (via a Google Workspace enterprise account whose terms permit commercial use and assert no ownership claim over generated content).

Album	Source painting	Painter	Year	Theft history
The Son	Christ in the Storm in the Sea of Galilee	Rembrandt van Rijn	1633	Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, USA) on 18 March 1990. Still missing.
The Father	Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence	Caravaggio	1609	Stolen from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo (Palermo, Italy) on 18 October 1969. Still missing.
The Holy Spirit	Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Ghent Altarpiece)	Jan and Hubert van Eyck	1432	Stolen by Nazi forces from Saint Bavo’s Cathedral (Ghent, Belgium) in 1942; recovered in 1945. The companion panel The Just Judges was stolen separately in 1934 and remains missing.

Copyright on these works expired centuries before the thefts; the source images are unrestricted. Theft does not affect copyright status, only physical access. The cover-art programme is intended to return these images to circulation alongside the recordings.

Copyright

The legal status of copyright in AI-generated music is evolving and varies by jurisdiction. The following reflects the project’s position:

Element	Source	Copyright status
Music (audio)	Suno (AI generation) + Logic Pro (human editing & mixing) + Pedalboard (mastering)	Varies by jurisdiction. AI-generated component rights assigned to creator under Suno’s paid tier. Human editing in Logic Pro and mastering in Pedalboard constitute independent creative input.
Lyrics	KJV Bible (public domain) + human adaptations	Public domain source text. Adaptations are human-authored.
Album artwork	Google Gemini	Varies by jurisdiction. No ownership claimed by Google.
Lyric videos	Human-authored (Taig Mac Carthy)	Audiovisual compilations with substantial human authorship in visual design, timing, and arrangement.
Software	Human-authored (Taig Mac Carthy)	Fully human-authored. Standard copyright protection.

Trademark

“Found Wanting” is used as a band name identifying a source of entertainment services and sound recordings. Trademark registration is pending.

Credits

Role	Credit
Artist	Found Wanting
Created & produced by	Taig Mac Carthy
Music produced with	Suno (AI generation), Logic Pro (editing & mixing), Pedalboard (mastering), ffmpeg (encoding)
Album art produced with	Google Gemini (via Google Workspace)
Lyrics	Bible (KJV / sung adaptations)
Lyric videos built with	Remotion + React (by Taig Mac Carthy)
AI planning & development aid	Anthropic Claude

Contact

For rights inquiries, licensing, or legal matters, contact Taig Mac Carthy at taig@foundwant.ing.