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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, March 18, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.

Shutterstock offers AI-generated, royalty-free music through technology acquired from Amper Music in 2020. Users can generate original music tracks by selecting genre, mood, and instrumentation, without any musical training required.

Details

Shutterstock acquired Amper Music in November 2020 to strengthen its capabilities in AI-powered music creation and content search, with Amper's technology enabling users to create and customize original music using over one million individual audio samples recorded across thousands of unique instruments. Amper's standalone creation tool has since been folded into Shutterstock's platform, and users can access over 100,000 exclusive Amper-generated tracks directly from Shutterstock. he music library has also been licensed to OpenAI as training data under Shutterstock's expanded 2023 partnership.

Products affected

Shutterstock Music library

Sources & Evidence

News Article

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OpenAI secures license to access training data from Shutterstock… including its music libraries

Music Business Worldwide·Jul 2023

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/openai-secures-license-to-access-training-data-from-shutterstock-including-its-music-libraries/

Company Disclosure

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Shutterstock Announces Acquisition of Amper Music

Shutterstock·Nov 2020

https://investor.shutterstock.com/news-releases/news-release-details/shutterstock-announces-acquisition-amper-music

Other practices by Shutterstock

Data AnalysisThrough its 2021 acquisition of three AI companies under the Shutterstock.AI subsidiary (Pattern89, Datasine, and Shotzr), Shutterstock offers AI tools that analyze the visual and compositional elements of ad creatives and predict their performance before a campaign goes live.ModerationShutterstock uses automated AI systems to flag and filter offensive, adult, or policy-violating content from its contributor-submitted library and from AI-generated outputs on its platform. These safeguards also include multi-layered controls to prevent generation of harmful content via its AI tools.RecommendationShutterstock uses a custom-built neural network to power visual similarity search and reverse image search across its entire library, allowing users to find matching content by uploading a photo rather than typing keywords. This applies to both images and video.

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