The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has profoundly transformed the landscape of music creation, consumption, and education. Tools such as Suno, Udio, MusicLM, AIVA, and OpenAI’s Jukebox enable the automated generation of music compositions, challenging traditional understandings of creativity, authorship, and ownership. With the help of AI, everyone can be a composer. While these technologies offer exciting pedagogical opportunities to enrich music learning, they also introduce complex ethical and legal challenges that remain largely unaddressed within educational settings. Indeed, it is naturally concerning that the largest music copyright lawsuits of all time are now ongoing against AI companies (e.g. Recording Industry Association of America v. Suno). These issues become especially salient in classrooms where students and educators interact with and develop AI-generated works, often without sufficient legal literacy or institutional guidance. How confident can educators be about “fair use” in these unprecedented situations they now encounter with students who use music AI? As such, there is a pressing need to equip music educators and learners with a nuanced understanding of the legal principles governing AI music technologies, enabling responsible, informed, and ethical engagement.Drawing upon interdisciplinary legal scholarship, music education theory, and technology studies, this paper outlines a conceptual framework for integrating awareness of Music Law into music education curricula. The framework aims to bridge disciplinary silos by fostering collaboration between legal experts, music educators, and technologists. It positions Music Law not merely as a matter of compliance but as a transformative lens through which to reimagine music pedagogy in the digital age. In our view, the ethical and legal aspects of music education have become so important that they can no longer be viewed as marginal concerns for music teacher education. This paper argues for the urgent development and formal recognition of Music Law as a distinct field of study, essential to contemporary music education, and as foundational training for music teachers and other music professionals. By embedding awareness of legal literacy into their required curricula and professional development programs, institutions can empower future musicians and educators with the critical tools needed to navigate the evolving digital music environment, while also contributing to the development of robust ethical standards and policies that promise to strengthen our field.