College programs in Music Technology and Audio Engineering prepare students with a wide variety of creative and technical skills to meet the needs of a dynamic industry. While technical skills training is an important central piece of such programs, students are also introduced to the ethical and legal frameworks that guide and govern work in an increasingly globalized digital world. Traditional academic integrity policies and discourses are often inadequate when considering the complex and often contradictory legal landscape that these students will experience. Moreover, recent developments in automated content recognition, as well as content generation itself, have radically changed what it means to do creative work and claim ownership over musical products and digital assets. This chapter explores emerging global issues in the college-level training of digital audio creators, producers, and engineers in British Columbia, Canada. While the specific legal requirements to which songwriters and musicians must attend have arisen from an increasingly competitive and litigious field, the principles of negotiated ownership and rights management may have wider application across disciplines as industries and workforce training increasingly value collaborative work. With text generation and automated content authorship now emerging as a concern for those working with the written word, the sonic arts may offer some lessons, as well as sobering warnings, about the future of automation in a world of human creativity.