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NFC Technology and the One-Tap Wallet: What That "Chart-Eligible" Sale Actually Counts
A fan at a merch table taps their phone against a vinyl sleeve. Half a second later, a pass drops into their digital wallet, a download code resolves in the background, and — if every condition lines…
The Licensing Question Nobody at the Label Wants to Answer About AI Music Generation
A sync deal I watched fall apart last year didn't die over money or taste. The placement was approved, the spot was cut, the music supervisor loved the track.
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When an Artist's Catalog Becomes AI Music Training Datasets, Who Said Yes?
Last fall a Grammy-winning singer posted that hundreds of her songs — including tracks she had never released — appeared to have been swept into a generative music model without anyone calling her…
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Reading Spotify Expansion Like a Map: What Office Openings Tell You That Press Releases Don't
A platform announces a new office in a country it was, not so long ago, publicly at odds with. There were takedown demands, a regulator's letter, a few months when the catalog felt politically…
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When SZA Said No: AI Music Generation and the Fight Over Training Data
Last month I fed eight bars of my own singing — a scratch vocal from a film cue I scored in 2016 — into a voice-cloning tool to see what would happen.
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AI Music Detection Tools Promise to Clean Up Your Playlists. Here's What They Can Actually Tell You.
A detector once told me a track on my running playlist was machine-generated. I'd seen the band play it in a basement in Oakland two years earlier — three people, one of whom broke a string.
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AI Music Training and the Consent Problem: What Your Catalog Is Actually Worth
A vocalist I know got a screenshot from a fan last spring. It was a forum thread listing the records an AI model had reportedly been trained on, and her name was on it — a specific number of songs…
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