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AI-Generated Music Policy Is Now a Royalty-Pool Problem: What Distributors and Labels Actually Have to Do
A track lands in a distributor's ingestion queue at 2 a.m. — a moody downtempo instrumental, 82 BPM, F minor, delivered as a 48kHz WAV with stems.
What GPS Trackers on a Tour Van Tell Us About K-Pop Industry Ethics
Last month a client sent me a phone recording of a fan chant from a stadium show and asked whether I could clean it up into a crowd bed for a promo edit. Standard request.
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Studio Time vs. AI Music Generation: What a Track Actually Costs You in 2024
The number everyone quotes is ten thousand dollars. That's the figure that gets tossed around when someone wants to make the case for AI music: a real studio session runs you five figures, and a…
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Can You Trademark a Voice? The Idea Is Older and Thinner Than You Think
Somewhere in a filing queue at the trademark office, an artist is trying to register the sound of their own throat.
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Venue Ownership Is the Quiet Engine of Music Industry M&A
There is a persistent belief among people who model live-entertainment companies for a living: that the venue itself is the boring part. The brand has the pricing power.
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AI Music Detection Is a Forensic Craft Now — Here's How the Pros Actually Do It
A country single crossed an A&R friend's desk last winter with a backstory that checked out on paper: a regional act, a clutch of streams, a label-ready master at 48kHz. The voice had grit.
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AI Coding Agents Write Faster Than You Can Read. So Why Are You Still the Bottleneck?
A pull request landed in my queue last Tuesday at 9:14 a.m. The agent had written it in about ninety seconds: a refactor of a payment-retry path, four files touched, 230 lines changed, a commit…
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