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Can You Run AI Music Generation Locally for a Live DJ Set? Magenta, Stable Audio, and an FLX4 on the Desk
You turn the filter knob on the FLX4, and there's a beat — not a musical one, a dead one — before the audio answers. Three hundred milliseconds, maybe four hundred. In a studio that's nothing.
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AI Voice Technology and the Money You Haven't Spent Yet
A product person I know described her company's budgeting app to me like this: "We've basically solved impulse spending.
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When IP Licensing Stops Being a File and Starts Being a Set of Rules
The advice everyone gives you is clean and old: clear the rights, take delivery of the assets, keep the paperwork, and you are covered.
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Infinite Reality and the New IP Licensing Question: When You License a Character's Behavior, Not Just Its Face
A brand I know cleared a beloved animated character for a holiday campaign. Likeness: approved. The catalog of pre-written lines: approved, lawyered, locked.
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Venture Capital Exits in Music Tech Don't Look Like Exits Anymore
The healthiest venture capital exits in music technology right now are the ones where nothing visible changes. No logo swap. No acquirer press tour.
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Physical Music Packaging Is Doing More Work Than You Think — and the Evidence Is Thinner Than the Sermon
Last spring a friend who runs a 200-capacity post-punk label sent me a 40-second clip: a fan, somewhere in Leeds, peeling the shrink off a clear-with-black-splatter LP, tilting it under a desk lamp…
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When an Artist Disowns His Own AI Voice: A Field Guide to AI Music Generation Ethics
The most credible voice in the fight over unauthorized AI vocals isn't a label lawyer, a senator, or an ethics-panel keynote.
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