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Andrew Pemberton
Policy
South Korea Music Regulation: Would Pre-Release Screening Actually Reach Your Catalog?
A distributor I know — mid-size, moves K-pop B-sides and a lot of indie electronic into Asian DSPs — sent me a two-line message last month.
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Music Tourism
The Music Tourism Number Everyone's Quoting — And What It Leaves Out
Start with the headline that ran everywhere: music tourism spending in the UK grew by double digits year over year, and the trade press had its lede before the report finished loading.
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Ai Licensing
Reading the Room: What a Single Executive Appointment Tells You About Merlin's AI Licensing Play
A press release lands in your inbox at 9am on a Tuesday. Someone you've half-heard-of takes a title you've never seen before at an organization you license through. Most people archive it.
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Ai Licensing
AI Licensing and Rights: What Actually Protects an Artist's Voice When a Model Can Clone It
Last month I took a vocal stem from a friend — a singer who's released two records and is rightly paranoid — and ran it through a consumer voice-cloning pipeline.
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