Benjamin Drake
AI Music Labeling Arrives — Now Comes the Hard Part of Making It Mean Anything
Open your DAW, drop in an AI-generated bass loop at 92 BPM, run it through a hardware compressor, replay the melody by hand because the render came out mushy, then resample the whole thing and chop…
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AI Music Video Generators Won't Fix Your Rollout — But They'll Feed the Feeds That Do
Here is a number worth sitting with: a single track release now routinely needs somewhere between eight and twelve distinct visual assets to cover the surfaces where it has to live.
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AI Music Generation Has a Consent Problem, and Black Artists Are Paying the Bill
The problem with AI music generation is not that the music sounds bad. Plenty of it sounds fine. The problem is the ledger — the list of names whose work went into the machine, who never got asked…
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Micro-Dramas and Your Catalog: Where the "Get In Early" Advice Holds and Where It Cracks
The advice making the rounds in every A&R group chat right now is tidy enough to fit on a Post-it: get your catalog into micro-dramas before the format saturates.
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Voice Trademark Protection: What the New Filings Actually Buy an Artist
Last week I spent an afternoon trying to clone a voice you'd recognize in two syllables. I won't name the singer, but the source was four minutes of clean a cappella, 48kHz, no reverb tail to confuse…
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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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