Imogen Hale
Imogen Hale reports on the business side of AI music — licensing terms, royalties, and copyright — reading the fine print so working creators don't get burned.
Why Latin Music Acquisitions Are the Cleverest Bet in the Catalog Business
Here's the claim, stated flat so you can argue with it later: the investors circling Latin catalogs right now are not buying nostalgia.
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The Copyright Infringement Case That Vanished: What X and the Music Publishers Didn't Tell You
I spent a Tuesday morning refreshing a court docket, which is not how I planned to spend it. The National Music Publishers' Association's copyright infringement suit against X — the platform formerly…
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Generative AI Labeling Won't Save You From the Flood — But It Might Tell You Where the Water Came From
The pitch is seductive because it is simple: put a tag on the track, and the listener knows what they are hearing.
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The Festival Industry Crisis Hiding Inside One Number
Start with the number the trade press kept repeating last cycle: dozens of UK festivals gone in a single year.
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Music Education Conferences in India Were Never Built for the Teacher in the Room
Picture a music teacher — she runs the vocal program at a school in Pune, forty kids across three grade levels — standing at the back of a hotel ballroom in Bengaluru.
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The One Number Every AI Music Generation Acquisition Is Really Buying: Distribution Reach
Read enough acquisition announcements in this corner of the industry and you notice the same tell: there is always one number in the second paragraph.
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AI Music Labeling Standards: Who Decided, and What They Actually Require
A checkbox showed up in an upload flow last year that read something close to "This track was created using AI." No tooltip. No definition.
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AI Labeling Standards: How Disclosure Actually Moves Through Your Distribution Pipeline
A track lands in a distributor's ingest queue on a Tuesday. Somewhere between the DDEX feed and the store page, it picks up a tag that says part of it was made with AI.
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What the AI Voice Generation Valuations Are Actually Pricing
A number moved through the private markets recently that is worth sitting with. A leading AI voice generation company was reported, via the usual "people familiar" channels, to be in early talks…
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