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.
AI Music Generation Rules Aren't Coming From Lawmakers — They're Already in Your Upload Form
The first time regulation touched a session I was on, it was not a courtroom. It was a dropdown menu.
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AI Vishing Attacks and the Three-Second Voice: What That Number Actually Measures
Three seconds. That is the number on the box — the length of reference audio a current voice-cloning model claims it needs to speak in a specific person's voice.
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What a Sold-Out Tour Actually Does to Your Streaming Analytics
736,000 tickets across a UK and Ireland run, a livestream that reportedly set a platform record, and a press release built to be quoted.
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Anatomy of a Catalogue Acquisition: How the Sakamoto Deals Actually Move, Step by Step
The cue is forty-odd seconds of brittle synth-piano over a pad that never resolves the way your ear expects, and close to every supervisor working in trailers has temped with it at least once.
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The Chart Rules Coming for AI-Generated Music Are Not What You Think
The dropdown appeared halfway through a delivery form, sitting between the ISRC field and the release date: Was AI used in the creation of this recording? Three options, no definitions, no tooltip.
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How a Conflict of Interest Forms Inside an AI Music Marketplace
The claim landed on a Tuesday. Forty seconds of a low, detuned pad under a trailer cut for a small studio — a loop I had licensed from a mid-size marketplace six months earlier, non-exclusive…
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Bob Moog's Most Durable Invention Was One Volt Per Octave
The most durable thing Bob Moog ever built was not a sound. It was an agreement about a voltage. One volt, one octave.
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The Uncomfortable Math of AI-Generated Music Economics
I ran the experiment because I was tired of arguing about it in comment threads. Last winter I generated a batch of lo-fi keys-and-tape-hiss instrumentals — 82 BPM, F minor, the kind of thing that…
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AI Music Generation Broke the Oldest Rule in Music Video Production
The edit was locked at 2:47. The track ran 3:12, and the only place it wanted to end was a long ringing decay that arrived eleven seconds after the last shot.
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