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.
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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What AI Regulation Actually Asks For: A Songwriter's Ledger, One Motion at a Time
I spent a Tuesday afternoon doing something unglamorous: reading a royalty statement out loud to nobody, line by line, trying to find the number that matters.
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