Nathan Briggs
AI Music Generation Copyright Law: What Germany's Section 16 and 19a Do That U.S. Fair Use Can't
You have probably asked yourself some version of this question in a conference room with the general counsel and two outside firms billing by the six-minute increment: if an AI music company is on the…
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Spotify Conversational AI: Where "Just Ask For What You Want" Holds Up—And Where It Breaks
The advice going around the streaming business right now is clean enough to fit on a slide: the search box is finished, and the future of discovery is a conversation.
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AI Music Generation Won't Make You a Musician — And That's the Point
The most useful thing about AI music generation is that it will not turn you into a musician. That is not a knock. It is the entire reason it matters to you.
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Does Ticket Pricing Transparency Actually Help Venues, or Just Give Ticketmaster Cover?
A promoter I know in the Midwest read the headline about her state's new ticketing law twice, then asked me the only question that mattered to her business: "Is this going to help me, or is this going…
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The 40% Problem: A Platform Review of Work-in-Progress Sharing for Artists Who Are Done Begging the Algorithm
There's a number that gets quoted in artist Discords until it loses its edges, and it's worth slowing down on.
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Unified Voice and Lip-Sync in AI Video Generation: Can One Platform Replace Your Five-Tool Stack?
A 14-language product launch, one talking-head avatar, and an 80-millisecond lip-sync drift that nobody caught until the German cut hit final QA.
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