THE INDUSTRY
Copyright rulings, Content ID, label drama, and what the machine age actually means for anyone releasing music. The analysis, minus the panic.
The AI Music Industry Stopped Suing and Started Buying: What Labels Owning the Tools Actually Means
Last month I built a small test bench to answer one narrow question: if I generate a track that obviously leans on a known artist's voice and style, can the current crop of attribution tools actually…
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AI Licensing and Rights: What Actually Protects an Artist's Voice When a Model Can Clone It
Last month I took a vocal stem from a friend — a singer who's released two records and is rightly paranoid — and ran it through a consumer voice-cloning pipeline.
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AI Music Licensing Solved the Input Problem. Streaming Fraud Is the Bill Coming Due.
A licensing deal between a publishers' trade body and an AI music company lands as a headline, and the headline reads like a ceasefire.
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AI Licensing and Rights: Three Ways the Industry Is Trying to Prove Who Made What
A vocal that sounds exactly like an artist on your roster shows up in a track you've never heard, on a release you never approved. The singer is furious. Legal wants to know if it's actionable.
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Can AI Music Video Generators Actually Carry Your Single? A Working Answer for Broke Indies
It's 2 a.m. and I'm rendering a 38-second vertical clip for a friend's single that drops in nine hours.
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