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AI Music Generation Deals: Opt-In Is Only as Strong as Your Contract
Opt-in does not mean you get to decide. For most artists and songwriters, the consent question in AI music generation will be answered by whoever holds the rights on paper — a label, a publisher, an…
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Why Your AI Music Policy Can't Be Enforced by Ear
A composer I work with sent me a 90-second cue last spring and asked whether I could tell. Detuned Juno pad, bass sitting a hair flat under a broken 808, room tone from what sounded like an actual…
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What Free Audio Plugins Do to Your Master Recordings
The job was a 90-second title sequence for a short film, due Friday, and the director wanted the synth bed to sound like it had been through a machine with a motor in it.
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AI Music Generation Outran Its Labels: Three Detection Systems, Compared
The file was a 48 kHz WAV, 2:14 long, sitting at 124 BPM: a moody synth bed with a pad that drifted slightly out of tune under a filtered kick. It arrived for a documentary rough cut.
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Streaming Fraud Is Not a Money Crime. It Is a Taste Crime.
Eleven minutes. That is how long it took me to make a track last month that I would not defend in a room full of musicians: 118 BPM, a plate-drenched Rhodes, a sub that dies below 40 Hz, hats off a…
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AI in Music Production Isn't the Existential Threat — But Look Where That Idea Came From
In April 2023, a track called "Heart on My Sleeve" put a synthetic Drake vocal over a synthetic Weeknd hook and pulled somewhere north of a few hundred thousand plays on Spotify before it was taken…
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How to Build a Help Desk Script That Survives AI Voice Cloning Attacks
Stop training your help desk to hear the fake. They cannot hear it, and neither can I, and I have spent a decade listening to audio for a living.
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The Spotify AI Music Initiative and the Question Every Artist Actually Asks: Do I Get Paid?
The number to hold onto is two. Every commercial recording carries at least two copyrights. There is the composition — notes and words, controlled by the writers and whoever administers the…
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AI Music Generation Detection, Tested: What Treblo and Sonauto Can Actually Prove
The thing that bothered me was not the voice. It was the stereo width. Somewhere in the second verse of the track half my feed argued about this summer, the arrangement stacks a counter-melody and a…
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Native Instruments Reaktor, Bundled and Discounted: What Actually Ends Up in Your Session
The tab is open. A discounted Native Instruments Reaktor bundle in one window, a game build in the other with a combat loop that still uses a placeholder bass patch you meant to replace three weeks…
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