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Licensing A professional commercial recording studio captured during a live session, photographed through the control…
Licensing · 6 min

The Cost Comparison Tech Giants Don't Want in the AI Copyright Regulation Debate

A friend who runs a small commercial studio sent me two numbers last month. The first was an invoice: $4,200 for a three-day session to cut a 90-second cue for a regional ad.

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Music Publishing A wide-angle photograph of two music executives shaking hands across a sleek glass conference…
Music Publishing · 5 min

Music Publishing's Regional Land Grab Isn't About Buying Catalogs Anymore

When a mid-size publisher announces it is "entering" the Latin or African or Southeast Asian market, the instinct among people watching the cap table is to ask how big the catalog was and what…

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Music Publishing A wide-angle photograph of a bustling open-air street market at golden hour in a…
Music Publishing · 10 min

The "Buy Catalogs, Win the Market" Rule of Music Publishing — Where It Breaks Down

The advice you hear at every conference panel and in every investor deck goes like this: if you want to grow in an emerging market, buy the catalog.

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Rights A dimly lit art gallery at dusk, viewed in a wide cinematic composition: rows…
Rights · 5 min

The Gallery Analogy Is Doing a Lot of Work in AI Copyright Regulation

Last month I ran a small test, mostly out of suspicion. I took a bassline I know cold — a detuned analog walk in F minor, the kind of line that sits under a thousand library cues — and I described it…

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Ai Voice A close-up portrait of an older woman seated in a dim living room at…
Ai Voice · 10 min

AI Voice Cloning Scams: Three Ways to Verify a Voice You Trust

A few seconds of audio is enough. Not minutes — seconds. A voice note your mother sent to a WhatsApp group, a clip from a wedding video someone posted, a voicemail greeting that's been the same for…

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Licensing A wide, atmospheric photograph of a large outdoor music festival stage at dusk, shot…
Licensing · 6 min

Net Proceeds: What Charity Music Festivals Actually Move

A benefit festival sells a ticket for, say, $150. By the time the cause sees money, the line on the press release reads "net proceeds." Somewhere between that $150 and the check that lands at a…

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Licensing A dimly lit modern recording studio at night, shot on a 50mm lens at…
Licensing · 4 min

The Suno AI Music Generation Settlement Is the License Template, Not the Lawsuit

The lawsuit was never the story. The settlement is. For two years the music industry treated AI audio companies as defendants — entities to be sued into either compliance or extinction.

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Ai Video A moody overhead photograph of a dimly lit home music studio at 1 a.m…
Ai Video · 5 min

AI Video Generation for Suno Tracks: Can You Build a Repeatable Workflow, or Are You Stuck Rendering One Pretty Shot at a Time?

You finished the song at 1 a.m. A two-minute Suno cut in A minor, 92 BPM, a detuned Rhodes under a half-time trap kick, exported clean at 48kHz. The hard part was supposed to be over.

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Music Rights An intimate bedroom recording studio at golden hour, warm sunlight streaming through a window…
Music Rights · 5 min

AI Music Detection in Practice: What Holds Up When the Verdict Gets Challenged

A dispute lands on your desk on a Tuesday. A distributor flagged a track in your catalog as machine-generated, pulled it from three DSPs, and now the artist's lawyer wants to know what produced that…

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Provenance A dimly lit professional audio editing suite at night, shot at eye level with…
Provenance · 4 min

Spotting AI Voice Synthesis Used to Be a Party Trick. It Isn't Anymore.

There's a sound editors used to listen for. Not a glitch exactly — an absence. AI-generated speech from a few years back didn't breathe.

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