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Licensing A wide, elegant editorial photograph of a heavy dark walnut conference table in a…
Licensing · 4 min

Anthropic Copyright Litigation, Compared: Three Cases, Three Theories of Harm

Ask a large language model to write something in the manner of a well-known songwriter, and you get one of two results.

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Ai Voice Close-up photograph of a professional recording studio mixing desk at night, hundreds of illuminated…
Ai Voice · 5 min

AI Voice Cloning Scams: A Sound Designer's Guide to the Call You Shouldn't Trust

The first time a cloned voice fooled me, I was sitting at my own mixing desk. A friend sent me eight seconds of a synthetic version of me as a joke — scraped from a podcast I'd done — saying a…

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Ai Music A tight overhead close-up of a vintage electric piano keyboard photographed on a cluttered…
Ai Music · 5 min

What Copyright Law Actually Protects When Two Tracks Sound Alike

The email had two attachments: a 48kHz WAV of a lo-fi beat, and a PDF of a cease-and-desist. The producer who sent it was sure he'd been robbed.

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Provenance A professional photojournalistic close-up of a cluttered developer workstation shot at eye level in…
Provenance · 6 min

The 26% Problem: AI Agents and Autonomy When Detection Barely Works

In July 2023, OpenAI quietly retired its own AI text detector. The classifier it had launched six months earlier correctly flagged about 26% of AI-written text as "likely AI-written," and it…

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Policy A photorealistic wide-angle photograph of a dim home recording studio at night, a single…
Policy · 5 min

AI-Generated Music Bans Aren't About Taste — They're About the Math

Last Tuesday I set a kitchen timer for sixty minutes and tried to bury my own hard drive. One text prompt after another, minor variations, no listening back beyond a few seconds to confirm the render…

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Royalties A dramatic overhead close-up of a vintage brass balance scale resting on a dark…
Royalties · 5 min

Fair Use Versus Mechanical Royalty Rates: When Does Reuse Owe You Nothing?

Nine-point-one cents. That was the statutory mechanical rate for a physical copy or a permanent download in the United States, frozen at that figure from 2006 until the Phonorecords III proceedings…

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Rights A photorealistic close-up photograph of a weathered brass door lock mounted on an aged…
Rights · 5 min

What AI Deepfake Detection Can and Can't Do About Scraping

A friend who scores mobile games sent me a link last spring: a thirty-second clip on a video app, a stranger's name in the corner, built around a vocal hook that was unmistakably hers — the same…

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Licensing A tightly sealed matte-black metal server cabinet standing alone in a dim data-center aisle…
Licensing · 4 min

Where AI Music Generation Gets Its Training Data — And Why Nobody Will Say

The first time I tried to trace where a popular text-to-music model got its training data, I got a marketing page, a terms-of-service link, and a paragraph that leaned on the word "proprietary" three…

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Security A close-up, photorealistic photograph of a shadowy figure's hands, empty and open, hovering just…
Security · 5 min

What a Suno Security Breach Actually Puts at Risk (and What Your Password Can't)

The standard advice for staying safe on an AI music platform fits on an index card: pick a strong, unique password, switch on two-factor authentication, and never reuse credentials across sites.

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Streaming A close-up, waist-level photograph of a single weathered mailbox overflowing with a dense mass…
Streaming · 9 min

The AI-Generated Music Statistics Everyone Quotes — and the Thin Source Underneath

There is a number that has quietly become the load-bearing wall of every AI-and-music panel this year: the claim that a majority of tracks uploaded to a major streaming service each day are now…

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