Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?
Photo: Tsunami GreenDigital formats have been around for decades. So why is the music industry still struggling with sluggish payouts,...
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Double Shot Brings Songwriters a Double Win – Music Technology Policy
Songwriters have a reason to celebrate the Supreme Court’s October 19 disposition of BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, et al...
Hidden Right of Publicity Waivers – Music Technology Policy
Registration is open for Artist Rights Symposium 5 at Eventbrite! The Artist Rights Symposium 5 is coming on October 19...
A Tale of Two Industries: Music AI 2.0
Even with the transformation of AI, we must rewrite US Copyright Law. It is a mess. Photo Credit by Michael...
Gwen Seale Discusses the Streaming Mechanicals Panel at Artist Rights Symposium 5 – Music Technology Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUnGxg-oVA In this short video, Gwendolyn Seale and Artist Rights Institute Director Chris Castle preview “The 39 Steps,” a Symposium...
Train Your Own AI With Your Own Music
For the last few years, musicians have been asking the wrong question about artificial intelligence.Can AI write a song? Of...
Meta’s $17 Billion Escape Hatch – Music Technology Policy
C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew...
YouTube Music Subscribers Have Surged 45% In the Last Year Alone In the US. Time for Spotify, Apple, and Amazon to Start Worrying?
For nearly two decades, YouTube has been a dominant platform in music streaming, though almost exclusively as a free, ad-supported...
DATA CENTER BACKLASH SITREP 8/5/26 – Music Technology Policy
Texas Transmission Revolt Goes Mainstream as Willie Nelson Joins Opposition “I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a...
Anthropic Trained Claude on Donald Passman’s Music Industry Bible Without His Permission. His Payout? $5,000.
11th Edition of Donald Passman’s music industry bible, All You Need to Know About the Music Business.Since 1991, music industry...
