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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
AI Music Governance Takes a Step Forward – Music Technology Policy
One of the persistent criticisms of the music industry is that it struggles to reach consensus on difficult issues. That...
National AI Data Center Backlash SITREP—July 13, 2026 – Music Technology Policy
We survey the growing national backlash against hyperscale AI data center development, including transmission infrastructure, eminent domain, secrecy, and local...
The Show-Me State Meets the Ghost in the Meyer AI Machine in the New Safe Harbor Michael Corleone Style – Music Technology Policy
There’s a club in DC that may or may not exist whose members are guys who do things with stuff....
Where Was the Board? – Music Technology Policy
Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a...
One More Thing About Perplexity – Music Technology Policy
Perplexity’s motion to dismiss in its defense against the New York Times and Chicago Tribune tries to narrow the cases,...
