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Major Key Takeaways AI has moved from experimental to existential in the music industry.Licensing, not litigation, is now the dominant strategy for labels engaging with AI.The rapid growth of AI-generated content is straining streaming platforms and discovery models.Music creation is becoming more interactive, with fans empowered to remix and reinterpret licensed works.The future of music hinges on finding equilibrium between algorithmic scale and human expression. AI has moved from experimental…
On 11/11, 2025, the Munich Regional Court handed a judicial victory to the music community with a milestone ruling that sent shockwaves through the artificial intelligence industry. In a case brought by GEMA, Germany's largest music rights organization, the court ruled that OpenAI's ChatGPT violated copyright law by training its language models on protected song lyrics without permission. Specifically, GEMA pointed to nine song lyrics to make their case.This decision represents…
Art has always been under the influence by Artifice, in all senses of the word: as craftsmanship, as chicanery, and as sleight of hand. We’ve had the Monkees (authenticity under question as a «manufactured» band), Milli Vanilli (not actually singing on their hits), the whole boyband era and holograms, but we’re now seeing the first completely virtual/artificial artist, the Artificial Intelligence «artist» who is bringing a whole new level and…
How to be an Artist in a Web3 World Web3, with its decentralized concepts and focus on creator ownership, has the potential to transform the music industry in numerous, powerful ways. First off, a short definition of what we mean by «Web3»: Web3 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Some technologists and journalists…
The music industry is at a crossroads, and as in the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson, the deal is to sell or not to sell one’s «soul».The unsurprising «Devil» in our story is Artificial Intelligence. The music industry is, and will be, one of the industries that will be most impacted by AI, and by Generative AI, in particular. This is certain not the only form of AI that will…
Whether your reaction to the term »Music NFT» is WTF? or LOL! This introduction will hopefully clarify a few aspects of the concept.The first music NFTs were released in the market in 2021 with major acts like Kings of Leon and electronica acts liks DJ-producer 3LAU as examples of NFT-pioneers. Now, four years on, despite some individual success stories, NFTs are far from being seen as an industry standard.Let’s see…
When I was learning the guitar by mishearing guitar riffs and chord progressions and watching the occasional VHS instructional video, Gen-AI, Blockchain, Web3 and NFTs were concepts that sounded as alien as avant-garde jazz to me. I did learn to appreciate avantgarde jazz, though, and the concepts mentioned are today’s buzz words in the music industry.These technologies are fundamentally transforming how music is created, distributed, and consumed. Some (read: Gen-AI) are…
The music industry has never been short of semi-legal and illegal schemes and shady operators. Every aspect and every era of the industry have experienced various levels of fraud. In fact, a «standard» record deal through history could, in many instances, be viewed as an outright fraud! But, that’s a story for another day.Today, in the streaming era, streaming fraud is the dominant force of evil in the industry ,…
The concept of interactive album experiences, I would argue, was born out of the necessity to make the CD a more attractive artifact. A «CD what?», someone under the age of 30 might ask. The Compact Disc was a «print money scheme» developed by Sony and Philips to create a cheap, compact, format to present recorded music, allowing the record industry to resell their catalogues in the new format, and…
Much has been said, written, and certainly moaned about AI and music, including in these pages! Let’s look at how to use AI in the service of creativity instead of laziness. I will not be mentioning any music-gen tools, simply because those are not for musicians. Making «music» from prompts is not exactly exciting for a musician, and it sure doesn’t make you one. They are a fun tool, if…
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