Music Technology Policy

“I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night...

Don,

Full disclosure: I have a little skin in this game. A few editions of All You Need to Know About the Music Business included the classical music section that you kindly thanked me for helping with. I’ve also used the book in my UT class. So I’ve followed the Anthropic litigation with more than academic interest.

Like everyone else, I saw the ...

A remarkably...

For millions of soccer fans, attending a FIFA World Cup match is a dream. But for a growing number of ticket buyers, that dream has turned into a costly nightmare—and now the state of Texas is getting involved.

If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause?  It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize their shoot-ready-aim ingestion of likely stolen works to support their next round of financing (or in some cases perhaps a VC exit by IPO), it’s likely that we will s...