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Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News

Current, Interesting, Offbeat, Music Biz News Updates Curated from Various Sources.“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle OnassisSMBN consists of presentations of various news points, with the occasional segment by Jonesy my cat: Jonesy"s Cat-Shit Crazy Pick.Video Versions at https://www.youtube.com/@snydersmusicbiznewsFor 27+ years as a Music Professor teaching Music Business and Recording classes, as well as being a professional musician, one of my favorite

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9:55

AI, Will Smith, Crowds, and Cats: It's Easy to Build...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/10/28

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/CrUlIezY7ugThe music biz has always blurred the lines between the real and the fake, like KISS dubbing in the audience on their live album. Will Smith has gotten some brutal press for his use of AI to 'enhance' his audience in a video of him performing. The controversy is exposing some much deeper realizations about the use of AI. "AI fatigue is hitting hard." "AI-generated content isn’t just underperforming; it’s triggering active resentment." "Public backlash against

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9:00

Suno and Udio Rip Streams to Feed AI

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/10/17

Halloween Issue: Stream ripping has been part of music piracy for decades, from copying songs on the radio to cassette, to now when an individual rips music or video from a streaming platform and coverts it into a downloadable file that any user can use offline. If you haven't heard of stream ripping, it's probably because the labels have had some success regulating it. But now it's back in the headlines. The AI companies like Suno and Udio are accused of stream ripping to train their AI models. Of

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7:43

Udio Takes Lead in Record Label Lawsuit

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/10/10

"...labels to quietly consider licensing arrangements rather than risk exposing gaps in ownership or registration in court." For the discovery process between Udio and UMG, the court agreed that Universal Music Group must: 1. Provide copies of all of the music they claim was infringed, I.E., prove it! 2. Provide all of the record agreements between the label and the artists to determine if UMG actually owns the recordings. If the agreement specifies that the record was Made Work For Hire, the label

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10:18

AI and Humans Get Along

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/09/30

"Fans may soon follow virtual personas with the same passion as human celebrities." An AI Musician with millions of streams gets a 3 million dollar contract. An AI Actor worries human actors. Both are seen as threats by human musicians and actors, but does the common person care? This is a case in which a human and AI successfully 'collaborate.' Are there times when AI can be your creative partner? Sources: https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot....

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8:59

Fear of an AI Planet

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/09/18

• The internet is no longer “for humans, by humans.” • "82% of listeners cannot distinguish AI-made music from human-created music" • "The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows. All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones" • 38 percent of (mostly) human-made webpages from 2013 no longer exist, which is the result a process known as “link rot.” • "A growing number of tech users now believe that AI is God." • "AI SLOP MIGHT

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9:49

Composing 'Sonic Seasonings'

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/09/08

Taking a break from AI, copyright law, etc...I dive into the new field of composing music, designed to enhance specific culinary delights. "Scientists Invent this 90-sec Song [Sweetest Melody] to Make Chocolate Taste Better" Research shows that certain instruments make food sweeter, or more bitter. How does your instrument affect taste? Does it work? Researchers say: "We're able to show that we can change the experience in [the] mouth by about 5 or 10 percent." Will there be a Spotify playlist with

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9:53

Did AI Eat Your Lyrics, Sheet Music, Scores, Etc.?...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/08/31

Suno and Udio are being sued by the labels, but there is another major suit most haven't heard about. Sued by UMG and other labels, Anthropic almost got away with scraping millions of copies of printed music to train AI for free, claiming 'Fair Use.' Until it was exposed, in a similar class action lawsuit by book authors, that Anthropic hid it also scraped printed music from the same LibGen, torrents, and other sites. The book authors won, and now, using the same winning arguments against Anthropic,

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9:04

The Music Industry Is Splitting!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/08/24

Podcast LinkArtificial Pop (A-Pop), Music Designers, AI Music Charts, Oh My! The separation between human music and AI music is widening and becoming more obvious. AI now has its own all AI record labels, there will probably be a Billboard AI Chart, the 1st 'Music Designer' who uses Suno is signed to a record deal, A-Pop (Artificial Pop) is becoming as thing. Meanwhile humans are looking at creating paid subscriptions to human-only music streams, a new human-only music social network is coming, and

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7:49

Copyright Laundering

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/08/16

Link to YT videoPeople use AI (SUNO, UDIO) to create songs comprised of real musicians' copy-protected works. It's blatant copyright infringement, hidden by laundering copyrights so they can't be traced to the original owners. Here is what you need to know:Money LaunderingAl Capone used to run money made from bootlegging and other crimes through laundromats to 'clean' money, make it legitimate, so that nobody could trace it back to the original 'dirty' crime money. Thus the term 'money laundering'

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10:37

Streamfarm Sweatshops: Cheating To The Top!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/08/11

$2 billion is lost to streaming fraud each year, representing about 7-10% of total streaming royalties, and growing.Streamfarms, consisting of AI bots, and more likely people in developing countries PRETENDING TO BE AI BOTS, are paid to rapidly inflate the number of streams of a song, as well as likes, follows, and playlists, pushing both human and fake artists to the top.Other artists find market visibility to be monopolised by fraudsters and mediocre music. It's already been hard to break through,

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11:05

Dying for Dollars: Rock of the Aged

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/08/05

Link to video: https://youtu.be/hJeu5KvgBww"You have to die before they think you are worth anything". Jimi Hendrix The deaths of the greatest generation of rockers, is bringing in millions of dollars, and the industry has learned to cash in. Even just a rumor of a death, like when Paul McCartney was supposed dead and replaced by a double (he wasn't), can result in big boosts in sales and streams. With the assassination of John Lennon, the records labels began to realize that when an artist dies,

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7:41

The New Major Trend In The Live Music Scene

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/07/20

From the days of hipster musicians touring living rooms, to the present with major acts playing in backyards and bowling alleys, artists are skipping large venues and thinking small, the stage wherever they can strap on a guitar and play. With fans having to finance tickets to go to concerts, the trend is for the artists to go to them. Bands like All American Rejects achieved over 4 Million dollars in marketing on their 'House Party Tour' by playing at skating rinks and homes. Now the labels and

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6:32

Deadmau5's Feline Secret to Success and Well Being

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/07/13

Jonesy believes that every aspiring musician should be given a kitten before the first music lesson! In this podcast, Jonesy the cat points to famous DJ and producer deadmau5: "While cats may sometimes be destructive, deadmau5 is a fan of having feline pals around." As cat-dad to Peanut, Dizzy and Dolly, even though they may be a pain at times, he believes that's 'The price of a cat'. And surely Peanut, Dizzy and Dolly simply tolerate a cat-dad that wears mouse ears! Sometimes, just giving a cat a

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7:39

Your Muse Is Calling...You Should Answer!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/07/05

[Warning...this vid is a little philosophic] While watching an interview of David Gilmore about his newest album, Luck and Strange, I was reminded that music is a gift to humans. That AI will never wait for years to finish a song, always looking for that special something it needs to complete it. That AI will never be visited by a Muse. That AI will never experience music. The Cambridge dictionary defines muse as: a person, or an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to

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10:11

Is It Real or Is It Memorex (or AI)

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/06/30

Podcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzs8lbX9g41 - Courts just opened the door for AI to copy copyrighted material under Fair Use, as long as they purchase 1 copy. 2 - The First Record Label to Exclusively Feature AI Artists: IT'S ALL FAKE. Artists, Music, Backstories, Videos...everything. 3 - "There's No Going Back!" 'Deezer' Chief Innovation Officer.Sources at https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2025/06/is-it-real-or-is-it-ai.htmlSubStack https://srfrjff.substack.com

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10:02

"For Many Artists, This Is Déjà Vu – And Not The Good...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/06/24

A former exec at Meta (Facebook) said "...asking for permission from rights owners to train models would 'basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.' " In 1997, it was the new technology, MP3s, used by Napster, that the labels said would kill Music. Back then the labels sued Napster, Kazaa, etc; today the labels are suing Suno and Udio. Is history repeating itself? Lot's of parallels!

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10:02

Will Music Kill AI, or Will AI Kill Music?

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/06/23

A former exec at Meta (Facebook) said "...asking for permission from rights owners to train models would 'basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.' " In 1997, it was the new technology, MP3s, used by Napster, that the labels said would kill Music. Back then the labels sued Napster, Kazaa, etc; today the labels are suing Suno and Udio. Is history repeating itself? Lot's of parallels!Sources at https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2025/06/is-this-day-music-died.html

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11:01

AI Killed The Radio Star!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/06/16

Your Fav Radio DJ Might Not Be Human!Good news is radio listenership is reported to be good...but who are we listening to? For 6 months, listeners to a radio station had no idea that the DJ they were listening to, wasn't human. AI DJs are already popping up on the radio across the planet, replacing humans or serving as live sidekick/cohosts. "If a robot can blend in for half a year without anyone noticing, it might already be happening more than we think."Podcast Video :

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11:37

Sinatra, Taylor, Fogerty, Swift Fight for Control,...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/06/08

For those who want to know about the significance of masters in the recording industry, here's a little dive into the background and history of artists, record labels, and the fight for masters ownership. In what has been described as a brilliant strategy, Taylor Swift devalues her first 6 albums by rerecording them and then, as the songwriter, denied anybody licensing the originals in movies or commercials insisting they could only use her re-recorded versions; meanwhile sales of the originals

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5:57

Guinea Pigs Forced to Listen to Adele for 7 Days!!!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/30

The Adele / Guinea Pig Experimenthttps://youtu.be/1Cjo8p8pe8UAI version of Jonesy the cat introduces and ends the podcastJonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Music-Biz News, is that scientists exposed 2 groups of Guinea Pigs to Adele's 'I Miss You' for 7 days. The purpose to see how compression/loudness affects hearing. One group recovered in 1 day. The other group of Guinea Pigs now have long-term hearing damage and should probably seek legal advice! While both had hearing damage, one group recovered in 1 day

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