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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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8:39

Salt and Pepa Pushes UMG Real Good!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/22

"It's about legacy, justice and the future of artist ownership."Salt and Pepa are suing Universal Music Group for the rights to the recordings of their hit songs. UMG is Pushing Back by taking down their music from streams. Copyright law does allow artists to reclaim ownership of their recordings after 35 years, but UMG says they were employees and so the songs are work-for-hire and they don't want to give them up. A good look into the battle for ownership of artist's recordings, especially as music

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9:40

Music and the Dead Internet Theory

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/16

Can Great Music Rise Above the Slop? [WARNING: May Be Depressing For Musicians]The Dead Internet Theory: "AI-generated material will eventually flood the internet so thoroughly, that nothing human can be found. " The ocean of music is filling with AI slop. Major artists flood the streams with tons of remixes, altered versions, and clips of the same song/album. New artists try to get attention by posting 100s of Tik-Tok videos of the same song hoping just one will go viral. With 'Oversaturation',

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9:05

Resistance is Futile!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/16

Will AI Finally Be Able To Scuttle That Pesky Copyright Thing?(Update: There is an article today on The Verge entitled "Elon Musk’s Apparent Power Play at the Copyright Office Completely Backfired: Ripping off content to train AI wasn't going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media". So while there is absolutely still no reason given to fire the director who is most qualified to guide the Copyright Office on matters of AI, the end result is up in the air, and I remain skeptical, as given in

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9:44

Can Great Music Rise Above the Slop? [WARNING: May Be...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/12

The Dead Internet Theory: "AI-generated material will eventually flood the internet so thoroughly, that nothing human can be found. " The ocean of music is filling with AI slop. Major artists flood the streams with tons of remixes, altered versions, and clips of the same song/album. New artists try to get attention by posting 100s of Tik-Tok videos of the same song hoping just one will go viral. With 'Oversaturation', 'Content-Oversuppy', and focus on old music instead of new music, does new music

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5:52

You Can Compose as you Decompose! Stem-Cell Research...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/05/05

Revivification. The groundbreaking tech that will shape the future of music production! An Art Gallery in Australia is featuring NEW music being composed years after the passing of the composer, Alvin Lucier, with a process known as revivification. "“One of the concepts we are exploring is whether an artist could continue to create work after they have passed away.” Stem cells developed from Lucier's blood cells at Harvard, became living organoids / 'mini-brains' located in and used to create new

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9:14

Want To Vibe Like Imogen Heap?

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/29

"The more [artists] that stick their head in the sand, the more likely it's gonna go to the people who are doing it for profit and won't be thinking about them." Heap "Actors can make good money licensing their images to AI companies, but many are later shocked to see where their digital clones turn up". As artists like Grimes allows use of her AI voice, and Imogen Heap allows the use of "...the vibe, feel, rhythmic style, instrument textures" of her music, do they really know how their AI versions

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6:23

Landmark Case: The First AI Generated Work to be...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/26

Anybody who uses AI to create anything, whether it's art or music, should know about this decision: • "Up until January 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) had rejected all AI-generated works on the basis that they lacked sufficient human authorship" • "This landmark decision sets a precedent for future AI-assisted artworks, highlighting the importance of human creativity and guidance in the creation process to qualify for copyright protection" • "This ruling is a major advancement in the legal

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5:41

Carey Versus A Copyright Troll?

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/26

"One artist should not push another artist to the brink of a financial collapse." So says the lawyer for Vince Vance who sued Mariah Carey for copyright infringement, and lost. He wanted $20M and all copies of her evergreen, 'All I Want for Xmas', to be destroyed. But instead, he now owes her reimbursement for over $180,000 in legal fees.

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5:41

Carey Versus a Copyright Troll

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/25

"One artist should not push another artist to the brink of a financial collapse."So says the lawyer for Vince Vance who sued Mariah Carey for copyright infringement, and lost. He wanted $20M and all copies of her evergreen, 'All I Want for Xmas', to be destroyed. But instead, he now owes her reimbursement for over $180,000 in legal fees.

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5:41

Carey Versus a Copyright Troll?

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/25

"One artist should not push another artist to the brink of a financial collapse."So says the lawyer for Vince Vance who sued Mariah Carey for copyright infringement, and lost. He wanted $20M and all copies of her evergreen, 'All I Want for Xmas', to be destroyed. But instead, he now owes her reimbursement for over $180,000 in legal fees.

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5:10

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy News; Meet Horsegiirl

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/12

As Jonesy opines, "It’s bad enough that humans, 100% humans, have to compete with AI generated fake artists and music on Spotify, now the animal kingdom is elbowing in???" Meet HorsegiirL, a German DJ who has created a persona as a horse, both while performing and in character during interviews. Rather it's brilliant, or just another gimmick, either way it's working!

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8:04

AI IS EATING YOUR VOICE

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/10

Audio Data Is In Big Demand Not Just for Music. Alexa is Feeding Your Voice to AI!!!Feeding AI audio is big business. Know the difference between LLM and RAG data collection. Record labels buy up indie labels to wall off their audio data, while Amazon announces everything you say to Alexa is now saved, it's always listening. Don't be surprised if one day you hear your voice singing an AI generated song.

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8:04

AI Is Eating Your Voice!

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/09

Feeding AI audio is big business. Know the difference between LLM and RAG data collection. Record labels buy up indie labels to wall off their audio data, while Amazon announces everything you say to Alexa is now saved, it's always listening. Don't be surprised if one day you hear your voice singing an AI generated song.

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6:20

Coming Era of Dead Musicians', Resurrected by AI,...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/04/05

"The music industry has fallen in love with the dead and dying." Old songs now represent almost 75% of streams. Tribute bands are now the rage, while defunct bands like Van Halen put out new albums using AI to replace missing members. Some artists like Luna Del Ray are writing into their wills to not release any music after they die, but the record labels own the sound recordings, and they (and surviving family members), using AI, can smell the gold. So will the music landscape begin to be filled

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5:29

The Competition Between Humans and AI, for Listeners,...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/03/19

It was bound to happen. The first all AI created album, certified by Spotify, was released by Spanish AI artist Pedro Sandoval. Meet AI Singers ZKY-18 and Dirty Marilyn, "...their voices so real they could perfectly match those of any singer currently recording." Will AI generated albums begin to populate and push out human-made albums?

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4:28

Universal Music Group Renews Agreement with Spotify...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/03/18

Is it true that "Spotify is despised in the songwriting industry"? Universal Music Group (UMG) signed a new agreement with Spotify announcing Streaming 2.0. What does that now mean for royalties for artists, bundling with non-music content, etc.?

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11:40

Will You Pay $216 A Year To Be A SUPERFAN? Here Comes...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/03/18

Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Spotify Agree Premium Subscriptions Are The Future. Following the Netflix model of increasing the number of subscription tiers and prices, and believing ‘high-value’ subscribers will gladly pay more for exclusive perks and content, Streaming 2.0 offers more bundles with more content, access, and perks to connect fans and artists. Cash grab or will artists truly benefit?

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5:17

Two Single Release AI Firsts: Randy Travis' Voice and...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/03/12

Two singles mark AI music production history: Randy Travis, who can't speak or sing since a 2013 stroke, released another single. His first was the "very first artist-sanctioned commercially released song to feature their own artificially-generated voice'. Is this is just the beginning of artists and labels using 'sanctioned' artificially generated vocals? Could we expect to hear a much younger sounding Paul McCartney, and other aging artists, releasing new music using this AI tech?The Beatles won a

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26:06

Amazon Adds SUNO AI So Everybody Can Create Songs /...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/03/02

00:01 Opening sound is a small sample from the new album 'Is This What We Want?' 00:24 Amazon is adding SUNO AI to Alexa + so that anybody can create a new song, who needs human songwriters? 04:18 Used to be labels used human A&R scouts to find new talent. Now Artists hoping to be 'discovered' and become the next big hit, need to impress AI. 16:30 AI is already being used in live concerts to enhance performances for the audience. Face recognition and other AI tools make it so no 2 concerts are

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23:08

What Up w/Aggressive PROs? • Copyright Office's AI...

Prof Snyder"s Music Biz News ·

2025/02/22

00:01 Intro 00:18 Congress has asked the Copyright Office to look into aggressive tactics Performance Rights Organizations are now using to get money from small venues, restaurants, bars, etc. Changes in non-profit status and the addition of 3 more pros may cause live music to dry up. 10:46 The Copyright Office just released its determination (1 of 3) about AI and Copyright protection. 13:09 A description of the 3 common uses of AI in music production 20:06 Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Pick is how AI can

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