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Who Owns The Codes? The Sound and Ownership of Music in the AI Age
Preamble Early in 2024 I was asked to contribute a chapter to the IAEL’s book on AI in music. It was an honour to be asked, and a significant effort to deliver something that I felt would not waste the … Continue reading
Hypercompetition. How Platforms Destroy Markets.
The first rule of platform business success: increase supply as far beyond the market’s ability to sustain the suppliers as possible. It doesn’t really matter how – and many tactics have been tried. It doesn’t matter what it costs either … Continue reading
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Platformed! Music’s New ‘Disempowerment’ Business Model
In his book, Noise, Jacques Attali makes a startling assertion – that music is the vanguard of revolution. Changes, he says, in the relationship between music and the economic and social structures that govern its position and remuneration prefigure fundamental … Continue reading
The Public Interest in Music
The UK music industry is going through a period of internal arguments, and as sometimes happens some of us are reaching out for an adjudicator, or referee. January 2021 saw the UK’s law makers brought into the ring in a … Continue reading