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Applause Today – Negotiation Tomorrow

Applause is wonderful. Recognition matters. Encouragement matters. We all appreciate seeing initiatives that appear to move our industry in the right direction. But what happens when...

How to Steal a Whale

Maybe that isn’t quite the right description of what I’ve been asked to explain lately, but bear with me. It has to do with...

The future of music should not be built on forgetting who created it.

AI Music at the Olympics Exposes the Copyright Gap The controversy over Czech ice dancers using AI-generated music at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics highlights a...

When Tradition Becomes a Liability

The UK as a warning sign? For decades, the UK music industry was a global benchmark.Songwriting craft. Cultural authority. Export power. But at some point, tradition...

Creating Music in an Age of (In)Visibility

Why discovery is changing faster than copyright — and how creators are finally catching up For more than a decade, creators have lived with a...