Someone Took It All—and Didn’t Even Have to Pick the Locks

I’ve spent most of my professional life representing composers and creators across borders, platforms, and technological shifts. I’ve sat through enough panels, task forces,...

If You Don’t Speak the New Gatekeepers’ Language, How Will You Ever Be Heard?

AI assistants are quietly becoming the new gatekeepers of music discovery. Yet for most of us, creators, it’s as if we simply don’t exist....

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”

Dickens, of course, did not have streaming services—or the slow erosion of musical diversity—in mind when he opened A Tale of Two Cities with those immortal...

The Inevitable Arrival

When Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Architecture of Creative Ownership Thank you for the thoughtful engagement on my previous post on FB. It’s evident that many within...

Making the Local Global – Not the Global Local

Today’s Music Ally Bulletin highlights a troubling trend from APRA AMCOS: while revenues in Australia’s music industry reached record highs, the share of local music being...

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