The ArticlesDecoded

From now on, my articles will be published here on my website — alfonskarabuda.com — which will serve as their permanent home. The articles will also continue to be available on LinkedIn. The series is called “Decoded by Alfons” — not because I claim to have all the answers, but because I take the time to unpack complex topics through the lens of my own experiences, in an effort to better understand them myself. If that process happens to be useful to someone else along the way, all the better.

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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...

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,...

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...

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...

“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...

The Inevitable Arrival

When Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Architecture of Creative Ownership Thank you for the thoughtful engagement on my previous post on...

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...

Why Creative Tech Is the Nordic Superpower

Reflections from Nordic Tech Week Thank you, Nordic Tech Week, and especially Sofie Marin from Arts Dynamics, for inviting me to be part of...

Historic milestone: The song registered on the blockchain!

Today, September 16, 2025, marks a significant step for both creators and the evolution of intellectual property. Using CopyrightChains V9.2,...

What Matters More Than a Headline?

When STIM announced what they described as the world’s first AI license, it wasn’t surprising that the claim generated...

Ever Felt Like Suing Yourself?

I didn’t think so either. Yet that is precisely what the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal suggested when it dismissed...

How to (Re)Claim Creative Rights

A bump on the road toward long-established goals? Or the systematic theft of creative value? The answer depends on how...

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