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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Can a United Voice Describe Diversity?

Why collective advocacy must amplify individual voices, not replace them In music policy, unity is powerful. But it can also...

AI copyright protection vs competition

A new gate is being built around AI-assisted music. Today it concerns Finland’s official charts. Tomorrow the same principle could...

Label AI Spam. Do Not Label the Composer.

I welcome the decision by some music platforms to label fully AI generated music. There is a real problem. A...

Applause Today – Negotiation Tomorrow

Applause is wonderful. Recognition matters. Encouragement matters. We all appreciate seeing initiatives that appear to move our industry in the...

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....

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...

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...

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