Guinea Pigs Forced to Listen to Adele for 7 Days!!!

 The Adele / Guinea Pig Experiment

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• Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying
• Loudness Wars: Metallica's Death Magnetic
• Loudness war
• The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse
• Scientists made guinea pigs listen to Adele for a week. Here’s what happened to them.
• Using An Audio Compressor For VoiceOver Jobs
• The World is Getting Louder
• Metallica Fans Upset Over “Death Magnetic” Compression
• Loud, louder, loudest – how birds are adapting to city life

Salt-N-Pepa Versus UMG

 Salt-n-Pepa Pushes UMG Real Good!

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• Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)
• A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
• Hot, Cool & Vicious
• Will heirs get multi-million dollar music catalogs back in 35 years?
• Termination of Transfers and Licenses Under 17 U.S.C. §203
• 35-Year Reversion of Copyrights
• ‘A SECOND BITE AT THE APPLE’: COPYRIGHT CASE HIGHLIGHTS SECTION 203 RECAPTURE RIGHTS
• Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)
• Salt-N-Pepa with DJ Spinderella Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Salt-N-Pepa Sues UMG to Regain Masters, Says Label Is Holding Catalog ‘Hostage’
• Salt-N-Pepa Claim UMG Pulled Them from Streaming Services in Retaliation for Trying to Reclaim Rights to Their Hits: Lawsuit
• SALT-N-PEPA SUE UMG YOU'RE TAKING THE MONEY, BUT OUR RECORD DEAL IS EXPIRED!!!
• Salt-N-Pepa Sue UMG for Rights to Their Catalogue, Say Label Is Holding Music Hostage

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Resistance is Futile!

 Will AI Finally Be Able To Scuttle That Pesky Copyright Thing?

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• Copyright office criticizes AI ‘fair use’ before director’s dismissal 
• Shira Perlmutter
• Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office
• Ed Sheeran Wins Marvin Gaye Copyright Case Appeal: ‘Ubiquitous’ Chord Progression
• Trump May Hurt Hollywood With Remake of Copyright Office
• Promoting Progress: Celebrating the Constitution’s Intellectual Property Clause
• Google, OpenAI Assert “Fair Use” in AI Training Legal Battle | VBM
• Meta says copying books was 'fair use' in authors' AI lawsuit
• Judge in Meta case warns AI could 'obliterate' market for original works
• Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: Copyright Office
• Library of Congress: News Room
• A Conversation Between Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter About the Copyright Claims Board
• Theft is not fair use Artificial Intelligence companies have a copyright problem, and they know it.
• The Dead Internet Theory, Explained

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Music and the Dead Internet Theory

 Can Great Music Rise Above the Slop?

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• The Music Business Saturation Problem Keeps Getting Bigger: Analysis
• The Dead Internet Theory, Explained
• Music Content Creators Set To Lose Quarter Of Income Thanks To Generative AI
• Global economic study shows human creators’ future at risk from generative AI
• Sony Music to acquire Queen’s music catalog for $1bn
• The Booming Business of Music Catalog Sales
• Is The Music Industry Oversaturated?
• AI’s Impact On Music In 2025: Licensing, Creativity And Industry Survival
• IS THIS THE WORST-EVER ERA OF AMERICAN POP CULTURE?

• video: Titanic. A Night To Remember. (1958) 'Nearer My God To Thee'. Violin Scene

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A Musician's Brain-Matter Is Still Making Music - 3 Years After His Death!

You Can Compose as you Decompose! Stem-Cell Research Leads to Post Mortem Composition

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• “One of the concepts we are exploring is whether an artist could continue to create work after they have passed away”: The groundbreaking tech that will shape the future of music production
• Revivification - Video Documentation (video)
• Alvin Lucier on a Lifetime of Experiments | Red Bull Music Academy (video)
• A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
• Deceased Avant Garde Composer Making New Music Through ‘Revivification’ Of His Brain
• MUSIC FOR SURROGATE PERFORMER
• An American composer's biological matter creates new music from beyond the grave
• Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
• The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain

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