Copyright Laundering

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• Yes, AI Laundering is a thing
• Alarming Rise of AI Music Copyright Laundering
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• AI-Driven Copyright Infringement and "Laundering" A Growing Concern
• Colombian Criminals Use Music Industry to Launder Money
• Spotify Revealed as a Tool for Money Launderers and Gangs
• Part 3 – Money laundering and other illegal
• The dark history of the jukebox: how the Mafia used murder to build music machine empires
• Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data
• Biggest Money Laundering Cases
• Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations

Streamfarm Sweatshops: Cheating to the Top

 

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• My Scammer I responded to one of those spam texts from a “recruiter”—then took the job. It got weirder than I could have imagined.
• The rise of streaming farms: How fake streams impact the music industry and artist credibility
• "Streaming Farms"
• Real Cost of Artificial Streams for Indie Artists and Labels
• What are Streaming Farms? How Fake Streams are Taking Over Spotify
• ROLLING WITH THE CHARTS: BILLBOARD’S EPIC JOURNEY
• The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots
• STREAMING FRAUD COSTS THE GLOBAL MUSIC INDUSTRY $2BN A YEAR, ACCORDING TO BEATDAPP. NOW IT’S PARTNERING WITH BEATPORT TO COMBAT THE TREND
• Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1960
• The true cost of streaming fraud: Artists’ revenues hurt
• Can data analytics and machine learning protect against the $2B+ music streaming fraud crisis?
• AI in the Music Industry – Part 6: Fake Streams and Streaming Farms
• Artificial streaming and paid 3rd-party services that guarantee streams
• What Are Streaming Farms, and Why Are They Controversial?
• STREAMING FARMS: THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF MUSIC STREAMING
• List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1991
• AMAZON, BEST BUY SELL LADY GAGA’S ALBUM AT DEEP DISCOUNT Digital retailer is selling 'Born This Way' for 99 cents
• Music Data Being Altered, Some Say
• How SoundScan Changed Everything We Knew About Popular Music

Dying For Dollars: Rock of the Aged

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• Ozzy's Death Will Give His Sales & Streams a Big Bump -- But a Biopic Could Provide an Even Bigger Lift
• Ozzy Osbourne Hit Lands on Major Chart for First Time Ever Following His Death
• Ozzy Osbourne Posthumously Scores 10th Top 10 Album With ‘The Essential Ozzy’
• Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Spotify Streams Spike Following Osbourne’s Death
• Fans flock to stores to buy Elvis records, dramatic sales increase
• John Lennon : 32 Years On, Music, Death, Cash Register Full/ https://stevomusicman.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/john-lennon/
• How John Lennon's Death Caused a Rush on His Final Album | 
• Untimely Death: Still a Great Career Move (Snyder's Newsweek Article)
• Abbie Hoffman > Quotes > Quotable Quote
• When Jimi Hendrix talked about death and wondered if he would turn 28
• Van Halen streams increase by over 1,300% following Eddie Van Halen’s death
• Who made a fortune off of Whitney Houston’s death?
• SLY STONE DEAD AT 82
• I READ THE NEWS TODAY: The “Paul Is Dead” Incident
• 'Paul is Dead!' (said Fred)
• In Memoriam: 2025
• Where the Money goes: Who Reaps the Rewards of Dead Musicians
• Please, Let There Be More Rock ’n’ Roll!
• How the Boomers Saved Everything

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Howard Cosell announces John Lennon's Death

Ages:

• Ringo Starr (The Beatles): 85

• Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones): 81 (turns 82 on July 26, 2025)

• Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones): 81

• Roger Daltrey (The Who): 81

• Pete Townshend (The Who): 80

• Bob Dylan: 84

• Eric Clapton: 80

• Van Morrison: 79

• Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane): 85

• Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys): 82

• Ray Davies (The Kinks): 81

• Eric Burdon (The Animals): 84

• Robby Krieger (The Doors): 79

• John Densmore (The Doors): 80

• David Gilmour (Pink Floyd): 79

• Roger Waters (Pink Floyd): 81

• Nick Mason (Pink Floyd): 81

• Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young): 80

• Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young): 83

• Neil Young: 79

• John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival): 80

• Rod Stewart: 80

• Debbie Harry (Blondie): 80

• James Taylor: 77

• Jackson Browne: 77