Prof Snyder's Music Biz News: Is it true that "Spotify is despised in the songwriting industry"?

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Spotify and UMG Announce Streaming 2.0

• Spotify, Universal Music Strike New Deal For Recorded Music & Publishing
• Spotify and UMG enter multi-year partnership to restructure monetization and subscription services

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News: Two Single Release AI Firsts

Links to Two Single Release AI Firsts: Randy Travis' Voice and a Beatles' Grammy  (Some may be behind paywall)

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Randy Travis 2nd AI Sung Single

• RANDY TRAVIS RELEASES HIS SECOND AI SONG ‘HORSES IN HEAVEN’
• Randy Travis Earns The Biggest Hit Of His Career On One Chart With His Comeback Single

Beatles and AI Win Grammy

• Now and Then CD
• That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance
• Elton John and Paul McCartney want to protect UK artists from AI
• DID AI MUSIC GENERATE A GRAMMY FOR THE
• BEATLES' NOW AND THEN?

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 15

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Amazon+ and SUNO 

• $500M-VALUED SUNO HAS ADMITTED TRAINING AI ON COPYRIGHTED MUSIC. THAT HASN’T STOPPED AMAZON FROM ADDING ITS CONTROVERSIAL TECH TO ALEXA
• Major Labels Sue Al Firms Suno and Udio for Alleged Copyright Infringement 

AI and Live Performance

• The AI Revolution in Music Concerts: How Famous Singers are Using Technology to Transform Performances
• Facial Recognition in Media: Revolutionizing Entertainment Industry
• Artificial intelligence meets lighting control.

AI and A&R

• Artificial & Repertoire: How Has AI Restructured the A&R Industry?
• Discover more with SoundCloud Go+
• sodatone
• Sodatone Metrics
• Lil Nas X
• WARNER BUYS A&R SCOUTING TOOL SODATONE TO BOOST ‘SEARCH FOR THE SUPERSTARS OF TOMORROW’
• MUSIIO By SoundCloud
• FRTYFVE: We Are Instrumental

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy: New Album of Nothing

• Is This What We Want? audio track
• Is This What We Want? Wikipedia
• British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work
• Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
• Is This What We Want? Official page with Playable Audio Tracks

Example of A&R Report. March 1 1991

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 14

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US Copyright Office and Performance Rights Aggression

US Copyright Office launches inquiry into performance rights organizations

Copyright Office Commences an
Inquiry into the Proliferation of
Performing Rights Organizations –
Looking at the Complexity of
Licensing Musical Works in the
United States

Freddie Long

(From Freddie)Those wishing to submit public comment about PROs mentioned in the podcast

https://copyright.gov/policy/pro-issues/ Full USCO Notice of Inquiry on the Federal Register:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/10/2025-02418/issues-related-to-performing-rights-organizations

www.federalregister.gov

US Copyright Office AI Copyrights Report

Can AI-generated content be
copyrighted? Here’s what a new
report from the US Copyright Office
says…

AI and Valentines

"Love is in the air, your AI Valentine's
Day music is ready": We test the best
and worst AI love song generators for
the 'perfect gift' this Valentine's day

AI Used to Create Song

Makebestmusic

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 13

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SONY DROPS BLU-RAY AND MINI-DISCS / TAPE MAKES COMEBACK

End of an era: Sony to stop production of recordable Blu-ray discs

Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with ‘no successor’ planned

Blu-ray is dying so I believe it's now time for 'obsolete' tape to shine again in the strangest of ironies

Sony MDS-B5

ROCK PHOTOGRAPHERS / LAWSUITS / COPYRIGHT TROLLS 

Legal Exposure: This One Rock Music Photographer Has Filed More Than 50 Copyright Lawsuits

DEEZER CREATES AI DETECTION TOOL

Deezer Says Its New AI Detection Tool Found 10% of Songs Delivered to the Platform Are AI-Generated

JONESY'S CAT-SHIT CRAZY PICK

Meet the OG AI...Freddie Ford

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 12

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DNA the Future of DATA Storage

• An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60.
• DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster
• DNA Inspiration to AI Data Storage

Papering The House

• The Fine Art of ‘Papering the House’ :
• Free Tickets Sometimes Offered
• When Performer Can’t Fill the Venue
• The Lefsetz Letter

Bundling Reduces Stream Royalties

• Few U.S. Spotify Subscribers Have Opted Out of Higher-Priced Music-Audiobook Bundle, Survey Finds
• Spotify reveals €94m ‘bundle’ impact on US mechanical royalties
• Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
• Spotify Stands to Gain at Least Half-a-Billion a Year From Its Latest Price Increases In the U.S. Alone. Music Publishers Won’t Be Seeing Much of That.
• Determination of Royalty Rates and Terms for Making and Distributing Phonorecords (Phonorecords IV)
• Bundle or Bungle in the [Streaming] Jungle: The Fight Over Mechanical Royalties
• The Lefsetz Letter

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Pick: Bob Dylan saved Ti-Tok

• TikTok says it will go dark on Jan. 19 unless given 'definitive' assurances
• TIKTOK IS ABOUT TO BE BANNED, SO BOB DYLAN JOINED THE APP TO SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT
• Bob Dylan joins TikTok — just in time for TikTok to be banned

• No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What

  the songs with a billion streams on

  Spotify tell us about music taste

  today

Prof Snyder's Music Biz News Ep 11

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AI and YOU

• YouTube Gives Creators the Option to Allow Third-Party AI Training

• Elon Musk says all human data for AI training ‘exhausted’

Live Sound Mental Health Resources

• Behind the Scenes Foundation

• Live Sound Makes Moves on Mental Health

Tour Health Research Initiative • www.tourhealth.org
ACM Lifting Lives • www.acmlifitinglives.com
The Roadie Clinic • www.theroadieclinic.com
Eccho Live • www.touringcareerworkshop.com

Live Sound and Tik Tok

• As TikTok Ban Looms Again, Record Labels ‘Need to Be Prepared’

• How the Live Music Industry Is Preparing for a TikTok Ban

Twitch as Alternative to Tik-Tok?

• THE KEY TO A HIT RAP SONG IN 2025? TWITCH STREAMERS

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Pick

• The Hit Song About Cannibalism Written by a Yacht-Rock King

• Link to Timothy Song