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Op-ed: Paul Bonham from the MMF on how Accelerator supports music managers
Everyone knows a talented independent music manager in need of support. Help is at hand via the MMF's Accelerator Programme, supported by YouTube Music…
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Op-ed: Dorothea Thompson of Bray & Krais on the Morrissey + Marr trademark tensions
After Morrissey and Johnny Marr had a public set-to about the trademark THE SMITHS, Dorothea Thompson takes a look at the ins and outs of trademark registration and how to sort things out…
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Op-ed: Jonathan Coote of Bray & Krais on AI and fair use
As the Suno and Udio lawsuits make their way through the courts, the fundamental issue in the cases is likely to be whether the 'fair use' defence can be successfully run for the training of AI tools on copyright works. Jonathan Coote examines the issue in more detail…
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Op-ed: Cyanite CEO Markus Schwarzer on why keywords still matter for music data
Markus Schwarzer, CEO and co-founder of Cyanite argues that however powerful search algorithms become, keywords remain a fundamental part of the toolkit for catalogue management, acquisitions and marketing…
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Op-ed: Forget AI vocal clones - the real impact of AI in music is personalised discovery
AI is going to hyper-accelerate the shift to personalised discovery of music, by making the existing discovery algorithms of the various platforms much more sophisticated and much more customised to the tastes of individual listeners say Duetti CEO and co-founder Lior Tibon…
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Sound City’s Becky Ayres: “The music business’ talent pipeline is blocked by an image problem”
Becky Ayres, Managing Director of Liverpool Sound City, considers a blockage in the music industry's executive talent pipeline and how more outreach into schools is the solution…
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The F-List’s Vick Bain on UK Parliament’s Misogyny In Music report and the industry’s next steps
Researcher and consultant Vick Bain welcomes the new report from Parliament’s Women And Equalities Committee on Misogyny In Music and outlines how the industry should respond to it…