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Op-ed: Dorothea Thompson of Bray & Krais on the Morrissey + Marr trademark tensions

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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…

CMU Contributors • 23 Oct 2024

Op-ed: Jonathan Coote of Bray & Krais on AI and fair use

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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…

CMU Contributors • 03 Sep 2024

Op-ed: Cyanite CEO Markus Schwarzer on why keywords still matter for music data

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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…

CMU Contributors • 28 Aug 2024

Op-ed: Forget AI vocal clones - the real impact of AI in music is personalised discovery

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Music AI • 8 min read

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…

CMU • 10 Apr 2024

Sound City’s Becky Ayres: “The music business’ talent pipeline is blocked by an image problem”

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Industry Issues • 4 min read

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…

Becky Ayres • 07 Feb 2024

The F-List’s Vick Bain on UK Parliament’s Misogyny In Music report and the industry’s next steps

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Industry Issues • 5 min read

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…

Vick Bain • 31 Jan 2024