MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #27

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Matt

n ‘The Song Economy is just getting started’ I looked at how major catalogue songs such as Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’, Toto’s Africa and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You had all spent many years accumulating streams (audio and video), radio plays and ultimately for their copyright owners, revenues.

In a climate where the music subscription market is projected to grow from $8.9 billion in 2019 to $17.3 billion by 2024, Spotify could play less of a role in this rise than you may think.

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.

AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist? The word "human" does not appear at all in US copyright law, and there’s not much existing litigation around the word’s absence. This has created a giant gray area and left AI’s place in copyright unclear.

By understanding how an individual's heart reacts to musical changes, scientists plan to design tailored music interventions to elicit the desired response.

Long an afterthought to YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, Twitch has won over musicians. Now it must deal with their lawyers.

Launching and scaling a startup can be difficult on its own, but combined with the pandemic and recession can seem nearly impossible. Entrepreneurs in sectors like music tech are fighting to survive. Music tech investor David Dufresne from Panache Ventures offers his perspective to assist startups.

Written By Jake Colvin (NKC) Where is the money in music? Lars Holdhus asked himself this question on a panel discussion at Sonar in 2016, and he seemed totally baffle

CASH Music, a nonprofit designed to provide “open-source tools to artists looking to promote and sell their music online,” is shutting down.

Good vibrations: how Bandcamp became the heroes of streaming | Music streaming | The Guardian