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AI-generated music is Russian roulette for copyright law
Sometimes AI models "memorize" their datasets and commit copyright infringement.
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James Mishra

February 2022

web3 promised to help artists. Instead it stole their copyrights
No protocol can offer "censorship resistance" and also protect rightsholders.
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James Mishra

January 2022

The music industry wants to build web3. But can they secure it?
Your DAO is a democracy... if you can keep it.
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James Mishra

July 2021

Inside Audioshake, using AI to recreate lost stems for hit songs
AI can help place classic songs into new works.
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James Mishra
NFTs won't save the recorded music industry, but they might save the live events industry
NFTs don't make music more enjoyable, but they could put an end to event ticket sellers' dishonest practices.
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James Mishra

January 2021

Will live concerts come back before Viagogo and StubHub fall apart?
Eric Baker cofounded both companies. Can he save them?
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James Mishra
Songkick's fall from grace
Most startups die of suicide. But Songkick was murdered.
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James Mishra
The #BrokenRecord movement's quest to "fix" the music industry (and why they are wrong)
Artists don't make a lot of money on Spotify because Spotify doesn't make a lot of money.
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James Mishra
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September 2020

How we could design Kanye's "Y Combinator for Music"
And more importantly, how not to.
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James Mishra

August 2020

The wall between record labels and music streaming platforms is about to collapse
How TikTok and UnitedMasters are about to change the balance of power in the music biz.
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James Mishra

June 2020

Merck Mercuriadis and his billion-dollar empire are the heroes that songwriters need
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd is a war machine air-dropping money to successful musicians.
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James Mishra
How Ice-T's song "Cop Killer" enraged police departments
A parable of political speech.
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James Mishra
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