United Musicians and Allied Workers
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Consolidation ruins culture. Nearly all the workers at BrooklynVegan, Alt Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been laid off thanks to parent company Veeps, owned by (you guessed it!) Live Nation.
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Tidal announced today that they will be demonetizing fully AI-generated tracks on their platform. Listeners will also be able to filter out all fully AI-generated content.
Deezer has debuted an AI music detector that works across all DSPs, not just theirs. Via @MusicAlly
We need to hold the major labels and their AI partners accountable!
Streamer Hasan Piker’s entry to the UK has been blocked over his support for Palestine. There is an active BDS call for SXSW to cut ties with the war machine and end their complicity in Israel’s genocide. Artist Ash Sarkar has pulled out of SXSW London in solidarity with Hasan.
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No matter how the CEO of Spotify tries to rebrand it, AI music will always be slop 🍅🍅🍅
Artists don’t want this! We need real protections for musicians against AI!
More worthless AI slop. There’s already rampant AI impersonation on the platform and thousands of songs trained on non-participating artists. We need REAL protections for artists against AI!
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a licensing deal that will let Spotify Premium users create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists and songwriters.
The upcoming tool will launch as a paid add-on and is designed to let artists and songwriters earn money from licensed fan-made AI covers and remixes.
Spotify says the model is built around “consent, credit, and compensation.”
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