Random music news for Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The science is in! Having too many tabs open on your computer’s browser is bad for your mental health. Now some music news for May 3, 2023. BONUS: More helpful science. We now
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Fascinated by the rapid developments with AI and music? Here’s a roundup of some of the week’s best stories
The use of artificial intelligence in music has suddenly become front-and-centre with everything, thanks to some recent deepfakes (cf. Ghostwriter and Drake/The Weeknd) and growing demands that someone do something about…well, everything involving
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What if this court case results in a ruling that means beats and rhythm can be copyrighted?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] When a jury ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up for their song Blurred Lines, a
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, March 17, 2023
Is Ryan Reynolds the richest Canadian entertainer ever. Maybe, now that this deal has gone down. Moving on to music news for March 17, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Gwyneth Paltrow
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OK Go, the band is being sued by a breakfast cereal manufacturer
Back in 1986, an ice cream lover named Jane Williamson wrote to the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vermont. The note read “We’re great fans of the Grateful Dead and we’re great
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Ongoing History Daily: AI and music
One of the biggest areas of computer science research is that of artificial intelligence. And because making music is such a human thing, scientists believe that creating a machine that makes credible, emotional,
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Muse vs. Celine Dion
Sounds like the guys in Muse were always keen on world domination and had some good advice on how to do it. Around the time of their first album, Showbiz, in 1999, they
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This guy says he has a solution to copyright infringement on YouTube
If you post music-related material on YouTube, it’s possible that you’ve had the indignity of having your content taken down because of alleged copyright infringement. This can be extremely frustrating because you might
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Canada is again on American sh*tlist when it comes to enforcing copyright
US government has just released its latest “notorious markets list” which names countries that don’t do a lot to enforce copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property. Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Venezuela
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Sanity prevails in the Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” plagiarism trial
Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the most-streamed song in the history of Spotify and has made Ed and his co-writers (including John McDaid of Snow Patrol) rich. But there a cloud hung
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RIAA takes swift action against HitPiece and warns any potential copycats to reconsider
Rarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire lit under it when it comes to addressing the NFT debacle created by
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