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20,000 Music Tracks Uploaded to Deezer Daily are Entirely AI-Generated, a 100% Increase in 2 mos

June 3, 2025 Bruce Berman

Does AI turn good into good enough, or does it make good better? This tricky question applies especially to AI-created music and other content, which

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Singer-Songwriter-Journalist: “Tech is Making it Impossible for Many Creators to Survive”

November 12, 2024 Bruce Berman

The Paranoid Style is a successful DC-based indie band formed in 2012 and fronted by singer-songwriter Elizabeth Nelson, who is dubious about the fate of

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‘The Playlist’ Series on Netflix Dramatizes the Rise and Imagined Fall of Spotify

March 28, 2023 Bruce Berman

The Playlist, a fictionalized account of the ascent of Spotify, the most popular if not most successful music streaming service, that looks forward to how

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$17 for 1 Million Streams – Songwriter Says Digital Access has Devalued Content, Creativity

November 8, 2022 Bruce Berman

“Creatively music better today, because gatekeepers going away was helpful,” says singer-songwriter David Lowery,” but I think that largely it’s a much worse environment for

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$550M Springsteen Catalogue Sale is Biggest Ever; Capital Gains Taxes and Low Interest Rates May Have Played a Role

December 21, 2021 Bruce Berman

With the backing of leading private equity funds and record labels, celebrity singer-song writers such as Bob Dylan, Prince and Neil Young, are cashing in on strong long-term demand

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The Strange Economics of Streaming May Add Up for Fans But Not For Most Musicians

June 8, 2021 Bruce Berman

Streaming may have saved the recording industry from the loss of CD sales, but it has not helped most musicians earn a basic living. Recent

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Listeners Yearn for the Sound of Classic Tunes, Feeding Investor Interest in Copyrights

December 14, 2020 Bruce Berman

With the pandemic curtailing live performance and new acts scarce to emerge, listeners turning to classics by rock artists like Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift

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Music royalty streams are attracting the interest of yield-hungry investors

October 8, 2019 Bruce Berman

How songs get distributed and owners compensated for them have upended the music industry. Through it all, copyright royalties have remained attractive – especially when

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Why a $1.6B billion law suit for non-payment of royalties is not likely to affect Spotify’s March IPO

February 12, 2018 Bruce Berman

Spotify recently filed confidential plans for an initial public offering to take place on March 31 on the New York Stock Exchange were thrown a curve

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Royalty rates paid musicians decline for some streaming services

January 29, 2018 Bruce Berman

When it comes to getting paid, the bigger streaming service is not necessarily better for most musicians and song writers. While the revenue and market

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Apple is seeking to cut license royalties paid to record labels

July 2, 2017 Bruce Berman

While the share of revenue from streaming paid to record labels and recording artists is rising, Apple Inc., among the fairest licensees in on-line music,

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