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Catamount Veritas, March 2026
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Volume 2, Issue 3 Don’t Steal This Substack! Maybe we are the only ones that didn’t realize that Ed Newton-Rex has a Substack entitled Don’t Steal This Blog. And if you didn’t know, you do know now, so go now and subscribe. Immediately after I did, I got his latest piece: LLMs Memorise Their…
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Catamount Veritas, February 2026
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Wading Into the Generative Music Debate AI-generated music continues to be a hot topic, so it’s time to check in with where we are right now. From an ethical perspective, we have a few different classes of companies. There are those who knowingly trained on content without authorization—claiming fair use or some other declaration—and…
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Catamount Veritas, January 2026
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Volume 2, Issue 1 will.i.am gives a frustrating interview We kicked off the year with will.i.am declaring that AI heralds a new “Renaissance” for creatives. In a Bloomberg interview, he says he is more worried about his accountant than his drummer. He seems to want to avoid saying that AI would become prevalent in…
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November, 2025 Volume 1, Issue #7 Suno pitch deck breaks social media We’ll get to my axe to grind in a moment, but first. Of course Suno was going to settle. This is one of the more expected outcomes in the whole generative AI music sector. But Kristin Robinson at Billboard got the pitch…
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Catamount Veritas, October 2025
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Volume 1, Issue 6 An Inside Look at Audacity When I’m producing music, I think of my tools as a technology pipeline or a toolchain. It usually starts with LogicPro and all the associated plugins and agents. But once you have a final track, there are plenty of other tools that come into play.…
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Catamount Veritas, September 2025
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Volume 1, Issue 5 Greetings, and welcome to fall. It’s been a busy month and we are getting ready for the annual Production Music Association conference (PMC 2025) next week, so if you are going to be there and watch to network or talk music provenance, reach out to info@catamountmusic.com. How to get ahead…
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Catamount Veritas, August 2025
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As always, we explore the crucial intersection of generative AI, artist rights, and sync music
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Catamount Music Commits to Media Authenticity with CAI
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Joining the CAI underscores our dedication to ensuring the integrity and transparency of our artistic creations. The Content Authenticity Initiative is a cross-industry movement focused on restoring trust and transparency in the age of AI, providing an open and extensible approach for media transparency to allow for better evaluation of content. This partnership perfectly…
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Will Content Deals Kill the Sync Business?
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Introduction Most sync music composers I know are working with libraries that have strict, no generative AI policies. This is to protect against infringement, and AI is just one of the ways libraries protect themselves. This has put a lot of composers into the mindset that they don’t need to worry about generative AI…
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How Many Guitars Do I Need?
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Before I got into production music, this was kind of an academic question. I have actually only bought two guitars since starting the business. One is an acoustic resonator, the other a lap steel. I didn’t own any kind of either of these. Neither was very expensive, either-both were well under $500. But I…