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Catamount Veritas, May, 2026
Volume 2, Issue 5 Google Lyria Ships C2PA This is honestly the biggest news in a long time, and I haven’t seen it reported anywhere. If you create music with Google Lyria and download the music file, it now has a C2PA manifest. This is a significant development, as they are the first major…
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Catamount Veritas, April 2026
Volume 2, Issue 4 I have been deep in the world of guitar pedals recently, and that has led me to some really amazing voices. One of my recent favorites is Emily Hopkins. She plays the harp and has amazing experience playing it through all kinds of pedals. And while not an engineer, she…
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Catamount Veritas, March 2026
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
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
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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Catamount Veritas
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
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
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
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
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…