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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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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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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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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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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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As always, we explore the crucial intersection of generative AI, artist rights, and sync music