Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
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The music industry has never wanted to pay the creators. AI has now given them more tools in their fight to keep all the money. Be prepared to show work product.

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This is true, not only in the music business, but many of the arts. The artist buys the paint, the canvas, buys the frame, pays for it to be mounted, puts it in the gallery, and the gallery takes 60% of the money.

Many of the one-hit wonders made zero on their million selling records because the label too from their royalties, exaggerated recording, distribution, and promotion fees. Then they controlled the publishing rights, and so much more.

We make art because we love to do it. The "art" brain is often not good at business. The distribution companies (labels, spotify, galleries) have the deck stacked in their favor, and the supply of artists is much, much greater than the demand. So we get the crumbs off the table.

Add to that fact, the audience will pretty much buy whatever the mass media sells them. AI might not be able to write the best songs, but that doesn't matter. When the media hammers the fact that this song is the latest and greatest and all the "in" people are buying it, it will sell.

And you can bet, the AI written song will have a name on the copyright for some human or corporation to rake in the creator's royalties.

This is all my opinion, based on a lifetime in the music business. I could be wrong about it.


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