LyricFind Acquires UK Video Creation Platform Rotor Videos; The Forgotten Bands Going Supersonic Thanks to Gen Z
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LyricFind acquires UK video creation platform Rotor Videos
In addition, LyricFind and CD Baby have entered into a partnership to launch integrations of both the Rotor Videos tool and LyricFind’s Lyric Video Enterprise solution. It will enable CD Baby artists to quickly create video content directly on the CD Baby platform.
‘We’re on TikTok? What’s TikTok?’ The forgotten bands going supersonic thanks to gen Z
Ageing acts that can’t even get radio time are going viral – and finding themselves playing arenas or even soundtracking Ukrainian resistance. But how do you follow up a hit no one can explain?
Copyright Challenges in AI-Generated Music: Who Really Owns the Melody?
As its popularity grows, the debate over AI-generated music copyright and authorship heats up, and a number of legal battles explode. Who owns the rights?
2024 will be a year of change (as if there has not been enough already)
As content proliferation (especially AI fakes) and algorithmic filter bubbles undermine consumers’ trust in and value of the digital world, some will increasingly return to real-world certainty outside of their phones. Others will dive into its escapism, going all-in on digital communities and feel-good content.
Will 2024 be the year of the direct mindset?
The commercial side of the arts feels just as unhinged and contradictory. The long tail is dead, increasingly and purposefully cut off from the anodyne hydra-heads of celebs and stars and heavyweight influencers. Big legacy media companies continue to collapse and consolidate. The creator economy is fragmenting, as platforms lose steam, becoming more and more like crappy broadcasters or pennysavers, while creators demand ownership of their data, audience, and creations.
Hipgnosis Songs Fund delays finance results because of catalogue valuation concerns
The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has delayed publication of its latest financial results because “the board has concerns as to the valuation of the company's assets”
There Goes The Last DJ
If you're in the radio business, but were oblivious to the Jim Ladd Era, you truly missed something special. And a run not the least bit likely to happen again. Ladd spent pretty much his entire broadcast radio career entertaining So Cal audiences – at KLOS, KMET, and at KLSX. I signed on the latter for Greater Media in 1986. Later, Ladd would join the station at night for a tumultuous run.
There's a lot to know and appreciate about Ladd, the radio personality, and Ladd the man. One of the many rock artists he connected with was Tom Petty, who recorded a great album. And it's title song was inspired by the legendary Jim Ladd, “The Last DJ.”
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