Gregor Pryor, Head of Entertainment & Media at law firm Reed Smith, explores the future of Web3 investment in the music industry
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Live music is falling apart.
The following MBW column comes from London-based music industry journalist and author Eamonn Forde
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Music in the Metaverse: Redefining music rights in the Web3 world
The following MBW op/ed comes from Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Owner/President, DMG Clearances, and a global expert on music rights clearances.
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India is home to the largest number of YouTube viewers in the world. But the platform’s music chart isn’t without flaws.
Amit Gurbaxani investigates why a lyric video with more than 400m views hasn’t charted on YouTube’s charts for India
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Web3 can help the music industry save the planet.
Serenade’s Mike Walsh makes the case for the climate benefits of Web3 tech
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Merck Mercuriadis on Lamont Dozier: ‘He was as important as any songwriter that has ever lived.’
Hipgnosis founder pays tribute to all-time great songwriter – while making a point about the rewards great composers get from the music industry
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‘As AI creative technologies become more common, the question of AI authorship is particularly important.’
In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music
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‘A publicly accessible platform on which anyone can make undeletable, tamper-proof assertions about their ownership of or contribution to music sounds like the foundations of anarchy’
The following MBW op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, Chief Information Officer at PPL, the UK’s music licensing company for over 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
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‘Streaming challenges can be met only by artists and labels working together.’
This MBW op/ed comes from Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the BPI, the UK’s trade body for the recorded music industry
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How to justify Bruce Springsteen’s skyrocketing ticket prices
MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team
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