As small independent free radio station we had to pay an annual overall fee to the rights holders. This is bad for independent, underrepresented artists, because on average they are played more and get less. But it was a huge burden to come up with exact set lists for each individual radiomaker without technical help.
KTRU, one of the world's biggest independent stations, still prefers physical records over digital. But even they have now technical support, because they were forced to stream digitally, so they have exact set lists and pay the independents much more. They only play independents, major labels are forbidden.
Among other things, I am also a musician and composer, and I also was a music and video producer years ago.
However, I have distanced myself from the collecting societies long ago and now distribute most of my music for free and under a Creative Commons license on my website (http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3).
After analyzing the publicly available financial figures of some collecting societies, it became clear to me that as a musician it is much more helpful if people are able to listen to my music without hindrance (paywalls, etc.), compared to the small amount of revenue that copyrights generate. In my view, copyrights collecting and enforcement are clearly an anachronism that tends to get in the way of most musicians and composers today rather than helping them.
So video cards killed the instrument player. Musicians won't go extinct though, it's just the market value of back catalogues and discographies going to zero without government intervention.
Still, Gen AI won't stop being effective at instant style transfer because of "Don't train on me" laws. The knock on benefits of AI related upstarts in UK will be lost however.
As small independent free radio station we had to pay an annual overall fee to the rights holders. This is bad for independent, underrepresented artists, because on average they are played more and get less. But it was a huge burden to come up with exact set lists for each individual radiomaker without technical help.
KTRU, one of the world's biggest independent stations, still prefers physical records over digital. But even they have now technical support, because they were forced to stream digitally, so they have exact set lists and pay the independents much more. They only play independents, major labels are forbidden.
But AI miners paying nothing is ridicolous.
Among other things, I am also a musician and composer, and I also was a music and video producer years ago.
However, I have distanced myself from the collecting societies long ago and now distribute most of my music for free and under a Creative Commons license on my website (http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3).
After analyzing the publicly available financial figures of some collecting societies, it became clear to me that as a musician it is much more helpful if people are able to listen to my music without hindrance (paywalls, etc.), compared to the small amount of revenue that copyrights generate. In my view, copyrights collecting and enforcement are clearly an anachronism that tends to get in the way of most musicians and composers today rather than helping them.
So video cards killed the instrument player. Musicians won't go extinct though, it's just the market value of back catalogues and discographies going to zero without government intervention.
Still, Gen AI won't stop being effective at instant style transfer because of "Don't train on me" laws. The knock on benefits of AI related upstarts in UK will be lost however.