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The Artist Economy

AI music has no rules yet.
Who gets to write them?

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Four perspectives.
One conversation.

Michael Walker · Building artist businesses

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Who writes the rules?

Suno’s CEO: no rules is good

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Your voice is now property

Zach Bryan, Macklemore and the shirt

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The Artist EconomyStory 01 · October 1

Suno’s CEO says no rules for AI music is a good thing.

The AI music giant, now “far beyond” 2 million paying users, told a Bloomberg stage the missing rulebook works in its favor.

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Kelly Clarkson says she loves AI. She just wants it off the human charts.

The first American Idol said AI artists on the same chart as people is “like having the Olympics, and then you’re having robots compete with humans”.

Should AI music get its own chart?

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California and a Tokyo court both said your voice is yours. On the same day.

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Sony has asked platforms to pull 260,000 AI fakes. Can you enforce your voice?

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Macklemore got cut for speaking up. Zach Bryan wore “Free Palestine” and broke a stadium record.

Weeks after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour, Zach Bryan wore the shirt in front of 73,538 people at Robert Kraft’s stadium.

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Yes or no.

The man behind $8 million in fake AI streams faces sentencing. Prison or probation?

A judge says the FTC’s scalping case against Ticketmaster can go ahead. Will fans ever notice a difference?

74% of independent artists made under $1,000 from music last year. Does that match your world?

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Angela Kane.
ENOUGH (Down).

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Watch it. Then hear why this song.

Angela, why this song?

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Your music.
Our next conversation.

Angela sent us one short video.
Today they sat at this table.

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The Artist Economy

Four perspectives.One conversation.

Who writes the rules?

Suno’s CEO says no rules for AI music is a good thing.

Kelly Clarkson says she loves AI. She just wants it off the human charts.

California and a Tokyo court both said your voice is yours. On the same day.

Macklemore got cut for speaking up. Zach Bryan wore “Free Palestine” and broke a stadium record.

Three quick ones.Yes or no.

Angela Kane.ENOUGH (Down).

One thing that actually happened

Make one call.Give it a date.

Your music.Our next conversation.

Four perspectives.
One conversation.

Three quick ones.
Yes or no.

Angela Kane.
ENOUGH (Down).

Make one call.
Give it a date.

Your music.
Our next conversation.

The Artist Economy

Event Summary

Moments