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Looking ahead, and a year back.
 
Names in Today's Pod:
iHeart Media
Sony Music
Spotify
Ed Christman
Ashley King
Lit
Justin Beiber
 
 
Birthdays this week:
Lisa Wolf
Liberty Lucken
Marisol Segal
Myles Grosovsky
Andrew Stess
JP Olsen
Paul Sinclair
 
LINKS:
iHeart's Showola Settlement
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/iheartmedia-settles-fcc-payola-probe-at-its-live-music-events-with-no-fine-and-no-admission-of-liability/
Spotify losing in podcasting to YouTube
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/10/spotify-podcasting-cant-compete-youtube/
But... Bundlegate Offsets Spotify Podcast Losses
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-bundles-how-much-decreased-per-stream-rate/
Lit gets its second hit
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/lit-the-band-behind-pop-punk-hit-my-own-worst-enemy-settles-sony-music-streaming-royalty-lawsuit/
One year ago SWAG Topped out at "contender"
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/theres-swag-all-over-this-2025-07-12
 
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$10 Million in Interest alone?
 
Names in the pod today:
Primary Wave
Revelator
Jermaine Dupri
Bill Donahue
So So Def
Sony Music
Kobalt
Laurent Hubert
Foreigner
Bruno Guez
Ahuvah Berger
Murray Stassen
Warner Music Group
Primary Wave
Death Cab For Cutie
Jordan Kurland
 
Links in Comments...
 
LINKS:
WMG-Revelator goes operational
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-group-folds-africori-and-qanawat-into-ada-amid-emea-expansion-led-by-howard-corner/
10 Mil is just interest!
https://www.billboard.com/pro/jermaine-dupri-sues-sony-music-for-18m-in-unpaid-royalties/   
Kobalt deal closes
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/done-deal-primary-waves-acquisition-of-kobalt-has-closed/
The Foreigner Mick Jones, not the Clash one
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/primary-wave-mick-jones-deal/
 
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Song of the week: Death Ca
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lagnkDIqhhoeTPzfdbDRh?si=167dcf3362df45f8
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/cae8e2c2d2e941f184d856c31b86dba3sune?
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Calling all Labels and Managers: Let's build an agent!
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Chris Eggertsen
Sarah Trahern
Brittany Schaffer
Ed Sheeran
Ashley King
Live Nation
Front Gate
Ian Carroll
Men In Blazers
The Kennedy Center
Oscar Arelliz
 
 
LINKS:
Upgrading your Grainge
https://www.https://www.billboard.com/pro/ed-sheeran-sign-interscope-records/billboard.com/pro/ed-sheeran-sign-interscope-records/
CMA has new head
https://www.billboard.com/pro/cma-names-brittany-schaffer-next-chief-executive-officer/
Let's Build an Agent! Suggestions here
You Go Ian!
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/01/hacker-claude-music-tickets-website/
Orange Stain Removal 1
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show/
Orange Stain Removal 2
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/trump-name-kennedy-center-appeals-court-ruling/
Live Nation doesn't just take the W
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/06/live-nation-usa-v-live-nation-verdict-appeal/
A Clive Live Epiphany
https://news.pollstar.com/2026/06/30/a-musical-revolution-how-live-music-inspired-clive-davis-to-disrupt-columbia-records-and-the-industry/?
 
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Even Gen Z support social media bans? Wow.
 
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Names in the pod today:
WIllie Upbin
Weekday Management
Anna Spaulding
Tyler Richman
Richard E. Grant
Raffaela Braun
Annie Ortmeier
Andrew Hutchinson
TikTok
Netflix
 
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The oldest script
https://www.billboard.com/pro/geese-weekday-management-news/
A great script
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/07/spice-girls-reclaim-rights-to-spice-world/
Go (Triple) Tigers!
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/raffaella-braun-promoted-to-co-president-of-triple-tigers-records/
Social Media Bans are Popular
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/majority-of-us-adults-support-social-media-bans/824299/
X upgrades livestream tools
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-launches-livestream-studio-to-simplify-live-broadcasts/824300/
TikTok Competes with its creators
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-launches-branded-microdramas/824044/
More Shortform Pollution on Netflix
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/netflix-dabbles-in-shorter-video-content-with-its-new-set-of-publisher-deals-with-variety-others/
 
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/@lydiavalentino/videos 
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Keep an eye on that Suno API.
 
Names in the pod Today
Kalshi
Polymarket
Rick Rubin
Travis Bland
Weird Al Yankovic
Scooter Braun
Ariel King
Suno
Jack Brody
Murray Stassen
Scooter Braun
Hybe
Ashley King
Rachel Scharf
Udio
Sony Music
 
 
LINKS
Scooting off the Hybe Board
https://www.billboard.com/pro/scooter-braun-leaves-hybe-board-of-directors/
Another Streaming Fraud Business Model (fails)
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/03/spotify-kalshi-streaming-fraud/
Rick Rubin Brand destruction
https://consequence.net/2026/06/rick-rubin-in-ads-during-the-world-cup/
https://consequence.net/2024/11/pete-townshend-someone-needs-to-slap-rick-rubin/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/polymarkets-marketing-team-made-some-very-bad-bets.html?
Weird Al Brand Non-Destruction
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/02/weird-al-yankovic-ai-ad-interview/
Suno's API is important
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-explores-developer-api-seeking-apps-that-unlock-experiences-generative-music-makes-possible-for-the-first-time/
Another week another Suno Lawsuit
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-training-copyright-lawsuit-production-music-firm/
Score one for team AI
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/05/suno-admissible-infringed-works-argument/
First day of School Guide to Agentic AI
https://www.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/ewp-m/documents/thomsonreuters/en/pdf/reports/agentic-ai-101-tr5737938.pdf
 
 
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If you've ever wondered what a petard actually is, well, give this a listen.
 
Names in Today's Pod:
Howie SInger
Taylor Swift
Travis Kelce
LinkedIn
Nameless Linkedin Perps
Anthropic
Claude
MIT
 
Birthdays this week:
Jem Aswad
Jon Vlassopolous
Dan Mackta
Doug Ford Mixie
Links in the comments...
 
LINKS:
Great Minds and AI Petards
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-getting-harder-keep-up-howie-singer-9j1ae?
Swelce, Tayvis?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/style/taylor-swift-wedding-celebrity-guests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.billboard.com/lists/what-we-know-about-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/03/ny-congresswoman-comments-swelce-wedding/
We Asked Claude to reconcile its Alibaba Suit with its Fair Use argument (see full text below)
 
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Hey Claude: If using unlicensed music and books as training data is "fair use," why isn't Alibaba copying your code also "fair use?"
 
This is a sharp consistency challenge, and the tension is real. Let me lay out both the legal distinctions people actually make and where those distinctions strain.
The arguments for why they're different:
The core fair use argument for training is transformativeness— the model doesn't reproduce the work, it extracts statistical patterns to build something new. Alibaba copying code wholesale is direct reproduction, not transformation. Courts have generally been more sympathetic to transformation than copying.
There's also a market substitutionargument: a trained model doesn't replace the original book in the market, whereas copied code directly competes with and substitutes for the original product.
Where your challenge lands:
Those distinctions are weaker than they look. Alibaba could argue their model trained onAnthropic's code is transformative and doesn't substitute for Claude. The transformativeness argument cuts the same way.
More pointedly: the "fair use" framing often reflects whose ox is being gored. Companies with valuable IP tend to argue for strong copyright when others copy them, and for fair use when they need to train on others' data. That's not a legal position — it's a business interest dressed as one.
The honest answer is that the law hasn't settled this. Several cases (Suno, Midjourney, Meta's LLaMA) are still working through courts. There are real arguments that large-scale commercial training isn'tfair use — which would also resolve your consistency problem, just not in AI companies' favor.
The philosophical problem you're pointing at — that the same entity can't coherently hold "training on your stuff is fair use" and "copying our stuff is infringement" — is a genuine inconsistency that critics of the industry have raised repeatedly and that nobody has answered cleanly.

Predatory and well-organized sharks backed by Predatory and well-organized sharks
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Eric Silver
Clearlake Capital
Stubhub
Fan Fair Alliance
YouTube
Ariel King
Murray Stassen
Craig A. Meyer
Gary Arbuthnot
GigLogic
 
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YouTube is hoovering your data for Training
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/google-says-ai-training-is-fair-use-and-copyright-should-be-policed-on-outputs-not-inputs/
Michael > Oppy
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/michael-jackson-movie-overtakes-oppenheimer-as-biggest-biopic-ever-with-1-billion-in-sight/
PE Backed Scalping
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/30/stubhub-uk-arena-tickets-investigation/
Illinois provides scalping relief
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/30/illinois-ticketing-laws
What's behind those ticket prices?
https://www.billboard.com/pro/touring-costs-calculated-new-platform-artists-evaluate-gigs/
 
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Time is a flat circle that lasts exactly 32 years.
 
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Names in the pod today:
Oskar Eichler
Jamie Sampson
Eliah Seton
Virgin Music Group
Sarah Landy
Jacquelyn Saturn
Molly Neuman
Zack Gershen
Ariel King
Soundcloud
Twitch
Eliah Seton
TikTok
iHeart
David Rosenberg
 
LINKS
Virgin and Downtown smooshed together
https://www.billboard.com/pro/virgin-music-new-leadership-team-downtown-integration/
MadonnaxiHeartxTikTok
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/29/tiktok-iheartradio-madonna-confessions-ii-preview/?
SoundCloudxTwitch makes sense
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/25/soundcloud-twitch-dj-performance-series/
Songstats
https://songstats.com/
Socialstats
https://socialstats.com/
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/@lydiavalentino/videos 
 
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Slopbusters Activate!
 
Names in the pod Today
Tidal
Tony Gervino
Suno
Sarah Perez
Murray Stassen
Paul Sinclair
Virginie Berger
Suno
Walter de Brouwer
Anthropic
Alibaba
Brian Erickson
The Great Albums Podcast
 
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Tidal Addresses slop
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/tidal-cracks-down-on-ai-music-by-cutting-off-monetization/
Virginie's ways to Spot the Bots.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/ai-music-artists/
Money to independents is good
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-is-paying-grants-to-independent-artists-so-long-as-they-agree-never-to-criticize-suno/
Walter de Brouwer has a vision
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-ghost-in-the-machine-wants-a-cut/
Fair use for me, not for thee. Let's ask Claude
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/anthropic-fighting-lawsuits-over-alleged-copying-of-song-lyrics-accuses-alibaba-of-copying-claude-to-train-a-rival-ai/
 
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It's CD Redemption Week With Axegrinders from the Great Albums podcast
 
Names in Today's Pod:
 
Bill Lambusta
Brian Erickson
iHeart media
Defqon.1
Solidays
Ariel KIng
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
Virterras Materials 
Warner Music Group
Madonna
The Great Albums Podcast
 
Birthdays this week:
Andrea Troolin
Margaret Jacobi
Matt Kroepel
Pablo Douzouglou
Richard James Burgess
 
Links in the comments...
 
LINKS:
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-launches-pilot-with-indie-record-stores-to-test-whether-fans-unwanted-vinyl-can-be-recycled/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/eu-festival-cancellations-heatwave/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/madonna-ai-algorithm-commentary/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/26/iheartmedia-broad-layoffs-2026/
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