For the past two centuries, composers, academics and fans of classical music have puzzled over Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, which he abandoned in 1822 after writing the first two movements. Now Lucas Cantor, a Los Angeles-based composer for film and television, has finished the work Schubert started — with help from artificial intelligence that runs on a smartphone.
Source: AI can now compose pop music and even symphonies. Here’s how composers are joining in.
The Media Communication Union, which represents the interests of major media and telecoms companies in Russia, has revealed its new anti-piracy system. Set to be delivered to copyright holders in July, the system is said to utilize neural networks in order to self-learn while reducing the need for human intervention.
Source: Media & Telecoms Companies Reveal “Self-Learning” Anti-Piracy System – TorrentFreak
Boy George believes he has lost hundreds of millions in royalty fees over the decades and wants to stop the bleeding. The gender-bending pop star and the band he fronted, Culture Club, are linking up with independent music publishing firm Primary Wave to recoup the rights — and future profits — to hit songs like “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”.
Source: Boy George inks deal to market songs, recoup copyrights
Entering the correct information about a song sounds like it should be easy enough, but metadata problems have plagued the music industry for decades. Not only are there no standards for how music metadata is collected or displayed, there’s no need to verify the accuracy of a song’s metadata before it gets released, and there’s no one place where music metadata is stored.
Source: Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
The first anniversary of the privacy law comes as the U.S. rethinks its own legal framework governing data collection. Congress is exploring what could potentially be the nation’s first federal consumer data protection law, but lawmakers involved in the negotiations have reported little progress after nearly a year of talks.
Source: One year later, EU privacy law faces tough questions
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AI music generation platform Amadeus Code has landed $1.8 million in Series A funding.The round was led by VC firm World Innovation Lab. WiL’s Masataka Matsumoto will join coompany’sboard. Amadeus Code is an artificial intelligence-powered songwriting assistant that breaks melodies down into their constituent parts (“licks”) and transforms them into data.
Source: AI Generated Music Gets $1.8M Boost With Amadeus Code Investment From World Innovation Lab
With 5G coming to the market, will the massive increase in speed result in a return to downloading music and thereby a shift away from streaming? By using 5G instead of 4G, projections show that the average consumer will save more than 3 hours when downloading a library of 10,000 songs, while saving a total of approximately 23 hours per month across the entirety of their online entertainment engagements.
Proxima Media, a firm founded by film producer Ryan Kavanaugh, has raised $100 million for a token that allows investment in film, TV and music. Proxicoin is built on the ethereum blockchain and allows fractional ownership of film, television, music and other IP-driven content even for small investors, according to the firm.
Source: Hollywood Producer Raises $100 Million for Media-Focused Security Token – CoinDesk
Streaming music is approaching a decision point. Right now, music subscriptions are doing a fantastic job of monetising consumption, but next we need to learn how to monetise fandom.
Source: How ByteDance May Just Be About to Drive the Next Streaming Paradigm