“AI goes around the internet and scrapes all of the lyrics but never provides any credits,” says Bryan-Kinns. “If an AI makes a song, gets famous, went to No 1, who would get money from them? Certainly not the people in the huge dataset of millions of songs. …
Last summer, the [UK] government set out proposals to amend copyright laws that would allow AI creators to exploit musicians’ back catalogues without permission or compensation.
Ive made a good side career selling lp vinyl, given how poor the contemporary state of the music industry is. The worse the state of the economy the more these old artifacts become assets of economic significant.
Funny old world, given how these things used to be more of a casual object when the music industry was more equal and less parasitic.
Given how Covid has decimated most musicians ability to make money, let alone the amount of recording that bigger and more established artists did during the pandemic I would hate to be a young performer.
Oh I’ve seen this and I’m glad this is a thing; not exactly reselling old vinyls, but the fact underground artists are able to release new/old stuff in vinyl format with wonderfully-production made with the heart instead of solely profit in mind.
I have come to known a very good young performer, but that workpath was just impossible. As I see it, doing music or art at this point is only good for individual/collective human expression; totally unfeasible doing a career over it as it is meaningless at this point.