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“Using books to teach children to write is not remotely like using books to create a product that a single individual could employ to generate countless competing works…This inapt analogy is not a basis for blowing off the most important factor in the fair use analysis.” Ouch!

A crucial read as Congress considers cuts to Medicaid.

Good advice.

Musician communities may be hit hard but they aren’t the only ones who’ll lose protections if AI firms get their way.

🚨 REPUBLICAN GOVS OPPOSE AI MORATORIUM: Governors from AL, AK, GA, ID, IA, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND OK, SC, SD, TN, UT, WY sent a joint letter to Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson to remove the Big Tech handout from the reconciliation package.

In the same week that a judge said AI training often won’t be fair use, and that all rights holders need to do to win lawsuits is show the effect on their market… … a new AI band gets 400,000 monthly listeners and shows up in people’s Spotify Discover Weekly. Market effects

The Blackburn-Cruz compromise includes a loophole that continues to subject many AI/kids safety laws to the moratorium - even the ELVIS Act. The new language only upholds laws that don't place a "disproportionate burden " on AI. See Institute for Law & AI's analysis: law-ai.org/the-ai-morator…

This provision sure doesn’t have any support from musicians and songwriters

New reporting today showing the absolute flood of AI music on Spotify. - 'Aventhis' has more than a million monthly Spotify listeners; one of his tracks has 2 million+ plays; he has released 57 songs in 4 months; he has an official Spotify-generated ‘THIS IS… Aventhis'

A win for musician and songwriter groups, who forcefully opposed this provision.

Amazing effort by a coalition of public interest and consumer groups, online safety organizations, and artist-songwriter advocates to stop the harmful state AI moratorium. Thank you Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Maria Cantwell and all those who listened.

This really was a remarkably broad and diverse coalition.

This morning, at approximately 4:30 a.m., the Senate overwhelmingly supported musicians' and creators' rights. With a vote tally of 99 to 1, an amendment was passed to eliminate the ban on AI regulations. Thanks to our collective efforts with a diverse group of stakeholders, what

Whenever any artist big or small makes a move like this, it’s easy for observers to say “it won’t change anything.” But exercising autonomy and making the choices that square with your values is an important part of how artists create new and expanded possibilities.

With strong bipartisan support, Senator Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Sen. Maria Cantwell, and Ed Markey helped strike down a proposed 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Their action ensures laws like Tennessee’s ELVIS Act — which protects artists from unauthorized AI use of their name, voice

While we’re glad the AI regulation ban is out of the budget bill, the health care cuts are deeply worrying; lots of musicians are likely to be impacted.

Worth a listen. What liz pelly uncovered about Ghost Artists and Discovery Mode is likely grounds for an FTC enforcement action/rulemaking on deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition.

Franz is one of the most insightful chroniclers of music labor from the ground level. Always worth engaging with his insights, especially when they challenge your assumptions.

Among the good points that Franz makes in this piece: AFM doesn’t get as much attention/credit as is probably deserved. Yesterday’s win on the AI moratorium is a good example.

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