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With experience across entertainment, culture, gaming, and venture ecosystems, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective that connects traditional copyright management with emerging technologies.",[761,762,764],"h2",{"id":763},"in-this-edition-she-shares-her-insights-into-how-century-old-institutions-are-innovating-to-meet-modern-challenges-like-ai-training-data-and-blockchain-as-a-researcher-and-expert-in-composable-culture-she-breaks-down-the-intersection-of-creative-rights-and-tech-innovation-were-excited-to-share-her-perspective-on-the-stories-shaping-the-industry-today-to-get-future-issues-of-musictech-insights-straight-to-your-inbox-subscribe-on-our-site","In this edition, she shares her insights into how century-old institutions are innovating to meet modern challenges like AI training data and blockchain. As a researcher and expert in \"Composable Culture,\" she breaks down the intersection of creative rights and tech innovation. We’re excited to share her perspective on the stories shaping the industry today. To get future issues of MusicTech Insights straight to your inbox, subscribe on our site.",[761,766,768],{"id":767},"what-cmos-can-teach-us-about-innovation-in-uncertain-times","What CMOs Can Teach Us About Innovation in Uncertain Times",[738,770,771],{},[772,773,774],"em",{},"Hi, I’m Joanna.",[738,776,777],{},[772,778,779],{},"Have you ever wondered what happens when an organization that has been protecting creators’ rights since before the invention of the radio decides it needs to understand blockchain, AI training data, and API interoperability?",[738,781,782],{},[772,783,784],{},"You get something fascinating and increasingly necessary. For those unfamiliar with CMOs, these are organizations that manage copyright on behalf of creators. They collect royalties when your song plays in a café in Warsaw or is streamed by a fan in Australia, ensuring you get paid when your composition appears in a German advertisement. In short, they are highly creator-focused, ensuring that people behind music, text, or image creation are fairly and consistently compensated.",[738,786,787],{},[772,788,789],{},"To my surprise, I moved from the world of ecommerce, gaming, and entertainment into one of these organizations, ZAiKS Lab, almost 1.5 years ago, and I am still fascinated by it enough to write this piece.",[791,792],"hr",{},[794,795,797],"h3",{"id":796},"short-history-lesson","Short history lesson",[738,799,800],{},"These organizations have been around for over a century. SACEM in France was founded in 1851. ZAiKS in Poland has been operating for over 100 years. GEMA in Germany and ASCAP in the US are all institutions built on legal precision, relationship management, and the slow, steady work of protecting creative output. And now they are all building innovation labs.",[738,802,803],{},"This might sound like a coincidence or a marketing gimmick, but the need comes from something very familiar to many established organizations in the 2020s. The systems that made them successful are being disrupted faster than they can adapt through traditional means. Technology evolves faster than ever, and distribution platforms are no longer a few channels like radio or TV, but thousands of digital services.",[738,805,806],{},"Consider what a CMO actually does. It processes massive amounts of data from digital service providers, including Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, and YouTube, tracking which songs are played, where, and how often. It then matches this usage data against complex ownership graphs that define who wrote the song, who published it, and who owns which percentage of rights, and distributes royalties accordingly. This is essentially a data business disguised as a legal service or a fintech operation.",[738,808,809],{},"Now add generative AI to the mix. Suddenly, the question is not only who gets paid when a song is played, but also whether the model was trained on copyrighted material without authorization, and how creators can participate in AI-driven value creation instead of being displaced by it.",[738,811,812],{},"The traditional CMO playbook, which is based on licensing, collecting fees, and distributing royalties, does not yet fully address these questions. You cannot negotiate with an AI model trained on your repertoire without your knowledge. You cannot collect royalties from systems that generate music that sounds similar to your members’ work but is not technically a copy. This is one of the reasons CMOs are building labs, not to follow trends, but to adapt to long-term structural change.",[738,814,815],{},"Across the world, several CMOs have established formal innovation initiatives. Each has a slightly different flavor, similar to local cuisine or specialities, but they share a common DNA.",[791,817],{},[794,819,821],{"id":820},"sacem-lab","SACEM Lab 🇫🇷",[738,823,824],{},"SACEM Lab operates what I'd call a “structured open innovation” model. They explicitly frame their approach around three pillars: anticipating new technologies and trends, experimenting by testing high-value solutions with an agile approach, and sharing knowledge with their ecosystem. They offer external innovators a 1–3 month pilot program tied to real SACEM use cases. This isn’t theoretical. It’s applied innovation with a clear path to deployment.",[738,826,827],{},"SACEM has also been aggressive on the AI front. They’ve implemented an opt-out mechanism requiring prior authorization for AI training uses (effective since October 2023) and reportedly reached an agreement with Deezer to detect AI-generated music. They’ve also built Musicstart, a blockchain-based service for proof of authorship, targeting young creators who might not otherwise protect their works before distribution. One of their other products is URights, developed together with IBM.",[738,829,830],{},"One might say that partnering with a legacy IT company is not a source of innovation (the purists will say - only startups or AI counts!), but I think otherwise. Any kind of entry into the digital landscape, creating more technological products around problems that CMOs want to solve should count as innovation.",[738,832,833],{},[742,834,837],{"href":835,"rel":836},"https://societe.sacem.fr/en/innovation",[745],"Learn more",[791,839],{},[794,841,843],{"id":842},"gema","GEMA 🇩🇪",[738,845,846],{},"GEMA takes a different approach. Instead of branding a single “lab,” they have created an open innovation interface aimed at startups, research groups, and SMEs, supported by an innovation team and a technology radar. Their website explicitly invites collaboration and lists current partners working on areas ranging from artist analytics to curator matching.",[738,848,849],{},"What makes GEMA particularly interesting is their approach to AI. They have developed what they call an “AI licensing model”, designed to compensate creators both for training and downstream generation use. This goes beyond one-off buy-outs and aims to ensure ongoing participation of rights holders.",[738,851,852],{},"They have also pursued test-case litigation against generative AI providers, positioning themselves as the first collecting society to sue over unlicensed training use. This is innovation through legal strategy, not only product development.",[738,854,855],{},[742,856,837],{"href":857,"rel":858},"https://www.gema.de/en/about-gema/gema-open-innovation",[745],[791,860],{},[794,862,864],{"id":863},"ascap-lab","ASCAP Lab 🇺🇸",[738,866,867,872,873,878],{},[742,868,871],{"href":869,"rel":870},"https://www.ascap.com/ascap-lab",[745],"ASCAP Lab"," leans more toward an accelerator and education model. Their annual \"",[742,874,877],{"href":875,"rel":876},"https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/24/10/n41271515/2024-ascap-lab-ai-and-the-business-of-music-challenge-teams-revealed",[745],"ASCAP Lab Challenge","\", run with NYC Media Lab and NYU Tandon, is a 12-week program providing mentorship and small grants to selected startups and university teams. The 2024 focus was on AI-enabled workflow, business process, and data exchange solutions, precisely the \"plumbing\" that causes friction in music markets.",[738,880,881],{},[742,882,837],{"href":869,"rel":883},[745],[791,885],{},[794,887,889],{"id":888},"zaiks-lab","ZAiKS Lab 🇵🇱",[738,891,892,895,896,900],{},[742,893,752],{"href":750,"rel":894},[745]," is an initiative I have the privilege to represent. ZAiKS Lab was formally established in 2024 as an R&D initiative within ",[742,897,758],{"href":898,"rel":899},"https://zaiks.org.pl/artykuly/2024/grudzien/rok-w-zaiks-ie",[745],", Poland's largest collective management organization. But what makes it fascinating isn't just what it does, it's how it's structured and who runs it.",[738,902,903,904,909],{},"As ",[742,905,908],{"href":906,"rel":907},"https://pl.linkedin.com/in/aga-samitowska",[745],"Aga Samitowska",", Head of ZAiKS Lab, describes it, the initiative \"was created as a result of a natural need within the organization.\" Multiple modernization and technology analysis projects already existed inside ZAiKS, and they needed a coordinating center. This is important. ZAiKS Lab wasn't a top-down mandate or a marketing exercise. Again, it emerged from operational necessity.",[738,911,912],{},"The organization explicitly positions itself as a \"conscious hybrid\", functioning simultaneously as a think tank, accelerator, research lab, and dialogue space between the worlds of creativity, technology, and law. This multi-functionality is deliberate. As Aga Samitowska, Head of the lab, puts it, \"ZAiKS Lab is not an attempt to catch up with something that has passed us by, on the contrary, we want to be an active participant and partner in this transformation.\" Unlike traditional CMO structures staffed primarily by legal and music industry veterans, ZAiKS Lab deliberately mixes experienced internal ZAiKS staff with new specialists from acceleration programs, R&D, and crucially people with backgrounds in startups, e-commerce, gaming, and entertainment technology. When one is trying to bridge the gap between a century-old legal institution and the iteration speed of MusicTech startups and the tech world, you need people who speak both languages. The \"conscious hybrid\" is not just an organizational structure, but the basis of a staffing philosophy.",[738,914,915],{},"As ZAiKS Lab is the entity I know the best, I can share hands-on experience, learnings, and especially projects. So let me get concrete about ZAiKS Lab's outputs, because this is where the rubber meets the road. Below are some projects that we're either currently developing or that are fresh out of the oven.",[791,917],{},[794,919,921],{"id":920},"musictech-landscape","MusicTech Landscape",[738,923,924,925,930],{},"ZAiKS Lab has published a comprehensive map of the ",[742,926,929],{"href":927,"rel":928},"https://zaikslab.tech/music-tech-map",[745],"MusicTech landscape",", a bit of a pet project of mine as I love lists, showcasing domains where music meets innovation, from therapy and health tech to data analytics and digital provenance. Alongside this, I've curated a growing database of over 400 global MusicTech startups, categorized by function and focus area. This should not be seen as a directory, but as ecosystem cartography designed to make MusicTech legible beyond \"AI debates\" and to surface investable niches and builder opportunities, or vibe coding opportunities. The database also serves other curious minds, helping people find tools that can support their work.",[738,932,933],{},[742,934,837],{"href":927,"rel":935},[745],[791,937],{},[794,939,941],{"id":940},"the-startups-copyright-guide","The Startups Copyright Guide",[738,943,944,945,950],{},"The Startups Copyright Guide prepared by ",[742,946,949],{"href":947,"rel":948},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnieszka-cichocka-arttech/",[745],"Agnieszka Cichocka"," and Joanna Dębicka is a practical, jargon-light resource explaining ownership and usage risks around code, music, texts, and graphics. It's designed for teams building creative tech products who want to innovate responsibly without shipping legally fragile solutions. Available in Polish and English, it's free to access, a deliberate choice to lower barriers for early-stage innovators. This is a smart play, both as a knowledge distribution tool and a highly qualitative content marketing effort. One of the recurring friction points in creative tech is that startups often don't understand copyright until they've already built something that violates it. By providing education upfront, we believe we increase the probability that new MusicTech products integrate copyright correctly from the start and avoid mistakes with copyrighted content.",[738,952,953],{},[742,954,837],{"href":955,"rel":956},"https://zaikslab.tech/post/startups-copyright-guide",[745],[791,958],{},[794,960,962],{"id":961},"collaboration-with-warsaw-university-of-technology","Collaboration with Warsaw University of Technology",[738,964,965],{},"ZAiKS Lab has established a strategic collaboration with Warsaw University of Technology, involving hackathons, competitions, training on copyright in AI and new media contexts, joint research, internships, thesis mentorship, and educational programming. There is a strong institutional belief that a partnership should be based on more than just a logo on a webpage, but on real activity and knowledge exchange between people from both sides. There is a hackathon in the works, scientific papers in progress, and active discussions around AI music, attribution, and watermarking. We believe that bridging the gap between a CMO and a scientific institution, and adding elements of business, creates an interdisciplinary mix that benefits all sides involved.",[738,967,968],{},[742,969,837],{"href":970,"rel":971},"https://www.elka.pw.edu.pl/Aktualnosci/Wydarzenia2/Stowarzyszenie-Autorow-ZAiKS-Lab-rozpoczyna-strategiczna-wspolprace",[745],[791,973],{},[794,975,977],{"id":976},"innovators-recognition","Innovators' Recognition",[738,979,980],{},"All of this has attracted interest from Polish technology builders and commentators. The Lab was selected for MamStartup's KREATORZY 2025/2026 ranking in the \"Organizations and innovations\" category. The recognition explicitly credited ZAiKS's digital transformation leadership and the creation of ZAiKS.LAB as an innovation center for the creative sector. This caused quite a stir in the environment, as most people associate ZAiKS with something old and siloed. Yet here we are.",[738,982,983],{},"This matters because legitimacy for innovation coming from established organizations is a prerequisite for convincing startups, universities, and investors to treat a CMO as a serious innovation partner. When a century-old institution is recognized alongside tech-native organizations for innovation, it signals that the transformation is real. This approach can also work for other established organizations, even outside music and sound, by bringing in people from new paradigm industries, integrating them into legacy structures, and running diverse types of projects.",[738,985,986],{},[742,987,837],{"href":988,"rel":989},"https://mamstartup.pl/kreatorzy-2025-2026-zaiks-lab-miejsce-w-ktorym-znajdziesz-odpowiedzi/",[745],[791,991],{},[738,993,994],{},"The Polish lab is, I think, a very effective example. But here I want to zoom out, because the lessons from CMO innovation labs extend far beyond music rights management.",[996,997,998,1006,1012,1018],"ul",{},[999,1000,1001,1005],"li",{},[1002,1003,1004],"strong",{},"Established institutions can innovate, but they need new structures to do it."," The \"lab\" model allows organizations to experiment at iteration speeds that would be impossible within their core operations. It creates a protected space where failure is acceptable and where people with non-traditional backgrounds can contribute without being filtered out by institutional antibodies.",[999,1007,1008,1011],{},[1002,1009,1010],{},"Ecosystem thinking beats product thinking."," At ZAiKS Lab we started not with product building, as one might expect, but with building an ecosystem. The Music Tech Map, the startup database, academic partnerships, and event presence are all investments in becoming a convening node between creators, researchers, and technologists. This is harder to measure than product metrics, since some of these activities have indirect impact, but it is arguably more valuable for long-term positioning.",[999,1013,1014,1017],{},[1002,1015,1016],{},"The \"conscious hybrid\" model is transferable."," Any established organization facing technological disruption could learn from ZAiKS Lab's staffing approach: deliberately mixing institutional veterans with people from adjacent, faster-moving industries. The friction this creates is productive, as it forces translation between worldviews and prevents the lab from becoming either too detached from the parent organization or too constrained by its existing assumptions.",[999,1019,1020,1023],{},[1002,1021,1022],{},"Legal and ethical positioning is a form of innovation."," GEMA's AI licensing model, SACEM's opt-out mechanism, and KODA's litigation strategy are market-shaping innovations that define the rules of engagement for an entire industry. For organizations with regulatory or ethical mandates, innovation through policy can be as impactful as innovation through product.",[738,1025,1026],{},"The future of entertainment, creative industries, and rights management is being shaped right now, in labs, in pilot programs, and in partnerships between institutions that have never worked together before. CMOs like ZAiKS, SACEM, and GEMA are demonstrating that century-old organizations can adapt to technological change without abandoning their core missions. They are building bridges between legal precision and startup iteration speed, and between creator protection and technological possibility.",[738,1028,1029],{},"For other established organizations watching from the sidelines, whether in media, publishing, education, or beyond, the message is clear. The choice is not between innovation and institutional integrity. The choice is between participating in the transformation or being transformed by it. ZAiKS Lab, with its conscious hybrid model, its ecosystem-building approach, and its deliberate staffing of people who understand both worlds, offers a template worth studying. Not because it has all the answers, but because it is asking the right questions and showing up to find them. The future of digital exploration is bright, and the organizations that thrive will be those that build the capacity to explore it.",{"title":1031,"searchDepth":1032,"depth":1032,"links":1033},"",2,[1034,1035],{"id":763,"depth":1032,"text":764},{"id":767,"depth":1032,"text":768,"children":1036},[1037,1039,1040,1041,1042,1043,1044,1045,1046],{"id":796,"depth":1038,"text":797},3,{"id":820,"depth":1038,"text":821},{"id":842,"depth":1038,"text":843},{"id":863,"depth":1038,"text":864},{"id":888,"depth":1038,"text":889},{"id":920,"depth":1038,"text":921},{"id":940,"depth":1038,"text":941},{"id":961,"depth":1038,"text":962},{"id":976,"depth":1038,"text":977},"newsletter",null,"2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z","Handpicked articles, updates, and insights from the fast-moving world of music and entertainment technology, curated just for you.","md",true,30,{"src":1055},"/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_musictech-insights_10_joanna_kurkowska.webp",{},{"title":269,"description":1050},[1047,1059,1060,752,1061,1062,1063,1064],"CMO","musictech","GEMA","SAGEM","ASCAP","ZAiKS","3u73c3KEGb--54P9TT1Jrb_AOTKkXMaxuX0wfzUmcP0",[1067,1068],{"title":265,"path":266,"stem":267,"description":1050,"children":-1},{"title":273,"path":274,"stem":275,"description":1050,"children":-1},[1070,1235,1486,1745],{"id":1071,"title":301,"authors":1072,"badge":1078,"body":1080,"category":1047,"client":1048,"date":1224,"description":1050,"extension":1051,"faq":1048,"featured":1052,"featuredOrder":1225,"hidden":69,"image":1226,"keyTakeaways":1048,"meta":1228,"navigation":1052,"path":302,"seo":1229,"status":1048,"stem":303,"tags":1230,"teaser":1048,"__hash__":1233,"score":1234},"posts/blog/newsletter/musictech-insights-9-curated-by-yaw-asamani.md",[1073],{"name":1074,"to":1075,"avatar":1076},"Yaw Asamani","https://www.linkedin.com/in/yawasamani/",{"src":1077},"/images/partners/musictechlab_partners_yaw_asamani.webp",{"label":1079,"color":728},"#9",{"type":730,"value":1081,"toc":1216},[1082,1086,1099,1102,1104,1107,1112,1117,1122,1135,1137,1141,1144,1150,1152,1156,1159,1165,1167,1171,1174,1180,1182,1186,1189,1195,1197],[733,1083,1085],{"id":1084},"musictech-insights-9-curated-by-yaw-asamani","MusicTech Insights #9 | Curated by Yaw Asamani",[738,1087,1088,1089,1092,1093,1098],{},"This issue is guest‑curated by ",[742,1090,1074],{"href":1075,"rel":1091},[745],", founder of ",[742,1094,1097],{"href":1095,"rel":1096},"https://www.linkedin.com/company/mudder-fracas/",[745],"Mudder Fracas"," (a content house on creative culture), and an entrepreneur focused on music startups and music businesses. Yaw has spent years observing how artists connect with fans and how technology can reshape these relationships.",[738,1100,1101],{},"In this edition, he shares how direct‑to‑fan monetization is finally moving from theory to real, scalable models that change how the industry thinks about superfandom and engagement.",[791,1103],{},[761,1105,301],{"id":1106},"music-business-meets-direct-to-fan",[738,1108,1109],{},[772,1110,1111],{},"Hi, I’m Yaw.",[738,1113,1114],{},[772,1115,1116],{},"We’ve been talking about Direct-to-Fan for years, but until recently there wasn’t a clear model that worked at scale. Now, major players are betting on fan engagement infrastructure as a core part of the music business.",[738,1118,1119],{},[772,1120,1121],{},"Below are three stories worth reading that show how and why this is happening and what it might mean for artists, labels, and musictech.",[1123,1124,1126],"div",{"style":1125},"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;",[1127,1128],"iframe",{"style":1129,"src":1130,"title":1131,"frameBorder":1132,"allow":1133,"referrerPolicy":1134,"allowFullScreen":1052},"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;","https://www.youtube.com/embed/-7W_HkjrHi4","MusicTech Insights #8 | Music Business Meets Direct-to-Fan","0","accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share","strict-origin-when-cross-origin",[791,1136],{},[794,1138,1140],{"id":1139},"universal-music-group-strikes-deal-with-superfan-platform-even","Universal Music Group strikes deal with superfan platform EVEN",[738,1142,1143],{},"Universal Music Group has signed a multi‑year agreement with direct‑to‑fan platform EVEN to power D2C sales, early access, exclusive merch, and community engagement tools for artists worldwide. This is a strong signal that major labels see fan relationships as essential infrastructure rather than an afterthought.",[738,1145,1146],{},[742,1147,837],{"href":1148,"rel":1149},"https://www.universalmusic.com/even-announces-agreement-with-universal-music-group-to-provide-direct-to-fan-platform-for-artists-worldwide/",[745],[791,1151],{},[794,1153,1155],{"id":1154},"independent-artists-prove-the-model-works","Independent artists prove the model works",[738,1157,1158],{},"Independent artist case studies show that superfandom engagement can create real revenue beyond streaming alone. For example, hip‑hop artist LaRussell generated over $100,000 in direct sales by offering early access and exclusive content to superfans before his music hit streaming platforms, followed by a significant uplift in streams when it launched publicly. This type of “windowed release” shows how deep fan relationships can translate into sustainable income and chart impact.",[738,1160,1161],{},[742,1162,837],{"href":1163,"rel":1164},"https://learn.andrmusic.co/en/articles/13545916-larussell-case-study-100k-from-direct-fan-sales-via-even?utm_source=chatgpt.com",[745],[791,1166],{},[794,1168,1170],{"id":1169},"hybrid-release-strategies-reward-both-fans-and-discovery","Hybrid release strategies reward both fans and discovery",[738,1172,1173],{},"Modern release playbooks are shifting toward hybrid strategies that blend direct‑to‑fan commerce with streaming promotion. Artists can build early momentum with fans by offering direct access and premium experiences first, while still leveraging DSPs for discovery and algorithmic reach. This fan‑first release model helps artists own their audience and maximize both engagement and long‑term growth.",[738,1175,1176],{},[742,1177,837],{"href":1178,"rel":1179},"https://music.loop.fans/learn/the-fan-first-release-strategy-a-new-playbook-for-artist-empowerment-in-the-streaming-economy",[745],[791,1181],{},[794,1183,1185],{"id":1184},"fandom-is-becoming-an-asset-class-in-music","Fandom Is Becoming an Asset Class in Music",[738,1187,1188],{},"A recent industry analysis by Hezekiah McCaskill argues that fandom is no longer just a marketing tactic but a core economic asset in 2026. With streaming focused on scale, the industry is shifting toward direct engagement that rewards loyalty and deeper relationships.",[738,1190,1191],{},[742,1192,837],{"href":1193,"rel":1194},"https://lbbonline.com/news/Fandom-Isnt-a-Marketing-Tactic-Its-an-Asset-Class",[745],[791,1196],{},[738,1198,1199,1200,1205,1206,1205,1211,1215],{},"Please also follow Mudder Fracas on the following platforms for content about Creative Culture meets entrepreneurship: ",[742,1201,1204],{"href":1202,"rel":1203},"https://open.spotify.com/show/3hO2sPxQwTjsu4UU8N0wgM?si=rsygDsmJQ2WYS0qzLfb82w&nd=1&dlsi=ff31804ac50a448d",[745],"Spotify",", ",[742,1207,1210],{"href":1208,"rel":1209},"https://www.instagram.com/mudderfracas?igsh=dzc4end4aWFxejJ1",[745],"Instagram",[742,1212,1214],{"href":1095,"rel":1213},[745],"LinkedIn",".",{"title":1031,"searchDepth":1032,"depth":1032,"links":1217},[1218],{"id":1106,"depth":1032,"text":301,"children":1219},[1220,1221,1222,1223],{"id":1139,"depth":1038,"text":1140},{"id":1154,"depth":1038,"text":1155},{"id":1169,"depth":1038,"text":1170},{"id":1184,"depth":1038,"text":1185},"2026-03-27T00:00:00.000Z",31,{"src":1227},"/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_musictech-insights_9_yaw_asamani.webp",{},{"title":301,"description":1050},[1047,1231,1060,1232],"direct-to-fan","even","eEQphTomLx8-s849idDMtsvnqA-JFC1-Je22V1f7zok",4,{"id":1236,"title":293,"authors":1237,"badge":1243,"body":1245,"category":1047,"client":1048,"date":1478,"description":1050,"extension":1051,"faq":1048,"featured":1052,"featuredOrder":1479,"hidden":69,"image":1480,"keyTakeaways":1048,"meta":1482,"navigation":1052,"path":294,"seo":1483,"status":1048,"stem":295,"tags":1484,"teaser":1048,"__hash__":1485,"score":1234},"posts/blog/newsletter/musictech-insights-7-curated-by-mariusz-smenzyk.md",[1238],{"name":1239,"to":1240,"avatar":1241},"Mariusz Smenżyk","https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusz-smenzyk/",{"src":1242},"/images/people/mariusz-smenzyk2.webp",{"label":1244,"color":728},"#7",{"type":730,"value":1246,"toc":1471},[1247,1251,1258,1260,1263,1268,1273,1278,1321,1326,1328,1332,1341,1344,1351,1357,1361,1379,1382,1388,1394,1409,1412,1419,1422,1425,1434,1437,1443,1447,1456,1459,1462,1465],[733,1248,1250],{"id":1249},"musictech-insights-7-curated-by-mariusz-smenżyk","MusicTech Insights #7 | Curated by Mariusz Smenżyk",[738,1252,1253,1254,1257],{},"This issue is curated by ",[742,1255,1239],{"href":1240,"rel":1256},[745],", co-founder and Technical Partner at MusicTech Lab. Expect slightly more technical than usual. If you like your MusicTech with a bit of code and a dash of reality check, this one’s for you.",[791,1259],{},[761,1261,293],{"id":1262},"low-code-magic-wont-solve-musictech-reality",[738,1264,1265],{},[772,1266,1267],{},"Hi, I’m Mariusz. I work directly with teams building technology for the music industry, from early prototypes to production systems that must scale, stay reliable, and survive real-world complexity.",[738,1269,1270],{},[772,1271,1272],{},"Building in MusicTech has never been faster or more experimental. AI agents help write code, prototypes ship before specs are finished, and “vibe coding” often replaces long architectural debates. Momentum matters. Speed matters. Shipping matters. But speed without structure is dangerous. Rights, royalties, metadata, and trust don’t pause for experimentation. Faster builds can easily become fragile systems.",[738,1274,1275],{},[772,1276,1277],{},"Looking toward 2026, I see clear signals that separate teams who will ship reliable products from those chasing hype.",[1279,1280,1281,1289,1297,1305,1313],"ol",{},[999,1282,1283],{},[772,1284,1285,1288],{},[1002,1286,1287],{},"Agentic infrastructure becomes standard",": AI agents will act more like team members, with roles, limits, budgets, and rules. Managing them safely is essential.",[999,1290,1291],{},[772,1292,1293,1296],{},[1002,1294,1295],{},"MCP management becomes a discipline",": More tools expose APIs. The challenge is no longer just connecting systems, but reliably orchestrating and controlling them.",[999,1298,1299],{},[772,1300,1301,1304],{},[1002,1302,1303],{},"Focus on near-deterministic AI systems",": When money, rights, or compliance are involved, reproducible, predictable results matter more than creative variation.",[999,1306,1307],{},[772,1308,1309,1312],{},[1002,1310,1311],{},"Platform engineering adapts to AI workflows",": Internal platforms will treat agents as core components, with clear ownership and lifecycle management.",[999,1314,1315],{},[772,1316,1317,1320],{},[1002,1318,1319],{},"Shift from prototype-first to production-ready tooling",": Quick demos are useful, but real value comes from hardening, testing, and running AI in production.",[738,1322,1323],{},[772,1324,1325],{},"Below is my handpicked selection of insights worth paying attention to. They may be slightly more technical than usual, but they reflect what actually matters if you’re building, scaling, or investing in MusicTech products this year.",[791,1327],{},[761,1329,1331],{"id":1330},"spotify-data-dump-big-drama-small-impact","Spotify Data Dump: Big Drama, Small Impact",[738,1333,1334,1335,1340],{},"A pirate group ",[742,1336,1339],{"href":1337,"rel":1338},"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/activist-group-says-it-has-scraped-86m-music-files-from-spotify",[745],"scraped Spotify"," and released massive metadata dumps. Spotify confirmed the unauthorised scraping and quickly pulled the plug, saving the world from a very expensive “side project.”",[738,1342,1343],{},"Even from a research or defensive perspective, the scale is overwhelming. You are immediately in full data-lake territory with massive storage, chunked ingestion, deduplication, and metadata indexing. The real challenge is processing the files: extracting audio features, cleaning messy metadata, and running quality checks. Anything beyond a tiny sample needs serious distributed systems.",[738,1345,1346,1347,1350],{},"Analysing 300+ terabytes of data is not a side project. A full pass of feature extraction across 86 million tracks could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in cloud infrastructure before accounting for engineering, QA, or reruns. At that point, you are basically running a full-scale music analytics platform without any rights to do so.",[1348,1349],"br",{},"\nThe bottom line is simple. This leak may sound impressive, but it is mostly noise. For the industry, it changes almost nothing.",[738,1352,1353],{},[742,1354,837],{"href":1355,"rel":1356},"https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html",[745],[761,1358,1360],{"id":1359},"the-backstage-playbook-what-musictech-founders-can-actually-steal-from-spotify","The Backstage Playbook: What MusicTech Founders Can Actually Steal from Spotify",[738,1362,1363,1364,1369,1370,1375,1376,1378],{},"Spotify ",[742,1365,1368],{"href":1366,"rel":1367},"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VykN1rmK-tbt6rKBqoGwltV9vqPCO1hdhpebmWF9q6Y/edit#",[745],"Backstage"," is now ",[742,1371,1374],{"href":1372,"rel":1373},"https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/04/celebrating-five-years-of-backstage/",[745],"five years old",", and it’s easy to underestimate its value. What started as an internal developer portal became an open-source framework: a single place for services, APIs, documentation, and operational tools.",[1348,1377],{},"\nFor founders, the lesson is simple: complexity kills speed. Backstage shows how Spotify’s teams turned messy systems, tribal knowledge, and scattered tools into something scalable and understandable. It’s not a silver bullet, but it proves that investing in internal clarity pays off.",[738,1380,1381],{},"If your MusicTech company manages catalogs, AI pipelines, or complex integrations, ignoring Backstage-style organization is like ignoring accounting until your books explode. Less hidden knowledge, clear ownership between platform and product teams, and a single source of truth make running complex systems less painful and faster to scale.",[738,1383,1384],{},[742,1385,837],{"href":1386,"rel":1387},"https://backstage.io/docs/overview/what-is-backstage",[745],[761,1389,1391],{"id":1390},"mcp-agents-in-musictech-epidemic-sound-example",[1002,1392,1393],{},"MCP agents in MusicTech (Epidemic Sound example)",[738,1395,1396,1397,1402,1403,1408],{},"More tools are exposing their APIs and endpoints. ",[742,1398,1401],{"href":1399,"rel":1400},"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro",[745],"Model Context Protocol (MCP)"," acts like a standard port that lets AI apps securely call real tools and data sources instead of guessing. ",[742,1404,1407],{"href":1405,"rel":1406},"https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/mcp-server/",[745],"Epidemic Sound’s new MCP server"," is a good example. It focuses on music discovery within creative workflows.",[738,1410,1411],{},"![Model Context Protocol (MCP) Structure](/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_model_context protocol_structure.webp)",[738,1413,1414,1415,1418],{},"For creative teams, this removes friction. Instead of switching between search tools, playlists, and messages, they can simply ask: “",[772,1416,1417],{},"Find tracks like X, but a bit less intense and slightly faster.","” This becomes a repeatable system action rather than a one-off search. Agents can prepare shortlists, explain why tracks fit, and pass the final choice to a human. Taste stays human, but the process is faster and simpler. MCP turns AI from a chat tool into a working tool. Decisions are quicker, workflows are repeatable, and results are easier to trust.",[738,1420,1421],{},"I asked myself how easy it would be to build an MCP server like Epidemic Sound.",[738,1423,1424],{},"LTDR: A prototype is easy, production is harder.",[738,1426,1427,1428,1433],{},"A prototype can take a few hours to a few days. If you already have an API for search, metadata, and preview URLs, you can wrap it as MCP tools quickly using something like ",[742,1429,1432],{"href":1430,"rel":1431},"https://gofastmcp.com/getting-started/welcome",[745],"FastMCP",". The MCP layer is mostly about defining tools and handling requests and responses.",[738,1435,1436],{},"A production version can take weeks. Epidemic’s server is a safe and well-controlled bridge to their catalog. This means handling the “boring but important” parts properly: authentication, limits, caching, monitoring, and usage rules. Most of the work and time go there.",[738,1438,1439],{},[742,1440,837],{"href":1441,"rel":1442},"https://www.musictechlab.io/blog/music-data/how-to-use-epidemic-sound-mcp-with-claude",[745],[761,1444,1446],{"id":1445},"no-code-vs-reality-why-musictech-still-ends-up-custom","No-Code vs Reality: Why MusicTech Still Ends Up Custom",[738,1448,1449,1450,1455],{},"AI app ",[742,1451,1454],{"href":1452,"rel":1453},"https://trickle.so/blog/lovable-ai-review",[745],"builders like Lovable are getting better",". You can go from idea to something that looks production-ready in days, not weeks. That speed is real and useful. The problem is that good-looking demos create false confidence about how close you are to a real product.",[738,1457,1458],{},"As soon as real users show up, the illusion breaks. Authentication, roles, multi-tenant data separation, audit logs, and background jobs are not advanced features. They are table stakes in MusicTech, especially in rights, licensing, analytics, and B2B tools. These issues rarely appear on screen, but they decide whether a system survives contact with reality.",[738,1460,1461],{},"This is why the music industry keeps rebuilding custom software. Not out of habit, but out of necessity. MusicTech is not one business model. It is a collection of overlapping businesses with incompatible rules, contracts, and exceptions. Generic tools fail exactly where the real value lives: in workflows, edge cases, and controlled data flow.",[738,1463,1464],{},"AI tools are great for learning fast and testing ideas. But in 2026, if your product touches money, rights, or trust, prompts are not a strategy. Ownership, architecture, and deliberate design still win.",[738,1466,1467],{},[742,1468,837],{"href":1469,"rel":1470},"https://medium.com/@jacoballen_/trouble-with-lovable-3f10e72073c4",[745],{"title":1031,"searchDepth":1032,"depth":1032,"links":1472},[1473,1474,1475,1476,1477],{"id":1262,"depth":1032,"text":293},{"id":1330,"depth":1032,"text":1331},{"id":1359,"depth":1032,"text":1360},{"id":1390,"depth":1032,"text":1393},{"id":1445,"depth":1032,"text":1446},"2026-01-20T00:00:00.000Z",32,{"src":1481},"/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_musictech-insights_7_mariusz_smenzyk.webp",{},{"title":293,"description":1050},[1047,1060],"fZjZwWt4N4EjYwfNH8RIaVcnqTAvxlsBqcqEjLJ9qwk",{"id":1487,"title":289,"authors":1488,"badge":1494,"body":1496,"category":1047,"client":1048,"date":1737,"description":1050,"extension":1051,"faq":1048,"featured":1052,"featuredOrder":1738,"hidden":69,"image":1739,"keyTakeaways":1048,"meta":1741,"navigation":1052,"path":290,"seo":1742,"status":1048,"stem":291,"tags":1743,"teaser":1048,"__hash__":1744,"score":1234},"posts/blog/newsletter/musictech-insights-6-curated-by-sigurdur-arnason.md",[1489],{"name":1490,"to":1491,"avatar":1492},"Sigurdur Arnason","https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigurdur-arnason-2b690311a/",{"src":1493},"/images/partners/Sigurdur-Arnason-400-400.webp",{"label":1495,"color":728},"#6",{"type":730,"value":1497,"toc":1734},[1498,1502,1514,1517,1520,1522,1526,1531,1542,1547,1558,1563,1568,1570,1575,1578,1581,1584,1587,1593,1597,1612,1615,1618,1624,1628,1636,1639,1642,1645,1648,1654,1658,1673,1676,1679,1682,1688,1692,1695,1698,1701,1707,1711,1716,1719,1722,1725,1728],[733,1499,1501],{"id":1500},"musictech-insights-6-curated-by-sigurdur-arnason","MusicTech Insights #6 | Curated by Sigurdur Arnason",[738,1503,740,1504,1507,1508,1513],{},[742,1505,1490],{"href":1491,"rel":1506},[745],", CEO and founder of ",[742,1509,1512],{"href":1510,"rel":1511},"https://www.overtune.com/",[745],"Overtune",", a music-making app that lets anyone create music using simple sequencing, samples, and beat packs. In this edition, Sigurdur takes a hard look at AI in music, pushing back against hype and conventional wisdom.",[738,1515,1516],{},"Expect sharp, contrarian insights on why AI isn’t the real crisis, how social media has warped creativity, and what the next cultural paradigm in music could look like.",[738,1518,1519],{},"We’re excited to share Sigurdur’s perspective and his pick of the most relevant stories shaping MusicTech today.",[791,1521],{},[761,1523,1525],{"id":1524},"the-end-of-an-era-its-all-about-to-crash","The End of an Era: It’s All About to Crash",[738,1527,1528],{},[772,1529,1530],{},"Hi, my name is Sigurdur. Most people call me Siggi.",[738,1532,1533],{},[772,1534,1535,1536,1541],{},"Back in April, ",[742,1537,1540],{"href":1538,"rel":1539},"https://musically.com/2025/04/22/overtune-takes-aim-at-suno-with-new-investors-and-loopgen-ai-feature/",[745],"I commented on Mikey Schulmann’s claim that “no one likes making music anymore",".” Since then, I’ve been asked repeatedly to expand on my views about Suno, Mikey, and that entire ecosystem. But this conversation is much bigger than one founder or one company.",[738,1543,1544],{},[772,1545,1546],{},"What we’re witnessing is not just an AI bubble. It’s the collapse of a cultural paradigm that has defined the last 20 years.",[738,1548,1549],{},[772,1550,1551,1552,1557],{},"With support from MusicTech Lab, and special thanks to ",[742,1553,1556],{"href":1554,"rel":1555},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciej-dulski/",[745],"Maciej Dulski"," for research help, I dug into several articles about AI in creative industries. Most arguments fixate on royalties, copyright, or the lack of human touch. These points matter, but they miss the deeper shift.",[738,1559,1560],{},[772,1561,1562],{},"AI isn’t the crisis. AI is the symptom.",[738,1564,1565],{},[772,1566,1567],{},"The real crisis is that the cultural operating system we’ve lived under since the rise of social media is running out of road.",[791,1569],{},[1571,1572,1574],"h4",{"id":1573},"its-time-to-rage-against-the-ai-music-machine","It’s Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine",[738,1576,1577],{},"Maciej surfaced this piece, which frames AI as the ultimate fake and highlights public pushback against machine-generated music. But long before AI entered the conversation, artists were already battling the algorithm.",[738,1579,1580],{},"For years, especially in the TikTok era, musicians have begged the algorithm to pick them, hoping virality would validate their work.",[738,1582,1583],{},"Here’s the uncomfortable truth. Social media doesn’t reward creativity or sincerity. It rewards speed, repetition, emotional spikes, and familiarity. AI-generated slop thrives because it is engineered for that system.",[738,1585,1586],{},"Its mechanical scale exposes the emptiness of the current paradigm by taking it to its logical extreme. We’ve sensed something was off for a long time. Now we finally have a villain to point to.",[738,1588,1589],{},[742,1590,837],{"href":1591,"rel":1592},"https://time.com/7338205/rage-against-ai-generated-music/",[745],[1571,1594,1596],{"id":1595},"bereal-and-the-authenticity-rebellion","BeReal and the Authenticity Rebellion",[738,1598,1599,1600,1605,1606,1611],{},"In a LinkedIn post about ",[742,1601,1604],{"href":1602,"rel":1603},"https://bereal.com/",[745],"BeReal",", its founder ",[742,1607,1610],{"href":1608,"rel":1609},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjacobmoore/",[745],"Ben Moore"," explains the platform’s mission as a kind of protest against the fakeness of traditional social media.",[738,1613,1614],{},"But authenticity alone isn’t a business model.",[738,1616,1617],{},"When social media collapses, BeReal will only have a real chance of surviving if it stops positioning itself purely as a social platform and instead evolves with culture, not against it.",[738,1619,1620],{},[742,1621,837],{"href":1622,"rel":1623},"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bjacobmoore_bereal-has-officially-become-the-only-social-activity-7397291770780463105-bsxz/",[745],[1571,1625,1627],{"id":1626},"treat-ai-as-a-noisy-environment","Treat AI as a Noisy Environment",[738,1629,1630,1635],{},[742,1631,1634],{"href":1632,"rel":1633},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginieberger/",[745],"Virginie Berger"," is one of the sharpest voices in music tech, fighting to protect artists from exploitative AI practices. But here’s the real issue.",[738,1637,1638],{},"Suno signing with Warner or Udio disappearing into Universal is the wrong mental model. It’s like imagining YouTube in 2004 flying to Hollywood to get Paramount to legitimize the platform.",[738,1640,1641],{},"That would have missed the point entirely.",[738,1643,1644],{},"Music doesn’t need validation from the old system. It needs a new grammar.",[738,1646,1647],{},"YouTube used video, but it was never a movie studio. The next music medium will use audio, but it won’t look like the music industry as we know it.",[738,1649,1650],{},[742,1651,837],{"href":1652,"rel":1653},"https://musically.com/2025/12/08/connect-chats-virginie-berger-treat-ai-as-a-noisy-environment/",[745],[1571,1655,1657],{"id":1656},"amazon-is-blundering-into-an-ai-copyright-nightmare","Amazon Is Blundering Into an AI Copyright Nightmare",[738,1659,1660,1661,1666,1667,1672],{},"This piece pushed me to speak with ",[742,1662,1665],{"href":1663,"rel":1664},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-dredge/",[745],"Stuart Dredge"," at ",[742,1668,1671],{"href":1669,"rel":1670},"https://musically.com/",[745],"Music Ally"," about the deeper issues behind Mikey’s comments. His line that “musicians are being outnumbered by their audience” is technically true, but context matters.",[738,1674,1675],{},"Today’s paradigm is built on feeds, algorithms, reach, and metrics. Creativity is treated as content. Value is measured by scale. Success becomes a number.",[738,1677,1678],{},"This is why creators feel alienated. Pouring your heart into your craft often gets punished, not rewarded.",[738,1680,1681],{},"My issue with Mikey isn’t morality. It’s shortsightedness. His actions reveal a CEO who is out of his depth and now publicly hiding behind PR damage control.",[738,1683,1684],{},[742,1685,837],{"href":1686,"rel":1687},"https://www.theverge.com/tech/631651/amazon-alexa-suno-ai-generated-song-copyright-nightmare",[745],[1571,1689,1691],{"id":1690},"disney-is-about-to-embrace-generative-ai-and-the-internet-is-furious","Disney Is About to Embrace Generative AI, and the Internet Is Furious",[738,1693,1694],{},"This isn’t just music. The same pattern is unfolding across all creative industries.",[738,1696,1697],{},"AI slop floods feeds. Trust in AI collapses. Prompt culture peaks. Velocity overtakes meaning. Social feed value flattens. Streaming value flattens.",[738,1699,1700],{},"The cracks are visible everywhere.",[738,1702,1703],{},[742,1704,837],{"href":1705,"rel":1706},"https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/16/disney-is-about-to-embrace-generative-ai-and-the-internet-is-furious/",[745],[1571,1708,1710],{"id":1709},"podcasts-a-new-twist-on-net-audio","Podcasts: A New Twist on Net Audio",[738,1712,1713],{},[772,1714,1715],{},"Wired, October 8, 2004",[738,1717,1718],{},"When radio was dominant, a fringe phenomenon appeared. Amateurs talking into cheap microphones in their basements. It looked niche, unscalable, and impossible to monetize.",[738,1720,1721],{},"It became podcasting.",[738,1723,1724],{},"New paradigms always start this way. Small audiences first. Deeper meaning first. Scale later.",[738,1726,1727],{},"Music is the language of emotion. It’s no surprise that creators reject its reduction into disposable audio.",[738,1729,1730],{},[742,1731,837],{"href":1732,"rel":1733},"https://www.wired.com/2004/10/podcasts-new-twist-on-net-audio/",[745],{"title":1031,"searchDepth":1032,"depth":1032,"links":1735},[1736],{"id":1524,"depth":1032,"text":1525},"2025-12-12T00:00:00.000Z",33,{"src":1740},"/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_musictech-insights_6_sigurdur_arnason.webp",{},{"title":289,"description":1050},[1047,1060],"CaRNp41kBn3vMLkLMFy8SvsHUwPyplcGt3u8-MBpbGw",{"id":1746,"title":285,"authors":1747,"badge":1751,"body":1753,"category":1047,"client":1048,"date":1927,"description":1050,"extension":1051,"faq":1048,"featured":69,"featuredOrder":1048,"hidden":69,"image":1928,"keyTakeaways":1048,"meta":1930,"navigation":1052,"path":286,"seo":1931,"status":1048,"stem":287,"tags":1932,"teaser":1048,"__hash__":1933,"score":1234},"posts/blog/newsletter/musictech-insights-5-curated-by-maciej-dulski.md",[1748],{"name":1556,"to":1554,"avatar":1749},{"src":1750},"/images/cdn-migrated/maciej-dulski-400x400.webp",{"label":1752,"color":728},"#5",{"type":730,"value":1754,"toc":1924},[1755,1759,1763,1768,1791,1796,1798,1807,1810,1816,1825,1828,1834,1843,1846,1852,1861,1864,1870,1879,1882,1888,1897,1900,1906,1915,1918],[733,1756,1758],{"id":1757},"musictech-insights-5-curated-by-maciej-dulski","MusicTech Insights #5 | Curated by Maciej Dulski",[761,1760,1762],{"id":1761},"_7-rounds-in-the-first-10-days-of-november-2025","7 rounds in the first 10 days of November 2025",[738,1764,1765],{},[772,1766,1767],{},"I’m not sure if it’s just a coincidence, but there’s a real wave of optimism in the MusicTech world. 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While enterprise-focused, the underlying voice and audio AI tech closely overlaps with tools used in music and creative audio workflows.",[738,1919,1920],{},[742,1921,837],{"href":1922,"rel":1923},"https://en.ain.ua/2025/11/05/freya-raises-35m/",[745],{"title":1031,"searchDepth":1032,"depth":1032,"links":1925},[1926],{"id":1761,"depth":1032,"text":1762},"2025-11-10T00:00:00.000Z",{"src":1929},"/images/blog/musictechlab_blog_musictech-insights-5-maciej-dulski.webp",{},{"title":285,"description":1050},[1047,1060],"QyuyZj6EOlOw-92rqknSwnfieE-vgvvlnLsUNum3-m0",1777882772692]