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Real talk about the real music industry

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No one in this photo should ever be able to live it down

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There are many questions about when does use of AI tools cross into AI music and there is one simple answer dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

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There are many questions about when does use of AI tools cross into AI music and there is one simple answer dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

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Did you know GenAI music cannot be copyrighted dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

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I thought this weirdness about copyright needed to be pointed out dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US Copyright Office offering an elegant description of the difference between making your own art and using AI "to commission" it. From @dadadrummer.bsky.social substack.

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I thought this weirdness about copyright needed to be pointed out dadadrummer.substack.com/p/rough-music

Chalking the line between music that uses machine learning, and GenAI

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These corporations are linked to this administration and are going down with it

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From some points of view, any intelligence must seem superior

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just realized the bar in Greenfield that has all this viral attention is in the space that was The Root Cellar, where we and so many others played while it was happening…

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Removed paywall to this cause you have to read it to believe it dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Missing Now

An Interview with Claude

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Removed paywall to this cause you have to read it to believe it dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Missing Now

An Interview with Claude

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I saw wendy eisenberg play a chord across five frets like it was a normal thing

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ai is a corporate dream so it embodies corporate goals

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Everyone should come to Hudson NY Something in the Hills fest is on and we play Sat night late

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Festival we are playing is rain or shine - Sat in Hudson NY

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Sheeran shows in Kraft’s stadium cancelled for weather. They could have just held their tongues, but instead they told the rest of us to shut up dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-politi...

The Politics of Accumulation

GenAI, Streaming, Live Nation/AEG and Ed Sheeran are one and the same

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The zillionth AI-generated email saying, "What particularly caught our attention is the book’s thoughtful exploration of how we listen, experience sound, and understand its place in our everyday lives." Con artists probing for the writer's weakpoint...

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Found a Warhol in the dollar bin

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Kol Nidre sung by Perry Como, RCA LPM-3188, 1953” I thought the citation must be an AI hallucination, but it really exists

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 21/09/2026

what if we distracted all the agent swarms by getting half of them to be just circling back while the other half are just checking in

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 20/09/2026

It’s tax time and been a minute since I did this so here is some data. What was the gross income breakdown for this DIY musician in 2025? Licensing & Composer Fees - 48.3% Live Performance - 22.9% Performance Royalties - 18% Streaming Royalties - 9.3% Direct-to-Fan Downloads (Bandcamp) - 1.5% 1/

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“As a songwriter, he is proto-AI: a blender of cliché. He is indiscriminate, prolific, fast, bland and very, very rich.” Removing paywall for this piece I wrote on Sheeran the Bland back when everyone was still worrying about copyright dadadrummer.substack.com/p/got-to-giv...

Ed Sheeran's Victory for AI

Got to Give It Up

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's Victory for AI

Got to Give It Up

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is about AI execs but could equally apply to major labels and their pop stars

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have expanded the free window on Dada Drummer Almanach to posts from last four weeks - everything else is for paid subscribers only - please consider a paid sub, in these grim days for IP it is one of the only ways to help support a writer dadadrummer.substack.com/p/all-so-pro...