TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Pixelynx, an Animoca Brands-owned metaverse company co-founded by DJ and producer Deadmau5, announced today its newest suite of tools for its flagship product Korus, an AI-powered music creation platform where you can remix content using AI and licensed stem files made by artists and music labels, then mint music and earn revenue.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? In a car, passengers could listen to music without distracting the driver as they listen to navigation instructions. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians upload instrumentals that become the basis for those tracks. million to date (per PitchBook data), and it’s ranked at 143 in iOS in Music in the U.S. Voisey did not respond to our email.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Last year Apple showed how it could embed Shazam’s music identification features even more deeply within iOS 14 , and now it’s taking things another step forward within Apple Music. Apple Music DJ Mix. Apple Music DJ Mix. This is a new path for getting DJ mixes onto Apple Music alongside older ones like Dubset’s platform.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. Snap doesn’t say how big its music catalog is other than calling it “robust and curated.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. That led to deciding to build Uppbeat,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. million GBP ($6.15

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

What happens when you give creative license to an AI and ask it to generate a music video? Apparently, nothing quite as bad as we've come to expect. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta recently launched AudioCraft, its framework to generate "high-quality," realistic audio and music, with an open-source license. The technology is designed to address a gap in the generative AI market, where audio creation has historically lagged behind. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” Twitch was unprepared for a sudden onslaught of copyright takedown notices from the music industry that started back in May. What was in it, however, was anything but. The bottom line?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Music is a daily part of many of our lives and the year is coming to an end. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see what your music said about you this year? You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Today, a startup is announcing some funding as it looks to make a similar impact in the world of music. Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

He made a good point about adding music. He mentioned using Creative Commons licensed music. This made me think of some recommendations for music that Ivan Boothe mentioned recently (can't remember exactly which nonprofit tech list serv). Here are some resources I've found for music. And if you???re

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Music is a daily part of many of our lives and the year is coming to an end. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see what your music said about you this year? You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Instagram.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

Virtual world-building platform Roblox has signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Lots of these experiences incorporate music, including through an official Roblox “boombox” item. Roblox’s popularity has earned it positive and negative attention from the music industry.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Peloton is getting into the music business. The popular fitness startup, already known for its use of popular music during its classes, announced today that it will be commissioning its own music that can only be heard from within its app. Exclusive music makes sense for Peloton.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Facebook’s experimental app division has a new product out today called Collab that promises to deliver a new approach to collaborative music making. Collab will let you edit together three parts into one short-form music videos. The key words there in that statement are “starting with music.” Image: Facebook.

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TechSpot

MARCH 22, 2021

FairPlay encrypts distributed digital content such as that from iTunes, Apple Music, and the App Store. On Friday, a Texas federal court ordered Apple to pay Personalized Media Communications (PMC) $308.5 million in a patent dispute related to digital rights management software called "FairPlay." A jury reckoned that Apple's algorithms.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twitch is attempting to mend fences with a big pillar of the music industry by announcing an agreement to “work together” with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). The idea of this, in part, is to “address when creators inadvertently or incidentally use music in their streams,” according to a press release.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Instagram is continuing to build out its augmented reality effects, and today, it’s announcing that creators can build effects that react to music through Spark AR, the company’s AR-creation tool. To coincide with the launch, singer Ellie Goulding launched her own effect for a new song.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Virtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the news this morning, saying it was “committed to partnering with the music industry.”. Music is a major element of Roblox.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Kapoor’s license and Vantablack’s other use in the military and aerospace industries have kept it out of reach of the average artist or car enthusiast, giving its visual effect an even more alluring quality. My advice is to cue up some appropriate space music , throw up a gif of that car, and drift off into the void of the weekend.

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2020

Facebook users have been able to share audio clips of select licensed material on the site, but not official music videos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The round comes from existing investors including Susa Ventures and Illuminate Ventures, as well as Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment, the CueBall Group, NexGen Ventures Partners, Amaranthine and others. Founded in 2014, Pex had previously raised $7 million , and it acquired music rights startup Dubset last year.

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2021

PMC had sued Apple over its FairPlay technology, used to distribute encrypted content from iTunes, Apple Music, and its App Store. PMC, which is a patent licensing firm, originally sued Apple in 2015, claiming the tech giant had infringed seven of its patents. Apple has been ordered to pay $308.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Finding Good Quality Music Sources Isn't Impossible. Trade Off: What value does music add?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Music app Breakr this week announced a $4.2 It’s a unique approach in an overcrowded music marketplace, where discovering music and being discovered have both proven difficult codes to crack. — Music Breakr (@MusicBreakr) July 2, 2021. Music licensing marketplace Songtradr raises $50M.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

He’ll also be overseeing “music, gaming, Helo,” — a social media app that’s big in India — plus “emerging businesses” and helping to scale TikTok even more than the social media app already has in the last three years.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

This means My Favorite Murder , which is among the top 10 most popular podcasts according to Edison Research , will be available one week early and ad-free on Amazon Music, through both the Unlimited and Prime plans, as well as Wondery Plus. Spotify is reportedly the top music streaming app. It’ll then come to all other platforms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Chasen is staying mum as far as where the funding will go, stating, “And now with the new fundraising, we can continue to innovate and truly explore the cross section of social + music. I have a lot of ideas for the space and I’m excited to start building them.”. A mobile app would be nice, if I’m just spitballing here.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. The NMPA filed suit yesterday on behalf of several major music publishers. Image: Roblox.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 14, 2011

Should museums play music - in public spaces and or in galleries? Pros for music: Music helps designers frame the atmosphere for the intended experience at the museum. You can pick music that helps people get into a reflective, active, or social mood--whatever you are trying to achieve. Licensing fees.

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The Verge

APRIL 25, 2021

Germain, despite the fact that licensed team kits were introduced earlier this year. In addition to plenty of fictional characters , the battle royale has added skins based on music stars like Travis Scott and Marshmello , along with streamers, including Ninja , Loserfruit, and TheGrefg.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

NFT holders will also get other perks like access to unreleased music and exclusive live events by the creatives. Through VIP passes, fans will get the ability to actually livestream music by these artists before it arrives on Spotify, YouTube or Apple Music.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Years ago, Big Tech companies like Google decided that they profit more by stealing smaller companies’ intellectual property than buying or licensing it. It secured a licensing deal with Google in 2013, when Google agreed to make its music service, Google Play Music, work with Sonos speakers. The problem?

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