Meta walks back an instance of the "Three E's"

 

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Names in the pod today:

Steve Savoca

Lucas Ropek

Alex Bellisimo

Michael Hobbs

LyricFind

Meta

Spotify

Erling Haaland

 

 

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15 years Ago yesterday our lives changed

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ssavoca_for-me-bastille-day-will-always-be-synonymous-share-7482829959191871488-GrP3/?

Goal is the GOAT

https://www.musicconnection.com/fifa-world-cup-2026-the-songs-the-stats-and-why-goal-is-musics-real-mvp/

An Egregious execution of enshittification

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/

This probably isn't how Meta ends. But it is a big problem...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelhobbs2_meta-share-7482358684187185152-MNJh/?

 

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Tune in for my first AI science project...

 

Names in the pod Today

Major League Soccer

Amazon Music

Billy Mann

Bjorn Ulvaeus

The RIAA

A2IM

FIFA

Suno

Tim Ingham

Stuart Dredge

Denis Ladegaillerie

Dylan Smith

 

 

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What were Amazon and MLS waiting for

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/13/amazon-music-mls-world-cup-ad-blitz/?mc_cid=f74a36eeff&mc_eid=e6e936dd58

Alphabet soup says let's Tag AI

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/10/ai-music-tags-riaa-a2im-impala/

Suno says "we're down with that"

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-sued-by-major-labels-says-transparency-is-important-as-record-industry-proposes-ai-labeling-system/

Bill Mann says the industry is late again

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-heard-through-wifi-did-we-billy-mann-8ev1c/

Bjorn says it's a late and beside the point

https://musically.com/2026/07/13/bjorn-ulvaeus-on-ai-tracing-the-output-was-always-the-wrong-question/

Do Investors care about AI Lawsuits?

https://mailchi.mp/musicbizworldwide/distrokid-deluge-4833715?e=2f6171f717

 

AI Pricing tools

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Looking ahead, and a year back.

 

Names in Today's Pod:

iHeart Media

Sony Music

Spotify

Ed Christman

Ashley King

Lit

Justin Beiber

 

 

Birthdays this week:

Lisa Wolf

Liberty Lucken

Marisol Segal

Myles Grosovsky

Andrew Stess

JP Olsen

Paul Sinclair

 

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iHeart's Showola Settlement

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/iheartmedia-settles-fcc-payola-probe-at-its-live-music-events-with-no-fine-and-no-admission-of-liability/

Spotify losing in podcasting to YouTube

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/10/spotify-podcasting-cant-compete-youtube/

But... Bundlegate Offsets Spotify Podcast Losses

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-bundles-how-much-decreased-per-stream-rate/

Lit gets its second hit

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/lit-the-band-behind-pop-punk-hit-my-own-worst-enemy-settles-sony-music-streaming-royalty-lawsuit/

One year ago SWAG Topped out at "contender"

https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/theres-swag-all-over-this-2025-07-12

 

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$10 Million in Interest alone?

 

Names in the pod today:

Primary Wave

Revelator

Jermaine Dupri

Bill Donahue

So So Def

Sony Music

Kobalt

Laurent Hubert

Foreigner

Bruno Guez

Ahuvah Berger

Murray Stassen

Warner Music Group

Primary Wave

Death Cab For Cutie

Jordan Kurland

 

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WMG-Revelator goes operational

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-group-folds-africori-and-qanawat-into-ada-amid-emea-expansion-led-by-howard-corner/

10 Mil is just interest!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/jermaine-dupri-sues-sony-music-for-18m-in-unpaid-royalties/   

Kobalt deal closes

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/done-deal-primary-waves-acquisition-of-kobalt-has-closed/

The Foreigner Mick Jones, not the Clash one

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/primary-wave-mick-jones-deal/

 

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Song of the week: Death Ca

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Calling all Labels and Managers: Let's build an agent!

 

Names In Today's Pod:

Chris Eggertsen

Sarah Trahern

Brittany Schaffer

Ed Sheeran

Ashley King

Live Nation

Front Gate

Ian Carroll

Men In Blazers

The Kennedy Center

Oscar Arelliz

 

 

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Upgrading your Grainge

https://www.https://www.billboard.com/pro/ed-sheeran-sign-interscope-records/billboard.com/pro/ed-sheeran-sign-interscope-records/

CMA has new head

https://www.billboard.com/pro/cma-names-brittany-schaffer-next-chief-executive-officer/

Let's Build an Agent! Suggestions here

You Go Ian!

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/01/hacker-claude-music-tickets-website/

Orange Stain Removal 1

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show/

Orange Stain Removal 2

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/08/trump-name-kennedy-center-appeals-court-ruling/

Live Nation doesn't just take the W

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/06/live-nation-usa-v-live-nation-verdict-appeal/

A Clive Live Epiphany

https://news.pollstar.com/2026/06/30/a-musical-revolution-how-live-music-inspired-clive-davis-to-disrupt-columbia-records-and-the-industry/?

 

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Even Gen Z support social media bans? Wow.

 

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Names in the pod today:

WIllie Upbin

Weekday Management

Anna Spaulding

Tyler Richman

Richard E. Grant

Raffaela Braun

Annie Ortmeier

Andrew Hutchinson

TikTok

Netflix

 

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The oldest script

https://www.billboard.com/pro/geese-weekday-management-news/

A great script

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/07/spice-girls-reclaim-rights-to-spice-world/

Go (Triple) Tigers!

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/raffaella-braun-promoted-to-co-president-of-triple-tigers-records/

Social Media Bans are Popular

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/majority-of-us-adults-support-social-media-bans/824299/

X upgrades livestream tools

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-launches-livestream-studio-to-simplify-live-broadcasts/824300/

TikTok Competes with its creators

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-launches-branded-microdramas/824044/

More Shortform Pollution on Netflix

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/netflix-dabbles-in-shorter-video-content-with-its-new-set-of-publisher-deals-with-variety-others/

 

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Keep an eye on that Suno API.

 

Names in the pod Today

Kalshi

Polymarket

Rick Rubin

Travis Bland

Weird Al Yankovic

Scooter Braun

Ariel King

Suno

Jack Brody

Murray Stassen

Scooter Braun

Hybe

Ashley King

Rachel Scharf

Udio

Sony Music

 

 

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Scooting off the Hybe Board

https://www.billboard.com/pro/scooter-braun-leaves-hybe-board-of-directors/

Another Streaming Fraud Business Model (fails)

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/03/spotify-kalshi-streaming-fraud/

Rick Rubin Brand destruction

https://consequence.net/2026/06/rick-rubin-in-ads-during-the-world-cup/

https://consequence.net/2024/11/pete-townshend-someone-needs-to-slap-rick-rubin/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/polymarkets-marketing-team-made-some-very-bad-bets.html?

Weird Al Brand Non-Destruction

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/02/weird-al-yankovic-ai-ad-interview/

Suno's API is important

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-explores-developer-api-seeking-apps-that-unlock-experiences-generative-music-makes-possible-for-the-first-time/

Another week another Suno Lawsuit

https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-training-copyright-lawsuit-production-music-firm/

Score one for team AI

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/05/suno-admissible-infringed-works-argument/

First day of School Guide to Agentic AI

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/ewp-m/documents/thomsonreuters/en/pdf/reports/agentic-ai-101-tr5737938.pdf

 

 

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If you've ever wondered what a petard actually is, well, give this a listen.

 

Names in Today's Pod:

Howie SInger

Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce

LinkedIn

Nameless Linkedin Perps

Anthropic

Claude

MIT

 

Birthdays this week:

Jem Aswad

Jon Vlassopolous

Dan Mackta

Doug Ford Mixie

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Great Minds and AI Petards

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Swelce, Tayvis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/style/taylor-swift-wedding-celebrity-guests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.billboard.com/lists/what-we-know-about-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding/

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/03/ny-congresswoman-comments-swelce-wedding/

We Asked Claude to reconcile its Alibaba Suit with its Fair Use argument (see full text below)

 

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Hey Claude: If using unlicensed music and books as training data is "fair use," why isn't Alibaba copying your code also "fair use?"

 

This is a sharp consistency challenge, and the tension is real. Let me lay out both the legal distinctions people actually make and where those distinctions strain.

The arguments for why they're different:

The core fair use argument for training is transformativeness— the model doesn't reproduce the work, it extracts statistical patterns to build something new. Alibaba copying code wholesale is direct reproduction, not transformation. Courts have generally been more sympathetic to transformation than copying.

There's also a market substitutionargument: a trained model doesn't replace the original book in the market, whereas copied code directly competes with and substitutes for the original product.

Where your challenge lands:

Those distinctions are weaker than they look. Alibaba could argue their model trained onAnthropic's code is transformative and doesn't substitute for Claude. The transformativeness argument cuts the same way.

More pointedly: the "fair use" framing often reflects whose ox is being gored. Companies with valuable IP tend to argue for strong copyright when others copy them, and for fair use when they need to train on others' data. That's not a legal position — it's a business interest dressed as one.

The honest answer is that the law hasn't settled this. Several cases (Suno, Midjourney, Meta's LLaMA) are still working through courts. There are real arguments that large-scale commercial training isn'tfair use — which would also resolve your consistency problem, just not in AI companies' favor.

The philosophical problem you're pointing at — that the same entity can't coherently hold "training on your stuff is fair use" and "copying our stuff is infringement" — is a genuine inconsistency that critics of the industry have raised repeatedly and that nobody has answered cleanly.

Predatory and well-organized sharks backed by Predatory and well-organized sharks

 

Names In Today's Pod:

Eric Silver

Clearlake Capital

Stubhub

Fan Fair Alliance

YouTube

Ariel King

Murray Stassen

Craig A. Meyer

Gary Arbuthnot

GigLogic

 

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YouTube is hoovering your data for Training

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/google-says-ai-training-is-fair-use-and-copyright-should-be-policed-on-outputs-not-inputs/

Michael > Oppy

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/michael-jackson-movie-overtakes-oppenheimer-as-biggest-biopic-ever-with-1-billion-in-sight/

PE Backed Scalping

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/30/stubhub-uk-arena-tickets-investigation/

Illinois provides scalping relief

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/30/illinois-ticketing-laws

What's behind those ticket prices?

https://www.billboard.com/pro/touring-costs-calculated-new-platform-artists-evaluate-gigs/

 

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Time is a flat circle that lasts exactly 32 years.

 

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Names in the pod today:

Oskar Eichler

Jamie Sampson

Eliah Seton

Virgin Music Group

Sarah Landy

Jacquelyn Saturn

Molly Neuman

Zack Gershen

Ariel King

Soundcloud

Twitch

Eliah Seton

TikTok

iHeart

David Rosenberg

 

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Virgin and Downtown smooshed together

https://www.billboard.com/pro/virgin-music-new-leadership-team-downtown-integration/

MadonnaxiHeartxTikTok

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/29/tiktok-iheartradio-madonna-confessions-ii-preview/?

SoundCloudxTwitch makes sense

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/25/soundcloud-twitch-dj-performance-series/

Songstats

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Socialstats

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