Prof Snyder's Music Biz News
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<p><strong>Current, Interesting, Offbeat, Music Biz News Updates Curated from Various Sources.</strong></p><p>“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis</p><p>Video Versions at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@snydersmusicbiznews">https://www.youtube.com/@snydersmusicbiznews</a></p><p>For 27+ years as a Music Professor teaching Music Business and Recording classes, as well as being a professional musician, one of my favorite classes was Intro to Music Business. Each week we discussed current news in the music industry that I found interesting and worth discussing. Now retired, I still try to stay current on what's happening, and have decided to share what I find with a (potentially) much bigger class...Prof Snyder's Music Biz News.</p><p>Links to articles referred to in the topics discussed will be posted on my blog <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/">https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>So if you actually learn something new, please follow, like, and subscribe. Thanks! Snyder</p>
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June 29, 2026
AI In The Classroom: The Future of Music Education
<p>While SUNO is portrayed by many as the evil AI music company training AI on copyrighted music without permission, traditional music schools worldwide, like the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the National Institute of Education in Singapore, embrace it.</p><p>Meanwhile students at Berklee College of Music say AI is ruining their education. </p><p>Other institutions like Syracuse University are cutting music or deleting music programs altogether. </p><p>On the horizon, will independent self-thinking agentic bots not only teach music classes, but also even give one-on-one music lessons? </p><p>If music programs hope to be around ten years from now, they have to treat AI not as a novelty or a threat to hide from, but as a tidal wave reshaping the musical world students are entering. The real question isn’t whether AI will be part of that world—it’s whether schools will prepare students to survive in that world.</p>
June 19, 2026
Why Did 2 Live Crew Lose 'Me So Horny'
<p>2 Live Crew just lost the copyrights to their records. </p><p>Copyright law states that they could get their music back from the labels after 35 years if they follow the instructions, and in 2024 they did. But they just lost on appeal by the label, not because of usual 'work-for-hire' issues, but rather because one of the members who had died, filed bankruptcy decades ago. This is a first. </p><p>Musicians filing bankruptcy is pretty common, even with hit songs, especially those with bad contracts. Will this case have lawyers digging into past bankruptcies now to deny artists their recordings after 35 years? From Salt-N-Pepa to 2 Live Crew, labels are finding creative ways of keeping those recordings, no matter how much they say they love their artists. </p><p>Oh...and Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew is running for senate! </p><p>sources: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2026/06/2-live-crew-loses-copyrights.html">https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2026/06/2-live-crew-loses-copyrights.html</a></p>
June 9, 2026
Spotify Evolves from a Streaming Service into an AI Music-Creation Ecosystem.
<p><strong>"Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have officially signed a licensing agreement that will allow “AI-enabled superfans” to produce AI covers and remixes of participating UMG songs." </strong></p><p>Up until now a song was created to listen to, dance to. An artist's official release has been the definitive version of a song. Listeners could interpret it differently, but the recording itself remained fixed. </p><p>Soon, the labels and Spotify see all of those songs, maybe yours, as the 1st building block for Spotify users to take your song, and create 1000s of variations. "The sources confirm artists can opt out, but do not specify whether participation is opt-in or opt-out by default and neither Spotify nor UMG has clarified this." </p><p>"It also isn't clear whether "participating" is determined artist by artist, catalog segment by catalog segment, or through some broader label-level agreement with individual exceptions. That mechanism is simply undisclosed." </p><p>Does it matter to you if your song is sliced and diced and made into something you wouldn’t like, or even recognize? sources: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot">https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot</a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3NpVzhHYjdnRGtLREpiVFJqOHctcDRsRWRWd3xBQ3Jtc0tsTTdtUzRBZWk4RHZJUzhtbXhZeUhlQjdfTlJSTGx2dnpkOWJjUWJOV2VjYURKRURwZWxzZ1lLVHRHYnZZcENxc1VVOGgwTnk2eFo1TXdDbTFlSmJZQldnT3o5QUU5UC1IRm82T0FMRVlVQjJEc0ozVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fsnydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com%2F2026%2F06%2Fspotify-evolves-from-streaming-service.html&v=FLvUlpF5HOk">....</a></p>
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<p><strong>Current, Interesting, Offbeat, Music Biz News Updates Curated from Various Sources.</strong></p><p>“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis</p><p>Video Versions at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@snydersmusicbiznews">https://www.youtube.com/@snydersmusicbiznews</a></p><p>For 27+ years as a Music Professor teaching Music Business and Recording classes, as well as being a professional musician, one of my favorite classes was Intro to Music Business. Each week we discussed current news in the music industry that I found interesting and worth discussing. Now retired, I still try to stay current on what's happening, and have decided to share what I find with a (potentially) much bigger class...Prof Snyder's Music Biz News.</p><p>Links to articles referred to in the topics discussed will be posted on my blog <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/">https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>So if you actually learn something new, please follow, like, and subscribe. Thanks! Snyder</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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