In January 2026, a story appeared on my timeline that stopped me in my tracks. DistroKid, the music distribution platform, was apparently seriously exploring a sale. The figure being quoted is, as I write this, sitting at around $2 billion, with…
The last time I sat down to audit a new client’s publishing registrations, they were completely convinced everything was in order. PRS member, ticked. Distributor handling their releases, ticked. “My publishing is sorted,” they said. And genuinely, they believed it. What…
Last week, an artist I work with was pretty pleased about the news. The Government had dropped the proposal, the music industry had pushed back and won. “So AI can’t use my music without permission now, right?” The honest answer is…
Why Most Artists Get the Timeline Wrong In Part 1, we built the overall framework. In Part 2, we worked through the practical plan. This article answers the two questions every artist asks but rarely gets an honest answer to: how…
On Friday 6th March 2026, the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee published HL Paper 267, a formal parliamentary report on AI, copyright and the creative industries. Baroness Keeley, the committee chair, didn’t mince her words in the press statement…
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