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After I posted that, yet again we see what I predicted at the start. All these "lawsuit" threats are nothing more than negotiations for labels and publishers to get a piece of these A.I. companies just like Spotify. In the end, they will screw over their own label artists, just like they did with Spotify AND they will screw over the 99%+ of artists and writers they do not represent by keeping all the money and setting unfair rates as standard. The FACTS are that most A.I. training is done on JPF members and other indie artists who will have zero representation, zero protections and who will receive zero % of the money these corporations will steal. The agreement will be put in place so the same scumbags get all the money who have ALWAYS gotten all the money. Meanwhile, indie artists will be the real losers. So the only way to fight back is use the tech against them by putting out music that is more popular than what they put out. Of course they control social media and radio and all other aspects of public access, but I have been preaching for 40 years to build your own first person fan base of 5K fans, and serve them directly and forget about all the rest of the nonsense that happens. You can't stop it, so you have to move faster, fly under the radar, make great music using these inexpensive or free tools and do your own thing as a clever small business. The rest is smoke and mirrors and the same old dirtbags getting the commercial music income.