Schrödinger's Cat
Long-form essays from the bushido team on rights, royalties, and the machinery that decides who gets paid.
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Whats Happening in music and how bushido fits in
On organic decay, invalid traffic, and why the only honest thing an ad platform can sell an artist is proof
Roughly one in five programmatic impressions is invalid. Artists are the least protected buyers in the most defrauded market in commerce. Almost Famous exists to fix the measurement, not the vibe.
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A ground for the underground
On performance rights, the machines that learned without asking, and why paying for a sample is now the most strategic thing an artist can do
The performance rights ecosystem moves billions through a system that cannot reliably say who owns what. The AI cases are about to make that everyone's problem.
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