Juan Lentino

The honest answer now costs money

Streaming services have started attaching consequences to AI disclosure, and so far every one of them lands on the party who answers truthfully. A distributor that declares a track fully AI-generated asks for the penalty, while one that declares it human is paid until a detector...

How to trace a royalty that looks wrong

A practical order for tracing a royalty that looks wrong: check the ISRC and the period, follow the record upstream, and fix the source along with the payment.

Find out who already answered for your catalog

Independent artists often reach AI licensing deals through distributors and collectives. How to find who can answer for your catalog, and answer first yourself.

The form is not part of the process

The case for preserving creative friction does not extend to metadata labor. A record made by hand is a record made by the people who have staff.

The form is not part of the process

The case for preserving creative friction does not extend to metadata labor. A record made by hand is a record made by the people who have staff.

Nobody is paid to check

Signature verification costs almost nothing and almost never happens. The web fixed the same problem by making certificates free before warning anyone.