Streamers Help Reignite Big Battles Over Film and TV Profit Participation
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How Art Blocks Is Building for the Future After the Ethereum NFT Boom
When the market surged to new heights late last summer, project Art Blocks saw one of the steepest ascents. The generative artwork project jumped from $11 million in secondary market trading volume in June to $63 million in July—and then $587 million in August. Rapidly, Art Blocks went from a crypto-native curio—blockchain-generated artwork—into a blue chip collection that Read More …
AI-generative art predicted to be next trend for NFT sector
Known as “AI-generative NFTs,” these nonfungible tokens are becoming increasingly popular within the art community, along with those interested in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and the Metaverse. In order to create AI-generative NFTs, one would typically use generative adversarial networks, or GANs. These are algorithms that leverage computers to use data to train Read More …
MMF: Sharing in the streaming boom and lump sum mega-payments
Despite the recorded market share of the three major labels falling to 56.9%, when it comes to licensing negotiations it appears they continue to extract unfeasibly large slices of licensing revenues in the form of upfront unattributable payments – typically with little transparency about the sums involved, and how or if any of the revenues will be allocated to Read More …
Music catalogs are fetching huge deals. Are they overvalued?
Music assets are selling for unusually high valuations. During the last 25 years, songwriting catalogs generally sold for about eight to 12 times the “net publisher’s share,” or the amount of revenue the songs generated minus the royalties paid out to the performers and songwriters. Today, valuations are hitting 25 to 30 times the publisher’s Read More …