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“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians.

Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Spirits and Logistics: How Grantmakers, Universities, and Arts Institutions Start Working with the BIPOC-Led Cooperative Movement to Build the Future

We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte

I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti

A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians.

we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with

You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid

But there’s a difference between collecting and curating.With collecting, building the collection itself is often the end goal. Not so with curating.

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo

To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,

The job for any studio is to create a great story and exploit it across as many channels as possible—theme parks, merchandise, games, movies, TV, TikT

A Speculative White Paper on the Aesthetics of a Black Swan World

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