What Plagiarism Accusations? LyricFind Announces Turkish Partnership with fizy

LyricFind has announced a new partnership with Turkey-based music streaming service fizy. fizy is powered by a Turkish mobile phone operator, Turkcell. LyricFind will provide its full database of lyrics to fizy, with Turkish lyrics managed by LyricFind…

CD Baby/Downtown Inks a Deal With Audible Magic for Pre-Release Copyright Protection

CD Baby just inked a partnership with Audible Magic to identify potential rights infringement claims on tracks before distribution. Infringement claims are becoming increasingly common and contentious.  Now, CD Baby is hoping to address potential issue…

Google’s ‘Sound Search’ Is Now a Serious Threat to Shazam

One of the best features for the Pixel 2 series of smartphones was Google’s addition of the Now Playing feature, which added always-on music recognition. The service is much better than Google’s own Sound Search and third-party services lik…

MIT Develops AI That Can Isolate and Edit the Individual Instruments in a Song

MIT’s latest AI feat has the power to pick apart music in an unprecedented way. When a song is released, it’s in its final form.  It’s a single audio file that is nearly impossible to separate into individual instruments and voices. A…