Massive Attack CTO Andrew Melchior on digital watermarking as a solution for music industry challenges
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John Kennedy
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Andrew Melchior, CTO of Massive Attack and founder of Genotone, discusses how the music industry lost its way over the past 30 years and proposes digital watermarking technology as a solution. Drawing from his extensive career — from bringing music to Nokia phones to producing David Bowie's global live broadcast — Melchior explores how music became ubiquitous like water, the challenges of AI-generated content and deepfakes, and how Genotone's watermarking tech could protect artists and ensure fair royalty distribution in the streaming era.
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· 2 pulledMusic became like water. The means to make it became ubiquitous.
The music industry lost its way – and what digital watermarking could do to fix it.
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