#80: Streams, Lies and Deepfakes
Streams, Lies and Deepfakes
In this Audio Talks episode, host Oisin Lunny explores whether the music industry can handle tech-powered forgery, copyright infringement, and AI-driven fakery.
Virginie Berger from MatchTune discusses tools for detecting AI-generated copyright violations, while Beatdapp co-founder Andrew Batey dives into the impact of streaming fraud on artists’ livelihoods.
Together, they reveal how music tech can both empower and protect creators in a landscape of increasing digital deception.
About Beatdapp
We help music labels and artists track their songs to collect royalties. Beatdapp is a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real time. It reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure, expensive audit costs, and lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC for music play count!
Accelerator Alumni:
-Creative Destruction Labs, Prime Stream (CDL-West)
-500 Startups (San Francisco)
-Project Music Portfolio (Nashville, TN)
Awards:
-#2 Seed Stage Company in Canada by Crunchbase (2019)
-Winner of Inventures “Exploring Blockchain Breakthroughs” Competition (2019)
-NACO Top 5 – Most Promising Startup of the Year (2019)
-New Ventures BC “People’s Choice” Winner (2019 – by over 4,000 votes)
-New Ventures BC Top 10 (2019)
-Selected Top 25 Canadian Companies for “48 Hours in The Valley” by C100 (2020 Cohort)
-Selected for “Emerging Rockets List” (2020)
Our customers and partners include the largest music companies in the world.
More info: beatdapp.com
About MatchTune
We are musicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs based in Paris and Los Angeles working together with one goal in mind: to make content creation efficient and outstanding while ensuring artists get an equal chance at being discovered and promoted.
Co-founded by world-known jazz musician André Manoukian and led by serial entrepreneur Philippe Guillaud, our team prides itself in having built some of the most advanced AI-powered music and video tools available to content creators and music industry professionals. We work around the clock to ensure our apps are of the highest quality and reliability.
Our team is full of passionate people who are all too familiar with the strifes of earning a living from a creative artform. We are committed to providing value for independent and commercial artists through our Artist Music Program (AMP), while simultaneously growing the micro-sync licensing space – a revenue channel that is growing exponentially along with our online world.
More info: www.matchtune.com
Audio Talks
A podcast on all things audio presented to you by HARMAN and our family of audio brands including JBL, Harman Kardon and AKG. Host Oisin Lunny, music journalist and audio enthusiast, will interview expert guests, legends of the music industry, and audio scientists to discuss the power of music and audio in all its facets.
Audio Talks is presented by Harman.
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