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AI and Music 1: What Creator Groups Want From AI Music Deals
Learn why creator groups are demanding consent, fair compensation and transparency from AI music deals
Adaugo Ugwu·Sep 25, 2026·6 min
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Time-Based Splits: How to Schedule Ownership Changes on Royalti.io
When a split change depends on someone remembering to make it, it gets missed. Royalti.io's time-based splits let contract terms live inside the system that pays out against them
Sep 18, 2026·4 min
Did You Know: Royalti.io Has a Claims Inbox for Publishing Disputes
Royalti.io built a structured workflow for ownership and registration conflicts, so disputes have a start, a middle, and an end that is provable after the fact
Sep 12, 2026·4 min
We Can All learn a Thing or Two From Dolly Parton About Ownership
Dolly Parton turned down Elvis and kept her publishing; here's what every artist should learn from that.
Sep 4, 2026·5 min
Selling a Culture: How K-Pop Became a Business Model And What Nigeria Can Learn From It
A Korean folk song sung in a 50,000-seat stadium, 5,000 miles from home. How K-pop engineered that moment, and what Afrobeats can learn from it.
Aug 28, 2026·6 min
Teaching Your AI Assistant About Your Label
Roy already knows your royalty data. But what about the standing instructions your team lives by? Here is how the knowledge base fills that gap.
Aug 21, 2026·4 min
Reconciling Publishing Statements Without Losing Your Mind
Registering your music is the easy part. Making sure you were actually paid what you are owed- that is where Royalti.io's reconciliation tool comes in.
Aug 12, 2026·4 min
Samples: Exploring Music Built on Someone Else’s Work
A 6-second drum solo from 1969 has been sampled over 5,000 times. Some of the biggest songs ever made were built on someone else's work. Here's what that means for royalties.
Aug 8, 2026·5 min
Cross-Border Royalty Collection: How a Nigerian Artist Actually Gets Paid for a UK Tour or European Streams
Nigerian music is generating royalties in the UK and Europe right now. Whether those royalties reach you depends on what you have registered and what you haven't.
Jul 31, 2026·6 min
The Geography of Sound: Why Music Sounds Different in Every City
We explore how place shapes music, why every city has its own sound, and why that matters for every artist
Jul 21, 2026·4 min
ISRC and ISWC Codes: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Metadata Right
A missing or mismatched ISRC or ISWC code can cost you streaming income. Here is how to check whether your metadata is leaking money.
Jul 9, 2026·5 min
My plans Stopped Rotting. Then They Hit 200 Files.
Groundwork 0.4.0 adds an explorer, a file browser for a whole plan folder that is itself one offline HTML file, and a cross-plan plans index: tree, tabbed viewer, full-text search, no server.
Jul 2, 2026·6 min
The Rivalry That Built a Genre: King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, and the Evolution of Juju Music
They were rivals to their fans and friends to each other. Here is how a publicly charged feud between two juju legends pushed an entire genre forward.
Jul 9, 2026·5 min