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It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

I Don't Think Technology Can Solve This Problem

What you own and how you can make money from it is just always going to be up for debate. The music industry acts like it's zero sume game, where the best way to innovate is to get more of your rights. And so if humans are acting like that, and they're creating contracts that are constantly of weasel song writers out of payments,. then what you're going to have is weird situations where people are getting soed left in right to try to claim intellectual property placements. It's incredibly distorted. I don't think yet, technologyis not going ofix this problem.

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