Shmoozic Biz

Music attorney and journalist Bill Hochberg breaks bread with A-list business, legal and creative professionals to get the low-down and the high-up on the most interesting and consequential news, views and shmooze in today's music world.

Shmoozic Biz is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #1

  Pharrell Wasn't The Real Musician: Chad Hugo Complaint

  Aug 31, 202617 minS1

  <p>Pharrell and Chad Breakup – From Music Biz Divorce to Copyright War<br/><br/>What began as a messy business dispute between legendary production partners Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams has escalated into a much stranger fight: who actually created the music behind The Neptunes.<br/><br/>In this episode of Shmoozic Biz, music attorney and journalist Bill Hochberg and his associate Sami Kazi break down the amended lawsuit Hugo filed against Pharrell Williams — and why the case now raises serious copyright ownership questions.<br/><br/>Originally filed as a partnership dispute over roughly $1 million in unpaid proceeds, the lawsuit has...

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  Episode #20

  Episode 20 - Blink 182 vs Slop 183

  Aug 21, 202636 minS0

  <p>Did Suno just use Blink-182 or Green Day tracks as training data to generate a generic pop punk ditty from California? Can anyone really figure out exactly which human songs, and how much of each, went into an AI song? Our guest Matt Adell, COO of Musical.ai (and former head of Beatport), says, yes they can. Their program determines who should get paid and who ought to get attribution when robots write songs based on human music. He shares with music attorneys Bill Hochberg and Sami Kazi where this new and interesting tech came from and where AI...

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  Episode #19

  Music Lawyer Dina LaPolt On NO FAKES, Joel Katz And More

  Aug 11, 202637 minS0

  <p>Joining Bill Hochberg and Sami Kazi on this episode is music attorney Dina LaPolt, who reps major artists and songwriters and advocates on Capitol Hill for laws like the NO FAKES Act, designed to protect against "deepfakes" and to give creators and content owners new property rights over voices and images separate from copyright and trademark law. Dina kicks things off by sharing some sage advice she took from the late music law titan Joel Katz that has steered her throughout her career. Then the conversation takes some fascinating and sometimes surprising twists and turns, like when Dina says...

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  Episode #18

  How to Avoid Gig Disasters – A New App for Touring Musicians

  Jul 21, 202622 minS0

  <p>n this episode Bill Hochberg and Sami Kazi get Shark Tanky on a new app called GigLogic designed by musicians for musicians. The app's developers Craig A. Meyer and Gary Arbuthnot say their software will help an act figure out which gigs to play and which to stay away from if they want to succeed on the road (or the high seas). GigLogic is supposed to help predict whether shows are going to be profitable or money-losers on both larger and smaller scale tours. Will this app result in some cities and towns around the country and around the...

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  Episode #17

  Major Labels Want The Indie Share Of The Record Biz, Now One Third Of The Global Pie

  Jul 14, 202620 minS0

  <p>Independent labels and music distributors have increased their market share to an astonishing one third of the total global recorded music revenue pool, according to sources Bill Hochberg and Sami Kazi reveal on this episode. And the major labels want to take a slice or two of that share for themselves, so they've established indie distribution arms to co-exist with their major label distribution businesses. How does this all work and what's the best way for an artist or indie label to understand and deal with the situation? Find out what's on the menu for the majors and whether...

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