EP30 Bandcamp Keeps It Human | UMG Education Pilot & Fender Custom LA / Eaton Fires Guitar

Описание: Bandcamp recently announced, "music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." But what does that mean, how will they enforce it, and what exceptions do they make?

We dive in. In good news, we share a fundraising effort by Fender and Habitat for Humanity to raise money for housing in LA by auctioning custom guitars made from trees affected by last year's fires. Then we discuss a new global initiative by Universal Music Group to empower music education. Is it a good thing, or just another corporate cashgrab?

0:00 Intro
07:05 Bandcamp
20:55 UMG EDU
34:55 Fender & the Los Angeles Fires
46:33 Take It or Leave It

Stay to the end for this week's Take It Or Leave It advice, which has to do with doomscrolling.


Episode Links:
Keeping Bandcamp Human https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/...


AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
by Cory Doctorow for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/n...


Fender Is Turning Fire-Damaged Trees Into Custom Guitars To Help Rebuild Altadena After The Eaton Fire – Here’s How by Sarah Nash for Secret Los Angeles
https://secretlosangeles.com/fender-c...

GiveButter - Altadena Telecaster https://givebutter.com/c/AltadenaTele...

Universal Music Group Launches 'Sound generation' Education Pilot in the UK
by Rafaela Fornitani for Music Business Worldwide
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...