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The Coast Connect 004

Labels Team Up To Sue AI Companies, Find Your Missing Royalties, Grants & Open Calls

Future Surf, Scolla Fungwe & Cam Murdoch
June 26, 2024

There’s a lot going on within the Future Surf family, y’all are going crazy ngl - check out some of the community notes!

Community Notes

If you’re in NYC, our very own Brooke Leialoha is having a free album preview party with a stellar list of guest performers including another FSR regular, Black Watr.

Tickets are FREE with RSVP here.

DJ Twinny Twin says “The Storm Is Over Now”
Good News Bas drops “Rump” an ode to his OG & his upbringing.
ICYMI, June Jissle did a Juneteenth collab with Nickelodeon
Cam Murdoch’s Surf Noir Trailer 001 exhibited at Edge City
Tyler Donavan featured by BlkCreatives

If you have something you’d like to be included in the community notes section send it to us!

NEWS

AI vs The Music Industry

BREAKING: All 3 major labels are suing AI music generators Suno & Udio.
The RIAA is coordinating the lawsuits on behalf of Sony, Warner & UMG.
Hammer, dropped.
Here's the details:
Today, two federal copyright infringement lawsuits were filed:
1. against Suno in the District… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Rob Abelow (@AbelowRob)
3:54 PM • Jun 24, 2024

Notes.fm Wants to Help You Find Your Missing Royalties.

$500M+ in music royalties go unclaimed annually: the system is broken and needs to be easier to use and understand. Notes is building a solution so artists can finally know, collect, and grow the whole pie. If this sounds like something you believe should exist, join their waitlist here.

The “SoundCloud of Blockchain”, Audius Reaches Agreements With BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and More!

Songwriters whose songs are played on the Audius client will receive performance royalties via the PRO they are signed up with. Learn more about how to start earning performance royalties on Audius’ blog.

NEW RELEASES

Future Surf Selects Playlist

The FSR Selects playlist features picks from our staff and select songs curated from submissions to our weekly radio show. Best enjoyed on shuffle. 🔀