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Henry Marsden

@hennersM

Recovering bass player // Startup starter-upper

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fixmusic.ai
Joined June 2009
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Day One.

Day One.

In Data Room Lies I argued that a schedule of works is a claim rather than a fact, and that buyers should test it before they price a deal. This week we pick up where that one left off- what happens...

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Interpolation Nation linkedin.com/pulse/interpola…

Interpolation Nation

In the 1970s it took an average of 1.7 songwriters to write a hit, today it takes around 4.

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The Leakage Ledger, Vol. 1 linkedin.com/pulse/leakage-l…
The Leakage Ledger, Vol. 1

The Leakage Ledger, Vol. 1

I write a lot about data quality in music rights. I tend to deliberately keep this high level- the issues so often are sustained by political inertia more than lack of technology options to solve.

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Emptying the Black Box linkedin.com/pulse/emptying-…
Emptying the Black Box

Emptying the Black Box

Last year I wrote about real issues to be found in the MLC’s dataset- an exploration of what was really sitting inside the industry's most transparent copyright dataset. The headline then: the MLC...

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The Metadata Iceberg linkedin.com/pulse/metadata-…
The Metadata Iceberg

The Metadata Iceberg

Most catalog cleanup projects begin in a familiar place- are the right recordings attached to the right works. Are all the ISRCs present? Are they linked to the correct compositions? Are those links...

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All Change Please- These Rights Terminate Here

All Change Please- These Rights Terminate Here

US termination rights have been somewhat of an industry secret in times gone by- and understandably so given their creator friendly purpose. For any not familiar, this is the legal right of a...

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AI Will Not Fix Publishing Metadata (Until Publishers Know What They Are Fixing) linkedin.com/pulse/ai-fix-pu…

AI Will Not Fix Publishing Metadata (Until Publishers Know What They Are Fixing)

For all the excitement around AI in music, one of the most important questions for publishers is also one of the least glamorous. What exactly is AI being asked to solve? In recent months, much of...

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Are We Outsourcing Thinking?

Are We Outsourcing Thinking?

One of the most important questions around AI is no longer whether it can make individual workers more productive. A well-used AI tool can help a good developer move faster, a good analyst test more...

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Eurgh AI "You're right to push back...."
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Check out my latest newsletter: Exit Strategy linkedin.com/pulse/exit-stra…
Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy

A significant portion of the last decade in the Music Industry has been spent discussing capital inflows. Billions has poured into catalogs, billions into infrastructure and billions into technology...

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What a Fund wants, what a Fund needs linkedin.com/pulse/what-fund…
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AI: Growth, Control, and the Future of Creative Value linkedin.com/pulse/ai-growth…
AI: Growth, Control, and the Future of Creative Value

AI: Growth, Control, and the Future of Creative Value

For all the noise around AI over the past year- new models, new capabilities, new fear- the most important developments haven’t been technical, but structural. In recent months, the UK government has...

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Listen to I’m The Problem - Album by Morgan Wallen | Spotify

Listen to I’m The Problem - Album by Morgan Wallen | Spotify

Morgan Wallen · album · 2025 · 37 songs

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Costs and Incentives in Music Publishing linkedin.com/pulse/costs-inc…
Costs and Incentives in Music Publishing

Costs and Incentives in Music Publishing

Everyone in publishing knows the simple truth- there shouldn’t be missing royalties in the digital age and there is a tax to identifying and retrieving them. The explosion in the number of recordings...

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"'Algorithm' is arguably the single most important concept in our world" - @harari_yuval
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The MLC’s Next Phase: Identification to Allocation linkedin.com/pulse/mlcs-next…
The MLC’s Next Phase: Identification to Allocation

The MLC’s Next Phase: Identification to Allocation

Since The MLC’s inception in 2018 through to the start of its start of distributions in 2021 and beyond it has been closely watched- by the market at large, by key stake holding publishers and by...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Operational Alpha: The Overlooked Return in Music Catalogs linkedin.com/pulse/operation…

Operational Alpha: The Overlooked Return in Music Catalogs

As we all know, the conversation around music catalog investments has become increasingly sophisticated as the asset class has matured. Investors, operators and the over-burgeoning ‘services market’...

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Crispin Hunt
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Songwriters are often called the unsung heroes of the Music Business. And it’s true, without songwriters there would be no jobs in Music. But unsung? Err! We sing their songs every day. It all starts with the songwriter.
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Remajorisation

Remajorisation

In the past month alone we’ve seen three announcements that are as fascinating individually as they are illustrative collectively: Primary Wave in talks to acquire Kobalt BMG reportedly exploring a...

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Music Rights Market Trends 2026 linkedin.com/pulse/music-rig…
Music Rights Market Trends

Music Rights Market Trends

There was a moment, not that long ago, when music rights acquisitions felt almost mechanical- streaming growth was steady, capital was abundant. The underwriting conversation revolved around a small...

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