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Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr

2024/11/11

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Harvey Mason Jr. 阐述了录音学院的运作模式，格莱美奖是其主要收入来源，这些收入用于资助音乐家权益倡导、慈善活动和音乐教育等项目。他承认，这种模式存在一定程度的错位，并表示希望多元化收入来源，但目前仍依赖于与电视广播公司的合作。他还详细介绍了录音学院对投票成员进行的改革，旨在提高成员的多样性，使其更好地反映当今音乐行业的现状。在AI技术方面，他表示，录音学院允许使用AI技术的音乐作品参加格莱美奖评选，但他同时也表达了对AI技术可能对人类创造力造成威胁的担忧，并强调需要建立保护人类创意的机制。 Nila Patel 则提出了对录音学院商业模式的质疑，认为其对电视转播收入的依赖过高，并探讨了如何平衡格莱美奖的商业价值与社会责任。她还关注了格莱美奖评选结果与大众期待之间的冲突，以及互联网对音乐流派界限模糊化带来的挑战。此外，她还探讨了AI技术对音乐产业的潜在颠覆性影响，以及如何解决AI技术带来的版权和道德问题。

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The Recording Academy, known for the Grammy Awards, generates revenue from the show to fund programs like Music Cares, which supports musicians in need, and advocacy for music rights. The academy aims to diversify its revenue streams and better communicate its mission to the creative community.

The Grammy show is the primary source of revenue for the Recording Academy.
Revenue from the show funds Music Cares, advocacy for music rights, and music education programs.
The academy aims to diversify revenue streams beyond the Grammy show.

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Harvey Mason, Jr is CEO of the Recording Academy, the nonprofit organization most famous for the Grammy Awards. We spoke right before this year's Grammy nominations came out, and you'll hear us talk a whole lot about the changes he's tried to make with how the awarding membership works.

I always say to watch what’s happening to the music industry because it’s a preview into what will happen to every other creative industry five years later. My chat with Harvey really drove the point home: AI, diversity, streaming distribution... it's all here, and all the tensions that come with.

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- 2025 Grammy nominations: The complete list) | NPR

- The Grammys Move From CBS To Disney In Major 10-Year Deal) | Deadline

- Recording Academy boots Grammy voters) | Los Angeles Times

- Chappell Roan and the problem with fandom) | Vox

- Grammys CEO: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible) | AP News

- Deborah Dugan Grammys Controversy: What to Know) | Time

- For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story) | Wall Street Journal (2014)

- AI is on a collision course with music) | Decoder

- Elvis Costello defends Olivia Rodrigo over ‘Brutal’ plagiarism claim) | BBC

- Why Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen thinks AI is the future) | Decoder

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