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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, large-scale gatherings were effectively banned, and music events of all sizes ground to a halt. In the rush to find alternatives, online streaming emerged as the cost-efficient, safety-conscious solution: hop on Instagram Live and broadcast a performance to the masses sitting at home, with little else to do but escape…

A month ago, The Atlantic published an investigation into four publicly circulating datasets that together contained roughly 21.2 million copyrighted recordings. Accompanying it was a free tool that allowed artists to check whether their songs appeared in the collections. In the week that followed, artists whose music appeared in the results expressed their dismay, with…