Sharooz Raoofi

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

Took a System 100 modular, a battered old Pearl drum kit, some odd vocal grunts and an entire rack of Space Echoes and made my first record in almost a year. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it x

https://t.co/80IpztAzYB

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@RIAA @udiomusic 👌🏼

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@udiomusic If you’re not licensing legally you’re thieves.

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@NicoleMoudaber With everything going on in the world right now you’d think there’d be a bit of courtesy and common sense amongst DJs. But nah, this is DJs we’re talking about

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@ednewtonrex Wrote about this yesterday and some of the responses were mind blowing. “Who needs copyright anyway, copyright is done” type posts. There’s a weird insinuation that stealing or giving little regard to training data legitimacy makes you some kind of maverick visionary.

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@VancityReynolds Fantastic. Love everything about this story ❤️

[MusicRadar @MusicRadar]

"Platforms don't need to be complex, or for someone to be hoovering up that much of the income": Wavetick on their new artist and producer-focused sample marketplace https://t.co/Bty1VORYKP

[Magnetic Magazine @magnetic_mag]

Step up your music game with revenue wisdom from Sharooz Raoofi.

https://t.co/Km3mWAhjX6

[Music Ally @MusicAlly]

Wavetick (@wavetickmusic) launches, offering a marketplace for royalty-free music with 600k+ downloads. Promises creators 87.5% of fees and rights retention.

https://t.co/S8Bc7neiWy

#Wavetick #MusicLicensing #RoyaltyFreeMusic #musically #musicnews #readmore

[Music Connection @musicconnection]

Licensable Music Marketplace Wavetick launches with industry-leading sales shares for creators and instant payouts https://t.co/J2fkSUqsfw

[Wavetick @wavetickmusic]

Wavetick founder Sharooz Raoofi discusses how to get started generating income as an upcoming producer, with Magentic Magazine

https://t.co/CXrbZwWZFj

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@ramthelinefeed @WeAreTheMU How are their views not aligned with diversity and inclusion?

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

Grateful for the incredibly kind words and news pieces in the past few weeks on Wavetick. Huge thanks to Sound on Sound, Music Tech, Future Music, Bedroom Producers Blog and the many others. We’re just getting started

[Sound On Sound @soundonsoundmag]

SOS NEWS!

@wavetickmusic is a new music marketplace established by former Splice executive and Sample Magic founder Sharooz Raoofi. The service provides a quick and easy way to purchase or sell copyright-free beats, whilst providing clear flexible terms

https://t.co/bar6p8D4Rg

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

We’ve had 600,000 individual sound downloads on Wavetick in 6 weeks.

While I’m incredibly proud of our team, it’s just the start.. there’s so much more to our platform.

Limited edition works, one price for ALL use tracks, instant selling, i can go on.. https://t.co/8ylhcBAXrt

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

A friendly reminder you can sell beats and sound packs on @wavetickmusic, receive over 85% of sales income, get paid instantly,l and cancel any time. It’s free to use and you can set your own pricing. 50/50 is a bullshit concept. Don’t stand for it.

https://t.co/vTknQEVwLd

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I hear many people say it's unrealistic to expect all creators behind training data to receive micropayments whenever a generative AI model trained on their work is used. This strikes me as being a very weak argument.

First, it's a straw man: there are many different business models for training data licensing. To name a few: upfront payment, payment upon training, equal revenue share, weighted revenue share based on impact on output, equity-for-data. Making out there's just one proposed solution is intentional misdirection.

Second, it suggests it's not already happening. This is false. There are already a number of gen AI companies who take exactly this approach.

Third, it suggests that payments to a large number of creative contributors is an impossible problem to solve. It's not: there are existing mechanisms in place that do precisely this outside of generative AI.

And fourth, it often comes as part of a suggestion that the responsibility should be on the creative industries to work out how to license their content to gen AI companies. But this has it backwards. It is not incumbent on creators to create business models that work for the gen AI industry. If gen AI companies need training data, it is their job to propose licensing structures that make it worth creators' while.

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@Blessed_Madonna This is beautiful, good on you guys!

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

@Louth @wavetickmusic Thanks!

[Sharooz Raoofi @Sharooz]

Excited to launch @wavetickmusic today. A marketplace for buying / selling licensable tracks and sounds. Users keep 90% income with instant payouts and can sell 1 of 1, limited and unlimited beats. Our commission is just 12.5%.

Let’s put creators first!

https://t.co/IciKMzWDOn