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Biggest IP Story Hits the Industry + Music from Climate Data

Biggest IP Story Hits the Industry + Music from Climate Data

Nathan Fields
September 12, 2025

The Rareform Rundown #78

Hello Friends,

Nathan here, hope your week treated you well, we’ve got couple of projects to share for this week along some news about what’s being called the biggest case of intellectual property theft in history, and an interesting story about how decades of climate data were turned into music.

Let’s dive in!

New projects + music we are looking for

PROJECTS

Good surprise this week! We just got a word that our track Rage Unleashed by Joey Westerlund was featured in this spot for Horizon: An American Saga. Excited to see this one out in the wild!

Hyped to be part of the I Know What You Did Last Summer campaign, with our sound design in the mix! Big thanks to our friends at Sony Pictures for having us on this one.

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The overlap between AI and music keeps getting more complicated. A new investigation from the International Confederation of Music Publishers found evidence that millions of copyrighted songs may have been scraped from platforms like YouTube and Spotify to train AI models. The material mentioned includes everything from global icons like The Beatles and Beyoncé to countless other artists.

The report is the result of two years of research, pulling from leaked documents, open repositories, and insight from AI experts. The takeaway is simple: this is a huge, ongoing issue in the music world. If you’re curious, read more here:

Tech Giants Accused of the Largest Intellectual Property Theft in History

Major tech companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and X are accused of illegally scraping copyrighted music to train AI. The ICMP calls it the largest intellectual property theft in history, involving millions of songs by artists from The Beatles to Beyoncé. The findings spotlight urgent debates on AI, copyright, and the protection of music rights. #AIMusic #Copyright #MusicIndustry

www.rareformaudio.com/blog/largest-intellectual-property-theft-ai-music

When climate change comes up, most of us picture charts, graphs, or photos of ice sheets breaking apart. A scientist and composer in Japan decided to take a different route: turning decades of polar climate data into music. Scientist spent time transforming records from 1982 to 2022 into a six-minute piece for string quartet. It’s a way of taking something that usually feels abstract and translating it into sound, giving people a chance to connect with the data in a new way.

The piece is called String Quartet No. 1 “Polar Energy Budget”, and it’s built from measurements of solar radiation, heat flow, and surface temperature across Arctic and Antarctic sites. Instead of numbers on a page, you hear melody, harmony, and rhythm that mirror changes in some of the most climate-sensitive regions on Earth. It’s a creative reminder that science doesn’t always have to be explained with charts alone.

Climate Data Turned Into Music: A String Quartet That Brings Warming to Life

Climate change data is being transformed into powerful music. Japanese scientist Hiroto Nagai created a string quartet from 30 years of polar climate records, while London’s Climate Symphony collective sonifies decades of data into symphonies. Both projects reveal how sound can translate science into emotion. #ClimateChange #MusicInnovation #Sonification #ClimateAction

www.rareformaudio.com/blog/climate-change-data-into-music

Alright friends, that’s it for this week, thanks for following along and we’ll catch you next time!

-Nathan

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