Today, Music Canada CEO Patrick Rogers shared his annual “State of the Industry” remarks at Departure, followed by an informed discussion about the political shifts that are affecting the global music industry. Each year, CMW was always a time that we could cover all the most important issues of the day not just for our members but the Canadian industry as a whole and we are thrilled that Departure has given us the opportunity to do the same here, in a new setting, with a new vibe, with artists and their creations at the centre of the programming. To fully realizing that the reason that generative AI models kept producing rip offs of the world’s most famous music was because the AI was ripping off the world’s most famous music.