FMiguelez wrote: I predict the PROs will cease to exist, though, probably a little sooner, but not in the next 50-60 years.
So, the bet is that the human race is going to prefer music composed by AI? Yea, right. "Roll over, Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news."
Even if machines are composing, the music still needs to be published. Publishers are 50% of PROs. Things are changing but they aren't going away anytime soon.