The music industry is reeling due to what’s being called the 'largest intellectual property theft in history' — we’ll dig into the fight between Big Tech and the people who make the music. Meanwhile, Sweden’s new cultural canon has people fuming — not least because it leaves out ABBA.
We’ll also hear from Der Spiegel’s Gunter Latsch about his <a href='https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/organ-trafficking-how-germans-buy-new-kidneys-in-kenya-a-a16089cf-5bb6-40d3-ac38-fac8ef3eff4d'>chilling investigation</a> into the shadowy world of organ trafficking. And we’ll finish, as always, with something a little lighter: archaeologists in Denmark have been uncovering a kind of Stone Age Atlantis beneath the sea and they’ve been using a funky <a href='https://youtu.be/m2qneYor8AU?si=lYv4ZJ5c5IL47cRm&t=48'>underwater vacuum to do so</a>.
This week's Inspiration Station recommendations: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1MurGQHxA'>Addison Rae - 'Headphones On' | Behind the Song</a> and <a href='https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56845482-love-in-five-acts'>Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien (translated by Jamie Bulloch)</a>
 
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Other resources for this week's episode:
No Abba, no meatballs? Sweden’s new cultural canon is a listicle that will soon be forgotten:
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/sweden-cultural-canon-abba-ikea-meatballs'>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/sweden-cultural-canon-abba-ikea-meatballs</a>
 
Since we recorded this episode, a US federal judge has postponed approval of the $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright deal: <a href='https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done'>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done</a>
 
Taskforce recommends prosecution of Mishra for alleged organ trafficking:
<a href='https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/health-science/article/2001525127/taskforce-recommends-prosecution-of-mishra-for-alleged-organ-trafficking'>https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/health-science/article/2001525127/taskforce-recommends-prosecution-of-mishra-for-alleged-organ-trafficking</a> 
 
00:00:47 Introduction: Emoji fuelled marital strife
00:04:26 Good Week: Sweden’s controversial ’cultural canon’
00:13:31 Bad Week: The fight between AI and musicians
00:27:05 Interview: Gunther Latch on Germans going abroad for kidneys
00:40:51 Inspiration Station: ’Headphones On’ and ’Love in Five Acts’
00:46:01 Happy Ending: Denmark’s Stone Age Atlantis
 
Producers: Katz Laszlo, Morgan Childs and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
Hosts: Nina Lamparski and Dominic Kraemer
 
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