🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Rachel June
This week we spoke with Rachel June, Music Editor at ASBO Magazine - a platform championing boundary-pushing creativity, authentic storytelling and the next wave of music talent.…
Artificial Intelligence
EU AI Act
European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA)
International Artist Organisation
Henna Virkkunen
Glenn MIcallef
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EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter
Spotify’s Discovery Mode tricks people into listening to Drake, alleges payola lawsuit
Spotify has been sued over Discovery Mode, with subscriber Genevieve Capolongo claiming the “personalised listening experience” she was promised was ruined because the streaming service sold her recommendations “to the highest bidder”. It’s the second class action filed against Spotify this week…
Songwriter CMOs collected €12.59 billion in 2024, but AI "threatens future of creative sector”, says CISAC
CISAC has published its annual ‘Global Collections Report’, showing that songwriter CMOs collected €12.59 billion in 2024, with total collections up 7.2% year-on-year. However, CISAC chief Gadi Oron says, despite the growth, challenges caused by AI “threaten the future of the creative sector”…
“Misleading rhetoric and “deceitful buzzwords” not good enough, says Council Of Music Makers in call for creator consent, control and compensation in AI deals
Following last week’s announcement that Universal Music has signed deals with AI companies Udio and Stability, the UK’s Council Of Music Makers has called on the music industry to pledge to secure explicit music creator consent before including their recordings and songs in any AI deals…
🎧 Approved: Amanda Bergman
Part-time regenerative farmer, part-time songwriter, Amanda Bergman makes music with the same patient, restorative quality that guides her offstage life. Recorded almost entirely live at the legendary ABBA studio, new single ‘Grasp’ is a song of soft electronics and muted magnificence…
Axing of controversial EBacc is a “step in the right direction” for music education says Ed Sheeran
The UK government has axed the controversial EBacc, which deprioritised creative subjects like music in English schools. In a letter to Ed Sheeran, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says changes now being made to the English schools curriculum will ensure “creativity isn’t a privilege, but a right”…
Former Guns N Roses manager sues band over autobiography blocker clause
Guns N Roses are trying to block their former manager, Alan G Niven, from publishing an autobiography by citing a confidentiality term in a 1991 agreement. Niven has responded by suing the band, arguing that contract term is “unconscionable”, and has been repeatedly broken by the band themselves…
🎧 Approved: Ethel
Parisian songstress Ethel has a way of making music feel physical. New single ‘Sorted’, produced with longtime collaborator Banshee The Great, sounds both handmade and a little cosmic. Synths blink in and out like city lights, a bassline hums low to the ground, and Ethel’s voice dances atop…
Judgement in Getty’s UK lawsuit against Stability “underscores growing gap” between copyright and tech, says leading lawyer
Stability AI has won its copyright dispute with Getty Images in the UK courts. This began as what many saw as the landmark AI copyright case under UK law, of relevance to all rights owners, including in the music industry. However, in the end the judge only considered a very narrow copyright issue…
“Innovation can’t be built on stolen goods” says Koda CEO, as Danish collecting society sues Suno
We have another music industry AI lawsuit in Europe. Danish collecting society Koda is suing Suno which it says has stolen “our members’ creative work and fed it into its machines without consent, transparency or remuneration”. It follows German society GEMA in suing Suno for copyright infringement…
Spotify’s streaming fraud initiatives are “nothing more than window dressing” says rapper RBX as he files class action lawsuit
Spotify is being sued for allegedly “turning a blind eye” to streaming fraud. Rapper RBX says that Spotify’s anti-fraud procedures are “nothing more than window dressing”, because the streaming service benefits from having fraudsters set up accounts. He’s suing for negligence and unfair competition…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from ROSALÍA’s, Björk, Yves Tumor, Swank Mami, EsDeeKid, Florence + the Machine, Chy Cartier + Lil Yachty…
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