CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Alewya, Pigeon, Robyn, Lambrini Girls + Getdown Services…
Music industry trade bodies join forces with music publishers to defeat Anthropic’s “AI is fair use” defence
The music publishers suing Anthropic recently asked the judge to reject the AI company’s fair use defence. Now eight music industry organisations have filed an amicus brief also arguing that AI training can never be fair use, because the development of AI music models causes market dilution…
Universal CEO Lucian Grainge makes 764 times more than his employees - and female staff get 48% less than male counterparts
Universal Music published its annual report earlier this week. Buried in the 295 page document are a number of startling revelations about the “most successful music company in the world” - the most shocking being that women working for Universal make just half what their male counterparts are paid…
Judges keep overriding artist safeguards say Salt N Pepa in latest termination rights filing
Salt N Pepa have filed an appeal in their termination rights dispute with Universal. Not only was the judge wrong to dismiss their lawsuit seeking to reclaim ownership of 1980s recordings, but - they say - her decision continues a trend of judges overriding artist safeguards put in place by Congress…
Kanye West’s three night Wireless booking criticised by antisemitism campaigners
Kanye West headlining this year’s Wireless festival is proving controversial. Antisemitism campaigners have criticised the rapid rehabilitation of the rapper, noting that - while West apologised for past antisemitic statements in January - his “cycle of apology and relapse has become a routine”…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Victoria Parkey
This week, we caught up with freelance creative & cultural strategist Victoria Parkey.…
Wu-Tang Clan fans offered refunds after “all members” tour was missing four members
Wu-Tang Clan fans in Australia were told that “all members” of the hip hop group would be taking part in their final ever shows in the country. But then four of them didn’t show up for the first gig in Brisbane. Fans were then given the option to claim a refund ahead of shows in Melbourne and Sydney…
🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor
Shock Corridor’s songs don't so much arrive as accumulate, stretched and shaped through live performance until they’ve got a kind of bone-density to them. New track ‘Buster’ is beautifully atmospheric, though not in any passive sense. It recalls the tense, watchful mood of ‘A Forest’ by The Cure…
X says Cox ruling means music publishers’ copyright litigation must now be dismissed
X is hoping the US Supreme Court ruling in the majors v Cox case can help it win a legal battle with a group of music publishers. They argue X is liable for copyright infringement by hosting videos that contain unlicensed music, but X says in the wake of Cox that argument “fails as a matter of law”…
Major music publishers buy into termination rights lawsuit to take fight to Supreme Court
The three majors and BMG really want the US Supreme Court to intervene in the legal battle that set a major new creator-friendly precedent when it comes to the termination right under US copyright law. So much so they have acquired an interest in the song that is at the heart of that legal battle…
Universal responds to “nonsensical” defamation appeal filed by the “astoundingly hypocritical” Drake
Universal has responded to Drake’s attempt to appeal the dismissal of his defamation lawsuit against the major over its role in releasing Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’, which included the infamous “certified pedophile” lyric. Drake’s appeal, it says, is “nonsensical” and “astoundingly hypocritical”…
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