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Setlist: Tencent, TikTok, Katy Perry
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 12 August 2019
CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last few weeks, including Chinese web giant Tencent taking a 10% stake in Universal Music Group, TikTok taking ICE to the copyright tribunal and the big Katy Perry song theft case. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.
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Stories discussed this week:
• Vivendi confirms talks under way for Tencent to take 10% of Universal Music
• TikTok takes PRS and ICE to Copyright Tribunal
• TikTok says it hopes for “reasonable outcome” by taking ICE to Copyright Tribunal
• Court rules that Katy Perry ripped off Christian rap track on Dark Horse
• Joyful Noise makers now seek their share of the $41 million made by Katy Perry’s Dark Horse
• Katy Perry and co ordered to pay $2.7 million to rapper they ripped off
Also mentioned:
• There will be no Woodstock 50
• Official Receiver provides updates on PledgeMusic liquidation
• Spotify now has 108 million paying subscribers
• Mercury Prize shortlist
• CMU’s speculative Mercury Prize shortlist
• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book
