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Chris Cooke

Chris Cooke

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Political leaders should use UK-EU Summit to “break the deadlock over touring the UK and the EU”, say 300+ cultural industry groups public
Brexit • 3 min read

Political leaders should use UK-EU Summit to “break the deadlock over touring the UK and the EU”, say 300+ cultural industry groups

Next week political leaders from the UK and EU will meet for a UK-EU Summit. The music and wider cultural industries want the issues faced by British performers touring Europe post-Brexit to be one of the issues discussed, urging the politician to “break the deadlock over touring the UK and the EU”…
Chris Cooke
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“Sanity must prevail” says Robbie Williams as everyone agrees not to sue Olivia Rodrigo over her new familiar sounding Christmas song public
Olivia Rodrigo • 6 min read

“Sanity must prevail” says Robbie Williams as everyone agrees not to sue Olivia Rodrigo over her new familiar sounding Christmas song

Lots of people have observed that Olivia Rodrigo’s new track ‘Take Me Home (4 Christmas)’ sounds quite like two existing pop songs, ‘Christmas Wrapping’ by The Waitresses and ‘Candy’ by Robbie Williams. However neither of those artists plans to sue, which is sensible and rationale, but no fun at all…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
ABBA’s Agnetha didn’t really sing backing vocals for Daniel O’Donnell: Irish collecting societies face off in court over dodgy data and disputed deductions public
RAAP • 4 min read

ABBA’s Agnetha didn’t really sing backing vocals for Daniel O’Donnell: Irish collecting societies face off in court over dodgy data and disputed deductions

Ten years ago Irish performer collecting society RAAP sued label collecting society PPI, claiming it was inappropriately deducting money from payments due to performers. After a detour via EU courts, the dispute is now in the Irish High Court, with allegations of dodgy data being made by both sides…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Spotify aiming to get AI remix product live in early 2027, even though it remains unclear if artists and fans are all that interested in it public
Spotify • 5 min read

Spotify aiming to get AI remix product live in early 2027, even though it remains unclear if artists and fans are all that interested in it

Spotify is reportedly hoping to launch its much hyped AI remix tool early next year. It’s not really clear that music creators or fans are all that excited about the proposition, though Universal says conversations with artists about opting into the the AI gimmick are actually going “extremely well”…
Chris Cooke
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