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Music industry celebrates YouTube passing 100 million premium subscribers

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YouTube • 3 min read

Music industry celebrates YouTube passing 100 million premium subscribers

The music industry has welcomed the news that YouTube now has more than 100 million subscribers for its premium services, which include YouTube Music - with praise lavished on the once hated video platform by various music companies as it declared the news…

Chris Cooke • 02 Feb 2024

TikTok accuses Universal of “greed” and “false narrative”, begins removing tracks

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TikTok • 2 min read

TikTok accuses Universal of “greed” and “false narrative”, begins removing tracks

Universal Music released tracks are being removed from TikTok’s music library following the breakdown of licensing talks between the major and the social media platform - if no new deal is agreed the dispute will also mean Universal published songs being blocked, which will impact on other labels…

Chris Cooke • 01 Feb 2024

Seat At The Table report on diversity in industry organisations showcases "a powerful signal of the progress and change"

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Women In CTRL • 4 min read

Seat At The Table report on diversity in industry organisations showcases "a powerful signal of the progress and change"

The latest ‘Seat At The Table’ report has been published by Women In CTRL, tracking diversity within the UK music industry’s trade organisations - 52% of board members at those organisations are now women…

Chris Cooke • 01 Feb 2024

RIAA welcomes US government's latest piracy reports, but urges a "close look" at voice cloning sites

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Piracy • 2 min read

RIAA welcomes US government's latest piracy reports, but urges a "close look" at voice cloning sites

The office of the US Trade Representative has published its annual ‘Notorious Markets Report’ that lists online platforms that concern American copyright owners - the record industry has welcomed the report even though its request that unofficial voice cloning sites be included was ignored…

Chris Cooke • 01 Feb 2024

71% of music creators fear multi-billion dollar music AI business could stop songwriters from earning a living, says new report

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Artificial Intelligence • 3 min read

71% of music creators fear multi-billion dollar music AI business could stop songwriters from earning a living, says new report

Music industry collecting societies GEMA and SACEM have published a report on music and AI, based on a survey of 15,000 songwriter and publisher members. It sets out the opportunities and the threats posed by AI to the music-making community…

Chris Cooke • 31 Jan 2024

UK government publishes new UK streaming transparency code

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Economics Of Streaming • 3 min read

UK government publishes new UK streaming transparency code

Part of the UK government’s wider work on the economics of music streaming, a transparency code has been published which sees streaming services and music companies commit to provide more information to artists, songwriters and their managers about digital deals and royalties…

Chris Cooke • 31 Jan 2024

Spotify hits out at Apple's plan to comply with EU's Digital Markets Act

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Spotify • 4 min read

Spotify hits out at Apple's plan to comply with EU's Digital Markets Act

Spotify has criticised the way Apple is changing its App Store rules in Europe in order to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act - it argues those changes do not deal with the issues it has raised about Apple's in-app payment rules and which it hoped the DMA would solve…

Chris Cooke • 30 Jan 2024

Coldplay partners with MIT to study the live music industry’s carbon footprint

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Coldplay • 1 min read

Coldplay partners with MIT to study the live music industry’s carbon footprint

Academics at MIT have announced a study into the environmental impact of the live music industry backed by Coldplay alongside their label Warner Music and promoter Live Nation - it follows Coldplay’s bid to reduce the carbon emissions of their tours by 50%…

Chris Cooke • 30 Jan 2024

Sony fails to get Experience Hendrix lawsuit thrown out of UK court

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Experience Hendrix • 2 min read

Sony fails to get Experience Hendrix lawsuit thrown out of UK court

A UK judge has said that a dispute over the rights in the Jimi Hendrix Experience catalogue can proceed to trial - the estates of two of Hendrix’s former bandmates, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, claim they are due royalties from those recordings…

Chris Cooke • 30 Jan 2024

Explicit AI-generated Taylor Swift images prompt renewed calls for new anti-deepfake laws

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Taylor Swift • 2 min read

Explicit AI-generated Taylor Swift images prompt renewed calls for new anti-deepfake laws

Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift circulated on X last week, putting the focus back on proposals in US Congress to introduce new laws to stop unapproved deepfakes. X said the Swift images broke its existing rules covering “non-consensual nudity” and were being removed…

Chris Cooke • 29 Jan 2024

East London residents hit out at increase in number of Victoria Park festivals

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Victoria Park • 2 min read

East London residents hit out at increase in number of Victoria Park festivals

Tower Hamlets Council last year approved a plan to allow more major events to be staged in East London’s Victoria Park - currently home to AEG’s All Points East festival - but last week local residents hit out at the plan, presenting a petition to the local authority…

Chris Cooke • 29 Jan 2024

StubHub accused of consistently underestimating its own fees in new lawsuit

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StubHub • 2 min read

StubHub accused of consistently underestimating its own fees in new lawsuit

Secondary ticketing website StubHub has been accused of misleading customers by consistently underestimating its own fees on its US website. That allegation has been made in a lawsuit that seeks to hold the resale site liable for fraud and unjust enrichment…

Chris Cooke • 29 Jan 2024