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Music industry contributes £6.7 billion GVA to British economy

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UK Music • 3 min read

Music industry contributes £6.7 billion GVA to British economy

UK Music has published its annual report on the economic impact of the British music industry, which contributed £6.7 billion to the UK economy last year in terms of gross value added, with exports topping £4 billion…

Chris Cooke • 07 Nov 2023

Stream-ripper gets court order to identify who is behind rick-rolling Google takedown notices

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Y2Mate • 1 min read

Stream-ripper gets court order to identify who is behind rick-rolling Google takedown notices

Stream-ripper Y2Mate last week got a court order forcing Google to share information about who has been issuing copyright takedown notices against its website - it suspects a competitor has been issuing takedowns to negatively impact its Google ranking…

Chris Cooke • 07 Nov 2023

ISP Grande claims win after film producers drop copyright infringement lawsuit

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Grande Communications • 1 min read

ISP Grande claims win after film producers drop copyright infringement lawsuit

The group of film producers who sued US internet firm Grande Communications have dropped their lawsuit against the company, despite record labels winning $46.8 million in damages in a similar case…

Chris Cooke • 07 Nov 2023

GESAC welcomes European Parliament report on buy-outs in the creative sector

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GESAC • 2 min read

GESAC welcomes European Parliament report on buy-outs in the creative sector

GESAC has welcomed a new report commissioned by the European Parliament on buy-out contracts which, it says, “provides independent evidence and adds to the recent calls” for the European Commission to develop legislative proposals to restrict this practice in Europe…

Chris Cooke • 07 Nov 2023

Spotify two-tier payment "discriminatory and exploitative" says competition law expert

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Spotify • 4 min read

Spotify two-tier payment "discriminatory and exploitative" says competition law expert

Competition law expert Amelia Fletcher has written to Spotify boss Daniel Ek expressing concern about the plan to introduce a threshold below which tracks will not receive any royalties when they are streamed…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2023

First Astroworld lawsuit could get to court next May

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Astroworld • 2 min read

First Astroworld lawsuit could get to court next May

As the two year anniversary of the Astroworld tragedy passed this weekend so did the deadline for filing legal action in relation to the incident - hundreds of lawsuits continue to go through the motions, with the first set to get to trial next May…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2023

IPO seeks industry and music-maker input on music metadata study

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Economics Of Streaming • 1 min read

IPO seeks industry and music-maker input on music metadata study

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office has commissioned a study on music metadata as part of its ongoing economics of streaming work and is seeking input from labels, publishers and music-makers…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2023

Will Page study concludes that total music copyright revenues in 2022 grew 14% to $41.5 billion

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Will Page • 2 min read

Will Page study concludes that total music copyright revenues in 2022 grew 14% to $41.5 billion

Economist Will Page has published his annual study looking at the total value of the global music rights sector - confirming further impressive growth in 2022…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2023

Amy Winehouse estate sues friends of the late musician over auctions

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Amy Winehouse • 1 min read

Amy Winehouse estate sues friends of the late musician over auctions

The Amy Winehouse estate has gone legal over the sale of items that belonged to the late musician by two of her friends…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: Tech companies say fair use trumps copyright in AI

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AI • 2 min read

Setlist Podcast: Tech companies say fair use trumps copyright in AI

Big tech companies' insistence that training AI on existing content constitutes fair use under US copyright law, and the Grammy Awards' insistence that Christians do not swear…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 03 Nov 2023

US senators propose new laws to ramp up the battle against ticketing bots

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MAIN Event Ticketing Act • 2 min read

US senators propose new laws to ramp up the battle against ticketing bots

Two US senators have proposed new laws to better enforce the 2016 BOTS Act, which banned the use of bots by ticket touts to hoover up tickets to in-demand events from primary sellers…

Chris Cooke • 03 Nov 2023

Dua Lipa buys back song rights from TaP Music Publishing

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Dua Lipa • 1 min read

Dua Lipa buys back song rights from TaP Music Publishing

Dua Lipa has bought back her song rights from TaP Music Publishing, having previously parted company with the management division of TaP last year…

Chris Cooke • 03 Nov 2023