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One Liners: ERA, Raye, Ice Spice, Easy Life + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 3 min read

One Liners: ERA, Raye, Ice Spice, Easy Life + more

Block acquires Hifi; Audoo expands down under; Concord signs Amaarae; ERA, Orchard, BandLab and Banner Music appointments; new releases from Raye, Ice Spice and Remi, Easy Life, Joel Culpepper, M83, and Barry Can’t Swim; Christine And The Queen gig cancellations…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 17 Oct 2023

FREENOW launches new scheme to support grassroots venues

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Music Venue Trust • 1 min read

FREENOW launches new scheme to support grassroots venues

Taxi app FREENOW has announced a new scheme that will provide at least £200,000 in support for Music Venue Trust’s Pipeline Investment Fund…

Chris Cooke • 17 Oct 2023

Hipgnosis Songs Fund scraps interim dividend after reducing expectations from Copyright Royalty Board windfall

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Hipgnosis • 3 min read

Hipgnosis Songs Fund scraps interim dividend after reducing expectations from Copyright Royalty Board windfall

The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has told investors that extra payments due as a result of the final Copyright Royalty Board ruling on US streaming royalties will be significantly less than previously estimated, $9.9 million instead of $21.7 million…

Chris Cooke • 16 Oct 2023

Megan Thee Stallion has "no label right now" and that's how she wants it

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Megan Thee Stallion • 2 min read

Megan Thee Stallion has "no label right now" and that's how she wants it

Megan Thee Stallion says she will self-release her next record because “I don’t want to sign to a new label right now”. She has had multiple legal run-ins with her former label 1501 Entertainment…

Chris Cooke • 16 Oct 2023

US internet organisations support Grande's appeal in record industry copyright battle

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Grande Communications • 2 min read

US internet organisations support Grande's appeal in record industry copyright battle

Two trade organisations for the US internet sector have submitted an amicus brief in support of Grande Communications as it continues in its legal battle with the record industry, seeking to overturn a $46.8 million judgement…

Chris Cooke • 16 Oct 2023

CMU Digest: RIAA, Utopia, Easy Life, Coldplay, Hipgnosis

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CMU Digest • 5 min read

CMU Digest: RIAA, Utopia, Easy Life, Coldplay, Hipgnosis

Catch up on key events this week, including the RIAA adding voice cloning sites to its piracy gripe list, more revelations about Utopia’s finances, Easy Life conceding defeat in trademark battle, Coldplay suing their ex-manager, and unhappy Hipgnosis shareholders planning to block a catalogue sale…

Chris Cooke • 14 Oct 2023

Setlist Podcast: Easy Life agree to change their name for an easyLife

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Easy Life • 2 min read

Setlist Podcast: Easy Life agree to change their name for an easyLife

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke take a look at the trademark claim brought against the band Easy Life by EasyJet airline owner EasyGroup and Coldplay’s multi-million pound legal battle with their former manager…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 14 Oct 2023

US senators propose new law to ban unauthorised AI voice clone

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NO FAKES Act • 2 min read

US senators propose new law to ban unauthorised AI voice clone

Four US senators have released a discussion draft of what they are calling the NO FAKES Act, which would make it illegal to use generative AI to generate content that imitates the voice or likeness of actors and artists without their permission…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2023

SACEM formally opts out of European data mining exception, so permission must be sought for AI training

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Artificial Intelligence • 2 min read

SACEM formally opts out of European data mining exception, so permission must be sought for AI training

French collecting society SACEM has confirmed that anyone training AI models with its members’ music must first get permission, as it has formally opted out of a data mining exception that is provided by European copyright law…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2023

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DEAG • 1 min read

DEAG takes full ownership of I-Motion

DEAG has taken complete ownership of I-Motion, the festivals company behind events like Nature One, it having bought a 50.1% stake in the company back in 2019…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2023

1Xtra confirms host of new Birmingham-based morning show

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BBC 1Xtra • 1 min read

1Xtra confirms host of new Birmingham-based morning show

BBC 1Xtra has confirmed that Day Day will host its new morning show startig next year - it will be broadcast from Birmingham making it the second daily show on the station not made in London…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2023

Family of late Kiss guitar tech sue band over their COVID protocols during 2021 tour

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Kiss • 2 min read

Family of late Kiss guitar tech sue band over their COVID protocols during 2021 tour

The family of late guitar tech Francis Stueber have sued Kiss. He died of COVID while touring with the band in 2021 and the family say that was because there were inadequate safety measures in place as Kiss toured during the pandemic…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2023