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CMU Digest: Competition concerns about new Spotify model, another Astroworld lawsuit + more

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CMU Digest • 5 min read

CMU Digest: Competition concerns about new Spotify model, another Astroworld lawsuit + more

In this week's digest: Competition law expert raises concerns about new Spotify royalties model; Travis Scott and Live Nation face another Astroworld lawsuit; new stats from UK Music and Will Page + more…

Chris Cooke • 11 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: Competition law concerns over Spotify’s royalty plans

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Spotify • 3 min read

Setlist Podcast: Competition law concerns over Spotify’s royalty plans

Competition law expert Amelia Fletcher's letter to Spotify boss Daniel Ek about the streaming services plan for a two-tier royalty system, and the rickrolling takedown battle between two stream-ripping platforms…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

Lyrics can be used as evidence in Young Thug gang trial, judge rules

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Young Thug • 2 min read

Lyrics can be used as evidence in Young Thug gang trial, judge rules

The judge overseeing the criminal case involving Young Thug has ruled that the rapper’s lyrics can be used as evidence against him in his upcoming trial - the music industry has been calling for restrictions on an artist’s creative output being used in this way…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

Sarah Silverman lawsuit testing copyright obligations of Meta's LLaMA AI platform back in court

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Sarah Silverman • 2 min read

Sarah Silverman lawsuit testing copyright obligations of Meta's LLaMA AI platform back in court

A US judge gave some consideration this week to one of the legal cases that is testing the copyright obligations of AI companies - the lawsuit filed against Meta by three writers including comedian Sarah Silverman…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

Hipgnosis Song Management appoints new finance and legal chiefs

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Hipgnosis • 2 min read

Hipgnosis Song Management appoints new finance and legal chiefs

The Hipgnosis Song Management company has hired a new Legal Counsel and CFO, with both new recruits moving over from BMG to join their former colleague and now HSM COO Ben Katovsky…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

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Amazon • 1 min read

Amazon cuts jobs in its music division

Amazon has instigated some more redundancies, this time specifically in its music division - affected employees were told about the cutbacks on Wednesday…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

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Canva • 1 min read

Canva launches music library product

Canva yesterday announced that users of the graphic design platform can now easily insert music into their content from a large catalogue of tracks - it follows deals earlier this year with Warner and Merlin…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2023

LA Reid sued by former Arista A&R over allegations of sexual assault

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LA Reid • 2 min read

LA Reid sued by former Arista A&R over allegations of sexual assault

Record industry veteran LA Reid has been sued by a former colleague at Arista Records who claims he sexually assaulted and harassed her when she was working in A&R at the label in the early 2000s…

Chris Cooke • 09 Nov 2023

Hipgnosis Songs Fund headhunts the former Chair of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund to head up its board

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Hipgnosis • 2 min read

Hipgnosis Songs Fund headhunts the former Chair of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund to head up its board

The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has appointed former head of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund, Robert Naylor, as its new Chair. This comes after investors declined to reappoint Andrew Sutch to that role following the recent continuation vote…

Chris Cooke • 08 Nov 2023

Travis Scott and Live Nation sued by Astroworld business partner

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Astroworld • 2 min read

Travis Scott and Live Nation sued by Astroworld business partner

Travis Scott and Live Nation have been sued by the Sony-allied Ceremony Of Roses, which ran the amusements at the ill-fated 2021 Astroworld festival…

Chris Cooke • 08 Nov 2023

Parliament's culture select committee to win Industry Champion prize at Artist & Manager Awards

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Artist & Manager Awards • 2 min read

Parliament's culture select committee to win Industry Champion prize at Artist & Manager Awards

The final winners for this year’s Artist & Manager Awards have been announced, and they include MPs on Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, who will be named Industry Champions…

Chris Cooke • 08 Nov 2023

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TikTok • 1 min read

TikTok to close Creator Fund

TikTok is closing the billion dollar Creator Fund it launched three years ago, stating that creators will instead be able to earn money from their content via the Creativity Program it began piloting earlier this year…

Chris Cooke • 08 Nov 2023