public
New guide published to inform music city policy making
A new guide was formally launched at last week’s Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg putting the spotlight on how to develop effective music city policies…
Chris Cooke
1949 posts
•
public
members
Setlist Podcast: Musicians and songwriters draw AI red lines
CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the call for "consent, respect and remuneration" to be central to the development of music AI platforms and tools, and the RIAA’s latest stats on US recorded music revenues…
public
CMU Digest: Leadmill, Lizzo, Deezer, Council Of Music Makers, Katy Perry
24 Sep 2023: Catch up on key events this week, including Sheffield City Council granting a licence to The Leadmill's landlord, the Council Of Music Makers' five AI fundamentals, Lizzo being sued by another ex-employee, Deezer instigating another price rise and Katy Perry’s big deal with Litmus…
public
Lizzo faces second lawsuit from former employee
A second lawsuit has been filed against Lizzo by a former employee who says that she endured racial and sexual harassment, assault and illegal retaliatory termination while working on the musician’s recent tour…
public
Deezer instigates second price rise in key European markets
Deezer has instigated another price increase in some key European markets, so that a €10.99 subscription becomes €11.99…
public
Abbey Road Studios' photography awards presented
The winners have been announced for this year’s Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards, with organisers confirming that there was a 480% increase in entries this time around…
public
Zayn Malik accused of ripping off earlier track to make his song Better
Zayn Malik has been accused of song theft, with another artist claiming that 2020’s ‘Better’ ripped off an earlier song, which the one time 1Der may have had access to via a marketing agency…
public
BPI boss responds to the five AI fundamentals published by the Council Of Music Makers
The boss of record label trade group BPI has responded to the five AI fundamentals published yesterday by the UK’s Council Of Music Makers…
public
Meta says AI training is fair use in response to author lawsuit over LLaMA
Meta has responded to a copyright lawsuit filed by Sarah Silverman and two other writers insisting that its training of generative AI model LLaMA with existing copyright-protected works is ‘fair use’…
public
Adidas boss on Kanye: "I don’t think he meant what he said"
Adidas boss Bjørn Gulden has discussed the collapse of his company’s Yeezy partnership with Kanye West following the rapper’s anti-Semitic statements…
public
One Liners: BTS, Troye Sivan, Duran Duran, Emeli Sandé + more
BTS renew BigHit deal; FreshTracks appointments; New releases from Troye Sivan, Duran Duran, Emeli Sandé, Bleachers, Sleaford Mods, HAAi, Black Grape, Helmet, Chai, Chelsea Wolfe, Hilary Woods, Emma Anderson, and Rachael Lavelle; Live dates from Poppy; Debby Friday wins Polaris Music Prize…
public
Virgin Music partners with Position Music
Universal Music’s label services division Virgin Music has announced a partnership with Californian label, publisher and management firm Position Music…