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SiriusXM breaches consumer rights by charging an extra music royalties extra fee, says lawsuit

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Sirius XM • 3 min read

SiriusXM breaches consumer rights by charging an extra music royalties extra fee, says lawsuit

SiriusXM charges its users in the US an extra Music Royalty fee - on top of the advertised price of its subscriptions - to cover payments to the music industry. But, says a new lawsuit, music royalties are a core expense for a music service and shouldn’t be paid for out of a mysterious add-on fee…

Chris Cooke • 25 Jun 2024

PRS sued over “unreasonable and unnecessary hurdles” for writers directly licensing their live performances

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PRS For Music • 4 min read

PRS sued over “unreasonable and unnecessary hurdles” for writers directly licensing their live performances

PRS has been sued for a second time by its members. Dave Rowntree previously went legal over the black box, and now Robert Fripp, the Jesus & Mary Chain and others have filed a lawsuit over the “unreasonable and unnecessary hurdles” writers must cross when direct licensing their live performances…

Chris Cooke • 25 Jun 2024

Apple’s amended app rules still don’t comply with Digital Markets Act, EU confirms

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Apple Music • 2 min read

Apple’s amended app rules still don’t comply with Digital Markets Act, EU confirms

Apple recently changed its rules around the sign-posting of alternative payment options within iOS apps in a bid to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Spotify, among others, say the changes are not good enough, and - in a newly published preliminary view - the European Commission agrees…

Chris Cooke • 25 Jun 2024

Suno boss accuses music industry of “reverting to its old lawyer-led playbook”

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Suno • 3 min read

Suno boss accuses music industry of “reverting to its old lawyer-led playbook”

The US record industry yesterday sued AI companies Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. Suno’s CEO says that the labels are just coming out guns blazing without first having a proper conversation. The RIAA says that labels are quite happy to do that with people who don’t first steal their stuff…

Chris Cooke • 25 Jun 2024

Suno and Udio’s “lawless” behaviour cheapens human creativity with sound-a-likes and knock-offs says watershed RIAA lawsuit

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AI • 6 min read

Suno and Udio’s “lawless” behaviour cheapens human creativity with sound-a-likes and knock-offs says watershed RIAA lawsuit

Suno and Udio are evasive about how they trained their AI models and have infringed copyright at “an almost unimaginable scale” says the RIAA. Music generated by the platform will flood the market with such speed and scale that the impact will be devastating for human creators…

Chris Cooke • 24 Jun 2024

Live Nation boss Michael Rapino sued by shareholder over DoJ action

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Live Nation • 2 min read

Live Nation boss Michael Rapino sued by shareholder over DoJ action

Last month the US Department Of Justice sued Live Nation accusing the live giant and its Ticketmaster subsidiary of anticompetitive conduct. Now an investor has sued members of company’s board claiming they “breached their fiduciary duties” by allowing the alleged anticompetitive conduct to occur…

Chris Cooke • 24 Jun 2024

Apple says EU rules will delay launch of Apple Intelligence in Europe

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Apple • 2 min read

Apple says EU rules will delay launch of Apple Intelligence in Europe

The roll out of Apple’s new generative AI tool Apple Intelligence could be delayed in Europe because of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. Apple says that three new features it unveiled earlier this month will be delayed in the EU because of interoperability requirements in the DMA…

Chris Cooke • 24 Jun 2024

Judge confirms Kneecap can take legal action against government

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Kneecap • 2 min read

Judge confirms Kneecap can take legal action against government

Kneecap have been granted leave to apply for a judicial review of the decision by UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch to block grant funding because of the group’s political output. That decision, says Kneecap’s lawyer, was an attack on freedom of expression and the Good Friday Agreement…

Chris Cooke • 21 Jun 2024

⏩ One Liners: Coldplay, Ariana Grande, Charli XCX + more

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⏩ One Liners: Coldplay, Ariana Grande, Charli XCX + more

Warner, Miley Cyrus, Verzuz deals; Bravado, F That appointments; major label AI lawsuits incoming; DEAG spins off hip hop division; Radio 1 Breakfast Show extended; Heart x Pride; new releases from Coldplay, Ariana Grande, Charli XCX, Headie One, Yungblud, Blackpink, Mura Masa, Griff, and more…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 21 Jun 2024

US TikTok ban is “an extraordinary speech restriction” that cannot be justified, says TikTok

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TikTok • 2 min read

US TikTok ban is “an extraordinary speech restriction” that cannot be justified, says TikTok

The clock is ticking down to the big US TikTok ban, which will go into effect next January if owner ByteDance fails to sell the app. However, TikTok and its creators hope to block the ban in the courts on free speech grounds and have now filed their opening briefs in that legal battle…

Chris Cooke • 21 Jun 2024

Performer remuneration should actually be paid to performers, confirms US appeals court

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El Gran Combo • 3 min read

Performer remuneration should actually be paid to performers, confirms US appeals court

A dispute involving Puerto Rican group El Gran Combo asked who should get the featured artist payments due from collecting society SoundExchange when a band is owned by a company and not the performers in that band. An appeals court has concluded the performers should get paid, not the company…

Chris Cooke • 21 Jun 2024

First Madonna slack time-keeping lawsuit dismissed

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Madonna • 2 min read

First Madonna slack time-keeping lawsuit dismissed

A lawsuit filed against Madonna over the late start times of her shows has been dismissed. The musician’s lawyer says no settlement has been reached and that the litigious concert-goers dismissed their “frivolous” lawsuit when they realised they were not going to get an quick pay-off from the star…

Chris Cooke • 20 Jun 2024