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Setlist Podcast: Arena ticket levy by September, MPs demand

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Setlist • 4 min read

Setlist Podcast: Arena ticket levy by September, MPs demand

The warning from MPs to the UK government that there is an urgent need to support grassroots music venues, calls for SXSW London to shift its planned June 2025 date, and more…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 11 May 2024

Music Venue Properties announces purchase of The Ferret in Preston

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Music Venue Properties • 2 min read

Music Venue Properties announces purchase of The Ferret in Preston

A second venue has been acquired by Music Venue Properties, the charitable community benefit society set up as part of Music Venue Trust’s Own Our Venues initiative. It means The Ferret in Preston will now have a landlord that exists to support local grassroots music communities…

Chris Cooke • 10 May 2024

TikTok to expand labelling of AI content to videos created on third party platforms

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TikTok • 2 min read

TikTok to expand labelling of AI content to videos created on third party platforms

TikTok will start labelling AI-generated content created on third party platforms and uploaded to its app. This expanded commitment to AI transparency responds to demands from copyright owners and lawmakers, and is enabled by its membership of the Coalition For Content Provenance And Authenticity…

Chris Cooke • 10 May 2024

Supreme Court ruling could boost damages payments in US lawsuits over historical copyright infringement

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Flo Rida • 3 min read

Supreme Court ruling could boost damages payments in US lawsuits over historical copyright infringement

The US Supreme Court yesterday answered a question about damages in copyright cases that was posed in a dispute over a Flo Rida sample. However, it didn’t answer a related question about a thing called the ‘discovery rule’, even though that answer could have resulted in the Flo Rida claim being void…

Chris Cooke • 10 May 2024

⏩ One Liners: Billie Eilish, Spotify, Lil Durk + more

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

⏩ One Liners: Billie Eilish, Spotify, Lil Durk + more

Lil Durk relaunches OTF; BMG, MVT, Frontiers, Pulse Music, See Tickets appointments; Spotify stats; Linkin Park tribute show; The Waeve London gig; Billie Eilish “immersive” album paybacks; new music from Coheed And Cambria, Moonchild Sanelly, Erland Cooper, Flohio, O., Kučka, Martha Skye Murphy…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 09 May 2024

Minnesota passes new laws regulating secondary ticketing

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Secondary Ticketing • 2 min read

Minnesota passes new laws regulating secondary ticketing

While there has been lots of talk about new ticketing regulations in US Congress, more progress is being made at a state level. Minnesota has passed new laws regulating secondary ticketing this week, with Maryland also set to introduce new resale rules…

Chris Cooke • 09 May 2024

Nine of the ten wrongful death Astroworld lawsuits now settled, says Live Nation

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Astroworld • 2 min read

Nine of the ten wrongful death Astroworld lawsuits now settled, says Live Nation

Live Nation yesterday told a court in Houston that nine of the ten wrongful death lawsuits filed after the Astroworld tragedy have now been settled, including the one that was originally due to get to trial this week. A trial date for the one remaining case is yet to be set…

Chris Cooke • 09 May 2024

Music services hit out at Apple’s plan to comply with EU in-app linking decision, call on European Commission to act

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Apple • 3 min read

Music services hit out at Apple’s plan to comply with EU in-app linking decision, call on European Commission to act

Apple is having to change its anti-steering provision, which previously stopped app developers from sign-posting alternative payment options, in both the EU and US. But the way it is making that change has been criticised, both in a letter to the European Commission and a court hearing in California…

Chris Cooke • 09 May 2024

TikTok sues the US government over sell-or-be-banned law

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TikTok • 4 min read

TikTok sues the US government over sell-or-be-banned law

TikTok has filed its lawsuit to try to block the sell-or-be-banned law that was recently passed by US Congress. It insists that it is not practical for China-based owner ByteDance to sell TikTok, even just within the US, meaning the new law is a ban. And that ban, it argues, is unconstitutional…

Chris Cooke • 08 May 2024

⏩ One Liners: Travis Scott, BRIT School, Blur + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 4 min read

⏩ One Liners: Travis Scott, BRIT School, Blur + more

BRIT School, Rough Trade, Marshall deals; Restore The Music ambassador; Astroworld trial; Pomitni joins IMPALA; Generator x MMF; Gabb Music+; ARIAS winners; HOME co-working; Amy Winehouse BRIT Billion; Travis Scott UK shows; Blur documentary; new music from Hinds, Koreless, Kokoko!, Keeley Forsyth…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 08 May 2024

OfCom should use Online Safety Act powers to force Facebook to act on ticket scams, says Which?

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Facebook • 2 min read

OfCom should use Online Safety Act powers to force Facebook to act on ticket scams, says Which?

Which? says that OfCom should take action against social media platforms that fail to deal with ticketing scam posts as it implements the new UK Online Safety Act. The consumer rights group was responding to a BBC report about the sale of fake Taylor Swift tickets via hacked Facebook accounts…

Chris Cooke • 08 May 2024

Viagogo ruling in New Zealand demonstrates the need for tighter touting regulation, say campaigners

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Viagogo • 3 min read

Viagogo ruling in New Zealand demonstrates the need for tighter touting regulation, say campaigners

Last week it was confirmed that the high court in New Zealand has ruled against Viagogo following an eight year investigation by the country’s Commerce Commission. Anti-touting campaigners in Europe have welcomed the ruling, but say it demonstrates why better regulation of ticket resale is required…

Chris Cooke • 08 May 2024