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Spotify pilots new tools so parents can control how their kids experience the app

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Spotify pilots new tools so parents can control how their kids experience the app

Spotify continues in its bid to be seen as a responsible platform protecting children that use its app. It is piloting new tools in three markets that allow parents to control managed accounts for their children within a family plan, so they can exclude certain content, artists and tracks…

Chris Cooke • 16 Sep 2024

NTIA urges “thorough review” of Martyn's Law as it’s introduced into Parliament

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NTIA urges “thorough review” of Martyn's Law as it’s introduced into Parliament

Martyn’s Law, which sets out new rules to ensure the public is “better protected from terrorism” when in venues, prompted by the 2017 attack on the Manchester Arena, was introduced in Parliament yesterday. The NTIA supports the objectives but says “feasibility and fairness” must also be considered…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

BMI takes royalty rate dispute with Sirius XM to rate court

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BMI takes royalty rate dispute with Sirius XM to rate court

BMI is taking Sirius XM to the rate court, having failed to agree what royalty rates the satellite broadcaster should pay for use of the collecting society’s repertoire. The National Music Publishers Association has welcomed the move, saying it hopes the action will lessen the ‘digital radio divide’…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

Congress members ask Copyright Office to review collective licensing in the US

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Congress members ask Copyright Office to review collective licensing in the US

Concerns about the organisations that license performing rights in songs in the US - BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR and AllTrack - have been raised by a committee in Congress. They want the Copyright Office to review how those organisations distribute money they receive - and why there are now five of them…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

PopArabia's rights agency announces licensing deal with Anghami

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PopArabia's rights agency announces licensing deal with Anghami

Anghami, the MENA focused streaming service, has agreed a licensing deal with ESMAA, the rights management entity owned by PopArabia. It brings to an end a legal dispute between PopArabia and Anghami, and also includes rights from a number of other independent music publishers…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

Legal dispute over talk-box vocals in Dua Lipa hit allowed to proceed

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Legal dispute over talk-box vocals in Dua Lipa hit allowed to proceed

Dua Lipa has failed to get one of the lawsuits filed over ‘Levitating’ dismissed. Bosko Kante says he provided talk box vocals for that hit, but they also featured on remixes without his permission. Lipa tried to get the case dismissed, but a judge has rejected her arguments for dismissal…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

Danity Kane member the latest to accuse Diddy of sexual harassment and assault

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Danity Kane member the latest to accuse Diddy of sexual harassment and assault

Danity Kane member Dawn Richard is the latest person to sue Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs over allegations of sexual abuse. She also claims to have witnessed Combs abusing and assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs’ lawyer says Richard has “manufactured a series of false claims” to secure a payday…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

Live Nation boss insists concerts are “incredibly affordable”, especially when compared to sport

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Live Nation boss insists concerts are “incredibly affordable”, especially when compared to sport

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was interviewed at a Goldman Sachs conference earlier this week. With the fallout from the Oasis shows in the UK, it was interesting to see what he had to say about ticket prices. Live music is “incredibly affordable”, he argued, especially when compared to sport…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

Johnson & Johnson sued over “rampant infringement” of tracks from APM production music library

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Johnson & Johnson sued over “rampant infringement” of tracks from APM production music library

Quite a few brands have now been sued for using hit records in their social media posts without getting a music licence. Now production music companies are getting in on that action. APM has sued Johnson & Johnson for using music from its libraries in social media videos without getting permission…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

Kobalt confident it will get out of paying Spotify’s legal bills in Eminem dispute on appeal

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Kobalt confident it will get out of paying Spotify’s legal bills in Eminem dispute on appeal

Last month Kobalt was told to pay Spotify’s legal bills in relation to the big copyright battle between the streaming service and Eminem’s publisher. Last week the judge declined to reconsider that ruling but cleared the way for Kobalt to formally appeal. It has now confirmed it is doing just that…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

BBC Chair says neither subscriptions nor ads would work as future funding models

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BBC Chair says neither subscriptions nor ads would work as future funding models

How the BBC should be funded in the future was discussed in the House Of Lords yesterday. There has been much speculation over the years that a subscription model might eventually replace the current licence fee funding system. But BBC Chair Samir Shah told the Lords that wouldn’t work…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

NO FAKES Act is a “blunt solution” that “goes too far” say tech companies

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NO FAKES Act is a “blunt solution” that “goes too far” say tech companies

The NO FAKES Act in the US - seen by many in the music industry as a break-through legislative safe-guard against the threat of AI - is actually a bit rubbish. At least that’s what a group of signatories to a new letter say, adding that the new legislation could have unintended consequences…

Chris Cooke • 10 Sep 2024