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Live Nation figures show a live music boom, yet crisis at the grassroots results in another UK festival cancellation

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Live Nation • 3 min read

Live Nation figures show a live music boom, yet crisis at the grassroots results in another UK festival cancellation

Live Nation published its year-end figures yesterday, with CEO Michael Rapino stating that “the live music industry reached new heights in 2023”. Yet the UK grassroots live sector is still in crisis, with another independent festival cancelling its 2024 edition…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2024

⏩ One Liners: Kilimanjaro Live, Central Cee, Lola Young + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 2 min read

⏩ One Liners: Kilimanjaro Live, Central Cee, Lola Young + more

Bauer Media and CALM appointments; Ivors Academy Songwriting camp; rejig at Kilimanjaro Live; new music from Central Cee, Lola Young, JD REID, James Vincent McMorrow, Bugzy Malone, Justin Timberlake and Frank Turner…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2024

Internet Archive’s crackle based ‘fair use’ defence in copyright case is perverted, say labels

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Internet Archive • 2 min read

Internet Archive’s crackle based ‘fair use’ defence in copyright case is perverted, say labels

The Internet Archive recently filed a motion to dismiss the copyright lawsuit filed against it by the record industry over its Great 78 Project. The record labels have now responded, with a fun debate over whether crackles in a recording makes copying it fair use on historical preservation grounds…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2024

Vice Media to cut hundreds of jobs and stop publishing on Vice.com

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Vice Media to cut hundreds of jobs and stop publishing on Vice.com

After filing for bankruptcy protection last year and being bought by its money lenders, Vice has now told staff that it will stop publishing content on its main website, moving to a studio model where it makes content for other media…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2024

Ticketmaster incentivised TQ Tickets' touting operation, says former employee in fraud trial

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Ticketmaster incentivised TQ Tickets' touting operation, says former employee in fraud trial

The fraud trial of former employees at ticket touting company TQ Tickets continues, with one defendant insisting that Ticketmaster knew about the firm’s operations, because they were using resale platforms then owned by the Live Nation ticketing company…

Chris Cooke • 23 Feb 2024

Man accused of £500,000 streaming fraud operation fighting criminal charges in Danish court

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Streaming Fraud • 2 min read

Man accused of £500,000 streaming fraud operation fighting criminal charges in Danish court

What is thought to be the first criminal trial over streaming fraud is set to reach court in Denmark. A man is accused of uploading copyright infringing tracks to streaming services and then using manipulation tools to boost their plays in order to pull £500,000 in royalty payments out of the system…

Chris Cooke • 22 Feb 2024

Jimmy Iovine and Universal-backed NTWRK buys Complex to capitalise on the superfan opportunity

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Jimmy Iovine and Universal-backed NTWRK buys Complex to capitalise on the superfan opportunity

Buzzfeed has sold youth culture media company Complex to NTWRK, which plans to build a digital hub that can capitalise on the superfan opportunity. Universal Music is a backer of NTWRK, and its Interscope Geffen A&M and Capital labels will be the first to utilise the combined NTWRK/Complex platform…

Chris Cooke • 22 Feb 2024

R Kelly victim’s $4 million judgement overturned on procedural grounds

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R Kelly • 2 min read

R Kelly victim’s $4 million judgement overturned on procedural grounds

A court ruling ordering R Kelly to pay $4 million in damages to a woman who accused him of sexual abuse has been overturned in Illinois. Appeal court judges said that procedural rules had not been properly followed when Kelly’s legal team stood down from the case…

Chris Cooke • 22 Feb 2024

Music industry’s billion dollar damages win in Cox case overturned

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Music industry’s billion dollar damages win in Cox case overturned

In 2019 the music industry won a billion dollars in damages in a copyright lawsuit against internet company Cox Communications - but that ruling has now been overturned on appeal, even though appeal judges confirmed that the ISP is liable for copyright infringement…

Chris Cooke • 21 Feb 2024

Viagogo to pay out £90,000 compensation in Swiss consumer rights settlement

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Viagogo to pay out £90,000 compensation in Swiss consumer rights settlement

After six years of legal work by Swiss consumer rights organisation FRC, Viagogo has committed to make changes to its website in the country and to pay compensation to 807 ticket buyers who formally complained about the secondary ticketing company…

Chris Cooke • 21 Feb 2024

Supertramp in court over song royalties dispute

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Supertramp in court over song royalties dispute

Four former members are in court in a dispute over a 1977 agreement outlining royalty splits between them. Co-founder Roger Hodgson says that the deal that gave Dougie Thomson, John Helliwell and Bob Siebenberg a share of songwriting royalties was never supposed to be permanent…

Chris Cooke • 21 Feb 2024

New study says web-blocking drives people from piracy to legit sites

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New study says web-blocking drives people from piracy to legit sites

A new study suggests that the web-blocking of piracy sites does result in more consumers accessing licensed content services, though it also drives more users to unblocked piracy platforms. The music industry is keen for web-blocks to be available in more countries…

Chris Cooke • 20 Feb 2024