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American musicians' union begins talks over AI and streaming with the Hollywood studios

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AFM • 2 min read

American musicians' union begins talks over AI and streaming with the Hollywood studios

Negotiations are underway in Hollywood over the union contracts of musicians who make music for films and TV programmes, with commitments around AI and new payments from streamed shows among the priorities of the American Federation Of Musicians…

Chris Cooke • 23 Jan 2024

Anthropic expands on its fair use defence in music publisher legal battle

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Anthropic • 2 min read

Anthropic expands on its fair use defence in music publisher legal battle

Anthropic has asked a court in Tennessee to reject a preliminary injunction request from a group of music publishers that accuse the AI company of copyright infringement. Anthropic insists there is no need for the court to intervene because training AI models with existing content is fair use…

Chris Cooke • 22 Jan 2024

Spotify won’t be launching on Vision Pro and lots of people are surprised - but why would it?

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Spotify won’t be launching on Vision Pro and lots of people are surprised - but why would it?

Some people are relieved that Spotify won’t be wasting money trying to force a square peg into a round hole with an early Visio Pro app - while other people are outraged that an audio company won’t be launching on a primarily visual platform. There’s no helping some folk.…

Chris Cooke • 22 Jan 2024

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Notorious BIG estate settles publicity rights case over skateboards and shower curtains

A publicity rights lawsuit filed by the Notorious BIG estate has been settled. Photographer Chi Modu was accused of infringing the late rapper’s rights by licensing photos he had taken for use on merchandise products…

Chris Cooke • 22 Jan 2024

Setlist Podcast: The new certification for “respectful” AI companies

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AI • 4 min read

Setlist Podcast: The new certification for “respectful” AI companies

Former Stability AI exec launches certification for AI companies that license copyrighted content before using it to train their models, redundancies at Pitchfork, and more…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 19 Jan 2024

Spotify hits out at Apple's "outrageous" new App Store rules

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Spotify hits out at Apple's "outrageous" new App Store rules

Spotify has joined Fortnite maker Epic in criticising Apple over a change to its rules around in-app payments. The change, made to comply with a court order secured by Epic, is meant to help app-makers, but Spotify says it has been implemented in a way that means app-makers are no better off…

Chris Cooke • 19 Jan 2024

Time really does go by so slowly: Madonna sued over slack time-keeping on ‘Celebration’ tour

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Time really does go by so slowly: Madonna sued over slack time-keeping on ‘Celebration’ tour

Madonna - and some other folk - are being sued because some of her shows started really really late. Two fans have gone legal arguing that the late start was a breach of contract.…

Chris Cooke • 19 Jan 2024

Michael Jackson tribute show promoter goes legal over trademark dispute

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Michael Jackson tribute show promoter goes legal over trademark dispute

A dispute between the Michael Jackson estate and the promoter of Las Vegas tribute show ‘MJ Live’ has gone legal - the estate argues its trademarks and Jackson’s publicity rights are being infringed, but the ‘MJ Live’ promoter wants a court to confirm that is not the case…

Chris Cooke • 19 Jan 2024

Former Stability exec Ed Newton Rex launches Fairly Trained AI certification

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Former Stability exec Ed Newton Rex launches Fairly Trained AI certification

A new initiative to certify generative AI companies that train their models on licensed content has launched. Called Fairly Trained, it has been founded by ex-Stability AI exec Ed Newton-Rex, who stepped down last year in protest at its standpoint on the need to gain licences from content owners…

Chris Cooke • 18 Jan 2024

Job cuts at Pitchfork as its team is merged in with GQ

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Job cuts at Pitchfork as its team is merged in with GQ

Redundancies were announced at Pitchfork yesterday as its team was merged with that of men’s magazine GQ by owner of both titles Condé Nast. The move was heralded by management as “the best path forward for the brand”, although unions said that staff were being “treated like disposable parts”…

Chris Cooke • 18 Jan 2024

Ticket touts on trial over £6.5 million "dishonest enterprise"

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Ticket touts on trial over £6.5 million "dishonest enterprise"

Two people have gone on trial in Leeds over their involvement in a £6.5 million ticket resale operation set up to "simply rinse consumers for as much profit as they are willing to pay". Two other defendants last week pleaded guilty as proceedings began…

Chris Cooke • 18 Jan 2024

Apple changes App Store rules following Supreme Court announcement, but Epic vows more legal action

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Apple changes App Store rules following Supreme Court announcement, but Epic vows more legal action

The US Supreme Court has declined to consider Epic’s litigation over Apple’s App Store rules - as a result Apple has changed those rules to comply with an order from the Californian courts, although Epic says the changes have been made in “bad faith” and it will take further legal action…

Chris Cooke • 17 Jan 2024