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Chris Cooke

Chris Cooke

1741 posts •
Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump public
Artificial Intelligence • 3 min read

Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump

Donald Trump yesterday launched his much anticipated ‘AI Action Plan’. It doesn’t say anything about the copyright obligations of AI companies. But during a rambling speech launching the plan, the President said that having AI companies get licences from copyright owners is just “not doable”…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
UK regulator sets roadmap for reviewing app store payment rules public
Apple • 3 min read

UK regulator sets roadmap for reviewing app store payment rules

Last year the UK’s competition regulator closed an investigation into the Apple App Store rules that Spotify hates, but only so it could figure out how to use new powers it had been granted by Parliament. Now it’s done that, it’s proposed a roadmap for reviewing the hated rules, starting this autumn…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Warner appoints new ADA boss public
Warner Music • 2 min read

Warner appoints new ADA boss

Warner Music’s distribution division ADA has a new boss, Alejandro Duque, who will do the job as well as being President of the major’s Latin America business. The change in ADA leadership comes as Warner looks to cut its costs by $300 million a year…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Music industry pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne public
Ozzy Osbourne • 3 min read

Music industry pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

Artists, musicians and music companies have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne following the announcement of his death yesterday. Among them Sony Music, which released Osbourne’s solo records, and Warner Music, which handled the US releases of all the early Black Sabbath albums…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Songwriters to get per diems as part of creator remuneration package, though creator orgs say “much more still needs to be done” public
Creator Remuneration Working Group • 5 min read

Songwriters to get per diems as part of creator remuneration package, though creator orgs say “much more still needs to be done”

UK minister Chris Bryant has announced a set of principles on creator remuneration agreed with record labels, plus two new initiatives including per diems for songwriters. However, music creator groups say “much more still needs to be done” to address issues around how streaming money is shared…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Universal disputes Salt N Pepa’s termination rights claim - says the rappers never transferred any recording rights to their label public
Universal Music • 3 min read

Universal disputes Salt N Pepa’s termination rights claim - says the rappers never transferred any recording rights to their label

Earlier this year Salt N Pepa sued UMG claiming that the major was refusing to allow them to reclaim the rights in their 1980s recordings, even though copyright law allows them to terminate any transfer of rights after 35 years. The major now says there was never any transfer of rights to terminate…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Are we about to see an epic alt-rock soap opera as Jane’s Addiction slug out their differences in the courts? Here’s hoping… public
Jane’s Addiction • 4 min read

Are we about to see an epic alt-rock soap opera as Jane’s Addiction slug out their differences in the courts? Here’s hoping…

Last year the much anticipated tour reuniting the classic line-up of Jane’s Addiction was cut short - and plans for a new album dropped - after an on-stage bust-up between members Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro. Now both Farrell and his ex-bandmates have filed lawsuits over the whole sorry saga…
Chris Cooke
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