Sam Taylor

146 posts
Proper Group AG - the company formerly known as Utopia - is riddled with debt and has left its few remaining staff high and dry with salaries unpaid for months public
Utopia Music 5 min read

Proper Group AG - the company formerly known as Utopia - is riddled with debt and has left its few remaining staff high and dry with salaries unpaid for months

Put into bankruptcy by the Swiss courts, riddled with debt, the proceeds of the Sentric sale still locked in escrow, another UK company in liquidation, and its few remaining staff left in the lurch yet again as they wait months for salaries… what’s really happening at Proper Group AG…
Sam Taylor
TikTok Music to close public
Bytedance 3 min read

TikTok Music to close

TikTok Music will close down at the end of November. The standalone music service launched last year as an evolution of Resso, the earlier music platform operated by TikTok owner Bytedance. TikTok says it now wants to focus on its Add To Music App feature…
Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor
Scottish First Minister says Creative Scotland budget cuts will not go ahead, promising to “support Scotland’s culture sector and creative industries” public
Creative Scotland 3 min read

Scottish First Minister says Creative Scotland budget cuts will not go ahead, promising to “support Scotland’s culture sector and creative industries”

Scotland’s music industry is breathing a sigh of relief after First Minister John Swinney confirmed that Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals will not have to close and that funding will be made available to allow the critical creative funding scheme to reopen…
Sam Taylor
New York District Attorney brings criminal charges against man accused of sophisticated streaming fraud that raked in more than $10 million public
Streaming Fraud 3 min read

New York District Attorney brings criminal charges against man accused of sophisticated streaming fraud that raked in more than $10 million

Prosecutors in the US have charged a man accused of running a streaming fraud scam that generated over $10 million. He got individuals abroad to set up “bot accounts” on the streaming platforms and then set those accounts streaming hundred of thousands of tracks that he created with an AI company…
Sam Taylor & Chris Cooke
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