Approved: Rats-Tails
Dream-pop quartet Rats-Tails return with their first single of 2024 ‘Flowers’. The follow-up to last year’s ‘Coke In The 70s’, the song embraces self-discovery and embracing change following the end of a relationship…
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EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter
Gee Davy to take over as head of indie label trade body AIM as Silvia Montello exits
AIM has announced that Silvia Montello is leaving the organisation, a little over a year after joining. Newly promoted to Chief Policy Officer, Gee Davy will lead the organisation going forward, as the trade body indicates to CMU that it has no plans to recruit a new CEO in the foreseeable future…
Hollywood movie studios aim to put web-blocking back on the agenda in US Congress
Web-blocking is now the music industry’s anti-piracy tactic of choice in countries where it is available. However, web-blocking is still not an option in the US, where attempts to add it to copyright law in 2012 resulted in a major backlash. Hollywood thinks it is time for Congress to reconsider…
X responds to $250 million copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers
X last month got a copyright lawsuit filed by a group of music publishers cut back, although the core allegation of contributory infringement was allowed to proceed. With that in mind, X has now filed a formal response to the publishers' litigation…
Op-ed: Forget AI vocal clones - the real impact of AI in music is personalised discovery
AI is going to hyper-accelerate the shift to personalised discovery of music, by making the existing discovery algorithms of the various platforms much more sophisticated and much more customised to the tastes of individual listeners say Duetti CEO and co-founder Lior Tibon…
⏩ One Liners: Glastonbury, Benga, TF Entertainment + more
UMG x TF Entertainment; RoEx hires Jason Reed; Music Canada streaming report; King Street Sounds relaunches; Benga cancels US shows; Glastonbury ticket resale dates; Crux AV music festival; new music from Noga Erez, Girl Ultra, Camera Obscura, Lemon Twigs, Dea Matrona, HighSchool, Douglas Dare, O…
“Fundamental reform of music streaming” must come soon, say MPs
There must be “tangible steps to improve musicians’ remuneration and performer rights” in the next year, says a new report from MPs. Too many professional musicians are struggling to make ends meet says the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee…
WIN renews shared values of the independent music community
The World Independent Network has updated its Global Independent Values. First published in 2012, these are the ten key principles shared by the international trade body’s members. They have been renewed following a period of consultation with music organisations globally…
Transparency obligation for AI companies proposed in US Congress
Organisations from across the music industry have welcomed proposals introduced into US Congress that would force AI companies to declare what content they have used as part of the training of any one generative AI model. The proposals have been made by Democrat Adam Schiff…
⏩ One Liners: Apple, Glastonbury, Caribou + more
Bella Figura funding; Sony Music buys Neon Hum; MaMA appointments; Apple App Store rule change; Glastonbury resale; Dream Theater, Chilly Gonzales, Rise Against shows; new music from Caribou, Greg Saunier, Mandy Indiana, Girls In Synthesis…
Approved: NikNak
Set to release her fourth album ‘Ireti’ next month, NikNak is back with new single ‘12000RPM’, a genre-jumping track with a cinematic sound that aims to evoke a character “being chased by enforcers around the city, doing parkour through the rainy streets before an epic fight scene unfolds”…
GEMA says German song right income is booming, but digital growth is lacking
GEMA has published stats detailing song rights income in Germany in 2023. While it was a financially successful year, the collecting society says that digital growth was disappointing in the country, especially when compared to gains enjoyed by the record industry…
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