🌅 Horizon Leaders - Katerina Koumourou
This week we caught up with Katerina Koumourou, music publicist and founder of Twelfth House.…
StubHub claiming to be a fan-to-fan marketplace while its head honcho finances professional super touts is fraudulent concealment, says class action lawsuit
Last week it was revealed that StubHub CEO Eric Baker is also MD of a company that is directly involved in touting tickets, a revelation that could hinder the company’s ongoing lobbying efforts in the US and beyond. It has also prompted a class action lawsuit filed by a ticket buyer…
🎧 Approved: Dani Offline
Dani Offline makes some of the warmest, most carefully constructed soul music you’ll hear right now. New single ‘weary soul’ is warm, retrofuturist and genuinely affecting…
Warner Music insists ‘new use’ clause in union agreement doesn’t mean musicians are due a share of AI money
Warner Music has responded to a lawsuit filed by US musicians union AFM over its AI deals. The union says a ‘new use’ clause in its performer agreement means its members should get compensation from the deals with Suno and Udio - but Warner says AFM is interpreting that clause incorrectly…
UK government publishes ‘Our Plan For Music’ - and announces new funding and licensing reforms
The UK government has published a plan for how it will support music and the music industry. It’s mainly a greatest hits of existing government schemes and initiatives all collated in one place, though there are some new announcements, including an extra £15 million for the Music Growth Package…
Music community calls on Irish government to use EU presidency to lead the conversation around creator rights and AI
The Irish parliament will tomorrow debate a motion calling on the country’s government to use its current presidency of the Council Of The EU to address creator concerns in the context of AI. The motion has been proposed by Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh and is backed by music creator groups…
US industry groups raise “serious concerns” about EU royalty flow proposals, which many of their European counterparts support
This week various American music industry groups called on the US government to formally oppose proposals made by the European Commission regarding the flow of broadcast and performance royalties from EU countries to the US. However, many European music companies actually support those proposals…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Kelela, Jack White, Gilla Band, Finn Wolfhard + Rebecca Black…
iHeart ramps up anti-payola policies under pressure from the FCC
iHeartMedia has agreed a deal with US media regulator the FCC to ramp up its payola policies in relation to live events. The FCC last year put the spotlight on allegations some radio stations were getting artists to play their events for free in return for airplay, which it said constitutes payola…
Kneecap allowed to file defamation lawsuit in Ireland against Indigenous leader in Canada over antisemitism claims
Last year nine Indigenous leaders in Canada said Kneecap had “outwardly supported antisemitism” and therefore their shows in Toronto and Vancouver should be cancelled. The band are now suing one of those Indigenous leaders, Harvey Yesno, for defamation and Dublin’s high court has accepted the case…
🎧 Approved: Moses Boyd
Moses Boyd is back after five years away and ‘Say Yeah’ was worth the wait - gospel-rooted, dancefloor-ready jazz with a London accent and a hook so simple it works in any language. A video made with Woolwich Creative Club has exactly the communal feel the song is about…
Bulgaria’s copyright regime is broken because it didn’t properly implement EU rules that justify web-blocking, say labels
Bulgarian labels recently failed to secure anti-piracy web-blocks because the country’s lawmakers never implemented EU rules that justify such a thing. Trade group BAMP has now urged EU officials to ensure member states are complying with existing copyright rules before introducing any new ones…
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