CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from CMAT, Ray Laurél, Blood Orange, Geese and MPH…
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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
Court dismisses Dave Rowntree’s black box lawsuit against PRS
A UK court has dismissed a class action lawsuit filed by Blur drummer Dave Rowntree against PRS over the collecting society’s black box distribution rules. PRS raised various issues with Rowntree’s ‘collective competition proceedings’, with judges ultimately granting its bid to strike the action…
Sony’s merch division seeks court order banning sale of Benson Boone knock-offs
Benson Boone is on tour around the US and bootleggers are trying to sell knock off merch outside his shows. He works with Sony Music’s Ceremony Of Roses on his official merchandise, and it wants a court order banning the sale and ordering confiscation of all the knock offs…
Apple Music makes its radio stations available to everyone via radio streaming app TuneIn
Apple has announced a tie up with TuneIn which will see its six Apple Music Radio stations made available via the radio aggregator app. It seems to be part of a plan by Apple to better utilise the free radio services to sell subscriptions to Apple Music, which is lagging being main rival Spotify…
🎧 Approved: Clarice Jensen
On paper, a Juilliard-trained cellist opening for My Chemical Romance might look like a curveball. In reality, it makes perfect sense. Clarice Jensen’s new single, ‘Unity’, grows out of a symmetrical four-chord motif. It’s part tradition, part experiment and entirely her own language…
Just three years after overhauling its top team, Sony Australia faces fresh accusations of a toxic workplace culture
Sony Music has responded to a newspaper report about its Australian division, which said employees had complained about a toxic workplace under CEO Vanessa Picken, who was hired after a previous scandal about the division’s corporate culture. The major says “we take all concerns very seriously”…
Anthropic settles legal dispute with authors - in a deal that could be influential in other AI copyright disputes
A settlement between Anthropic and a group of US authors could prove influential in the big debate over copyright and AI. A judge ruled that Anthropic’s use of books in its AI training was fair use unless it had pirated those books. Which it had. Which is why the AI company is now keen to settle…
Brace yourself: Spotify is convinced people want it to be a messaging app
Spotify is adding messaging to its app, functionality it previously removed in 2017. It means users will be able to recommend tracks, podcasts and audiobooks to friends within the platform. Spotify says its users have been asking for this functionality and “our goal is to give users what they want”…
Universal calls for Salt N Pepa lawsuit to be thrown out yet again
The legal battle between Salt N Pepa and Universal Music over the US termination right continues. The rappers filed an amended lawsuit earlier this month as they try to reclaim ownership of their 1980s recordings. The major says their legal claims are still deficient and should be dismissed…
Another weekend of Gaza protests at music festivals plus Kneecap cancel US shows
Kneecap have announced that their October tour of the US is officially cancelled, following reports of visa issues. The announcement comes after another weekend of festival-related politics, with Kneecap’s set at Rock en Seine in France and events at the Victorious Festival in the UK…
🎧 Approved: Tebi Rex
After a decade of pulling Irish hip hop into stranger, sharper, funnier shapes, Irish alt-rap duo Tebi Rex are calling time. Two people met at a college talent show, made something that didn’t sound like anyone else around them and left a mark. ‘Fin.’ is the bow on top…
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