📑 CMU Digest: Hipgnosis tensions escalate; Apple's "outrageous" payment changes + more
Hipgnosis tensions; Apple payment changes; Pitchfork folded into GQ; fair training for fair AI; CMM's memo to major label staffers…
Setlist Podcast: The new certification for “respectful” AI companies
Former Stability AI exec launches certification for AI companies that license copyrighted content before using it to train their models, redundancies at Pitchfork, and more…
Hipgnosis war of words ramps up with Extraordinary General Meeting proposal for £20 million "bung"
Stand off between Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management continues with new board calling for EGM and offering £20 million to anyone who might want to buy the company…
⏩ One Liners: Aurora, Gossip, BRIT Awards + more
New Sony Music exec; Steve Lamacq launches new podcast; Felt’s Lawrence to display marble bust of his own head; Chai split; BRIT Awards nominations livestream; Skepta’s Big Smoke line-up; Karol G UK show; new music from Aurora, Gossip, Norah Jones, Nia Archives, Rachel Chinoiuriri, and Jlin…
Spotify hits out at Apple's "outrageous" new App Store rules
Spotify has joined Fortnite maker Epic in criticising Apple over a change to its rules around in-app payments. The change, made to comply with a court order secured by Epic, is meant to help app-makers, but Spotify says it has been implemented in a way that means app-makers are no better off…
MLC planning massive audit of all streaming services - but it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. Yet.
The MLC in the US has announced it will audit streaming services, including those run by Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube - the collecting society has the right to undertake audits under the compulsory licence it administers…
Time really does go by so slowly: Madonna sued over slack time-keeping on ‘Celebration’ tour
Madonna - and some other folk - are being sued because some of her shows started really really late. Two fans have gone legal arguing that the late start was a breach of contract.…
And Finally: CEO loses job as Snoop Dogg viral campaign backfires, plus more of the week’s funniest music news
The CEO of Solo Brand found himself out of a job this week, after he hired Snoop Dogg to front an ad campaign and it didn’t result in increased sales. Until now, it was thought that Snoop Dogg could literally sell anything, but in smokeless fire pits we have found his achilles heel…
Michael Jackson tribute show promoter goes legal over trademark dispute
A dispute between the Michael Jackson estate and the promoter of Las Vegas tribute show ‘MJ Live’ has gone legal - the estate argues its trademarks and Jackson’s publicity rights are being infringed, but the ‘MJ Live’ promoter wants a court to confirm that is not the case…
⏩ One Liners: Tim Burgess, European Festival Awards, Southbank Centre + more
Rimas x Reprtoir; Warner Chappell promotes Augustin; Ex-Hipgnosis exec launches ALLOY; BPI Insight Session; Southbank Centre free gigs; King Creosote coastal tour; European Festival Awards winners; MOBO hosts; new releases from Tim Burgess, Villagers, Shiygirl, Allie X, Tusks and Odetta Hartman…
Approved: Mal Not Bad
Mal Not Bad returns with their first single of 2024, ‘Dodgeball’. Following on from last year’s ‘AP’, it gives another taste of their next EP, due later this year, and their first since 2022’s ‘Continuous Short Film Feature’…
Former Stability exec Ed Newton Rex launches Fairly Trained AI certification
A new initiative to certify generative AI companies that train their models on licensed content has launched. Called Fairly Trained, it has been founded by ex-Stability AI exec Ed Newton-Rex, who stepped down last year in protest at its standpoint on the need to gain licences from content owners…
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