CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
From Blood Orange and Mac DeMarco’s gentle returns to a club-wrecker from Skepta and Fred again.., here are the releases that stood out to us last week.…
Artificial Intelligence
EU AI Act
European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA)
International Artist Organisation
Henna Virkkunen
Glenn MIcallef
Music industry legal news coverage
EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter
“Money, power and influence” enabled Diddy’s criminal enterprise but “that stops now”, prosecutor tells jury
Summing up began in the Diddy trial yesterday, with the prosecution setting out for a final time why the jury should find the musician guilty of racketeering. Diddy relied on his music business and an inner circle of employees to commit at least eight different kinds of crime, the jury was told…
Kneecap respond to “dead Tory” and flag incidents ahead of Glastonbury performance, as TRNSMT boss says he’s “frustrated” the band had to be axed from his event
Kneecap have spoken to The Guardian about all their recent controversies ahead of tomorrow’s performance at Glastonbury, insisting critics have deliberately taken videos of past gigs out of context. Meanwhile the boss of TRNSMT has discussed why the band was axed from his festival’s line-up…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Sam White
This week, we caught up with Sam White - Day-To-Day Manager at SB3 Artist Management, where he works across the careers of Katie Melua, The Boxer Rebellion and songwriter Nathan Nicholson.…
First Anthropic, now Meta: another judge accepts fair use defence in AI training - but there’s a sting
When it was sued by a group of authors for using their books in AI training without permission, Meta used the fair use defence. A judge has accepted that defence but says that in many cases AI training probably isn’t fair use and he provides some arguments rightsholders could employ in similar cases…
European regulators won’t fall for UMG’s tricks a second time says IMPALA boss
In an op-ed published yesterday, IMPALA’s Helen Smith spells out why she believes European regulators will give an “outright no” to Universal’s Downtown deal. Having already taken regulatory action against Universal once before in 2012, the EC is unlikely to give the major a second bite of the cake…
Azealia Banks ditches Boomtown over ‘Fuck Palestine’ track
Azealia Banks has pulled out of the Boomtown and Maiden Voyage festivals claiming promoters were pressuring her to express public support for Palestine. Although they were actually asking her to walk back previous social media posts that said “fuck Palestine”. Legal action may now follow…
🎧 Approved: For Nina
For Nina aren’t in the business of big statements. Not yet, anyway. But their new single ‘Swallow’ (released today) doesn’t ask for your attention so much as quietly consume it. Think Slowdive, but with an Irish lilt…
First major ruling on AI and fair use goes against the copyright industries, though with a silver lining relating to pirated training content
A judge has ruled in a legal battle between a group of authors and Anthropic concluding that AI training is fair use under US copyright law. It’s a big win for Anthropic and AI firms generally, although the judge criticised Anthropic’s use of pirated content, which is likely copyright infringement…
Live Nation has “enormous grip” on festival market but indies entertain more festival-goers, says new report
The Association Of Independent Festivals has published a report mapping the UK festival market. It highlights Live Nation’s dominant position, owning three of the four major festivals. However, independently owned events account for the majority of the combined capacity of the UK festival sector…
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