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Live Nation boss dismissive of streaming platforms’ superfan ambitions as company reports record year

Spotify wants to be “the best in the world at building AI products” and is focused on “accelerated execution”... but still no super-premium launch

Judge throws out MLC’s audiobooks bundle lawsuit, says Spotify can keep cutting songwriter royalties through its “cynical trick”

Universal Music’s new Spotify deal could be a knock-out blow for streaming platform’s audiobook bundling trick

Universal put “corporate greed” before Drake’s safety, says defamation lawsuit filed over Kendrick Lamar diss track

Beware the “wolf under the cape” in Universal’s Downtown land grab, warns Beggars boss as IMPALA calls for regulators to block the deal

EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter

AI generated music will suck €4 billion a year away from music creators by 2028 says CISAC

Village People founder loves Trump using YMCA, but hates people calling it a gay anthem

Executives from BMG, Absolute Label Services, Mahogany Music, Punch Records and more to join award winning female entrepreneurs in Liverpool as first Sound City+ 2025 speakers unveiled

AIF makes desperate call for government to “step up, and step up now” to get festivals through “devastating period”, as MVT launches new Liveline fund

New AI transparency proposal in US Congress will “pave the way” for creator compensation says ASCAP boss

SXSW ditches weapons sponsors to burnish brand - so why won’t it ditch its ties to Saudi Arabia?

SXSW London could disrupt delicately balanced music ecosystem and should reconsider its date

One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 9 min read

⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Secretly, Beggars and Cargo ally on distribution, APM sue American Hockey League over social media posts, Coldplay support MVT + more

Today: Cargo Independent Distribution, Circa, Prescription Songs, Faith Sounds, MPLFIY, Dirty Hit, Co-op Live, Miley Cyrus, APM, Guvera, Coldplay, Motel 8, Jane’s Addiction, The Postal Service, Kanye West + more…

CMU • 17 Sep 2024

Releases & Tours • 2 min read

⏩ Releases & Tours News Monday 16 Sep

Arca, Playboi Carti, Lamb Of God, brent, Special Interest, Troye Sivan, Jack White, Doechii, Ben Howard + more…

CMU • 16 Sep 2024

Donald Trump • 3 min read

Trump campaign guilty of copyright infringement in Eddy Grant lawsuit

Eddy Grant has succeeded in his copyright lawsuit against Donald Trump, in doing so demonstrating that using music in political campaign videos does not qualify as fair use, so a licence must be secured. Trump posted a video using ‘Electric Avenue’ during the 2020 US presidential election campaign…

Chris Cooke • 16 Sep 2024

AI • 3 min read

New generative AI remuneration right for creators proposed

IP expert Daniel Gervais has proposed reforming copyright law to add a new remuneration right for creators whose work is used to train generative AI models. He says it would strange for copyright law to not evolve in the context of the most “consequential technological change in history”…

Chris Cooke • 16 Sep 2024

CMU Digest • 7 min read

📑 CMU Digest: Live Nation boss says concerts are affordable + The White Stripes sue Trump

CMU Digest is our weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories from the last seven days.…

CMU • 16 Sep 2024

Spotify • 2 min read

Spotify pilots new tools so parents can control how their kids experience the app

Spotify continues in its bid to be seen as a responsible platform protecting children that use its app. It is piloting new tools in three markets that allow parents to control managed accounts for their children within a family plan, so they can exclude certain content, artists and tracks…

Chris Cooke • 16 Sep 2024

One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 9 min read

⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Former BMG execs launch umn, Catalog announced at AIM Connected, Ticketmaster exec sentenced in CrowdSurge case + more

Today: umn, Downtown Music Publishing, Too Young, Catalog, Campbell Connelly, Wise Music Group, K Digital Media Korea, MLC, Brilliant Corners, Ticketmaster, Crowdsurge, Spotify, BBC Sounds, Apple, Digital Catapult, AFEM, Independent Venue Community + more…

CMU • 13 Sep 2024

Martyn’s Law • 2 min read

NTIA urges “thorough review” of Martyn's Law as it’s introduced into Parliament

Martyn’s Law, which sets out new rules to ensure the public is “better protected from terrorism” when in venues, prompted by the 2017 attack on the Manchester Arena, was introduced in Parliament yesterday. The NTIA supports the objectives but says “feasibility and fairness” must also be considered…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

BMI • 2 min read

BMI takes royalty rate dispute with Sirius XM to rate court

BMI is taking Sirius XM to the rate court, having failed to agree what royalty rates the satellite broadcaster should pay for use of the collecting society’s repertoire. The National Music Publishers Association has welcomed the move, saying it hopes the action will lessen the ‘digital radio divide’…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

Releases & Tours • 1 min read

⏩ Releases & Tours News Friday 13 Sep

London Grammar, Nilüfer Yanya, House of Protection, Duckwrth, Capo Lee & bullet tooth + more…

CMU • 13 Sep 2024

Collective Licensing • 4 min read

Congress members ask Copyright Office to review collective licensing in the US

Concerns about the organisations that license performing rights in songs in the US - BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR and AllTrack - have been raised by a committee in Congress. They want the Copyright Office to review how those organisations distribute money they receive - and why there are now five of them…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

Horizon Future Leaders • 4 min read

🌅 Horizon Future Leaders series - Holly Glanvill Q&A

As part of our new Horizon Future Leaders series of interviews, we are connecting with the music industry’s next generation of leaders to gather candid advice and insights into their career journeys. In this Q&A we caught up with Holly Glanvill, Founder & CEO of Glued Digital.…

Horizon Music Jobs • 13 Sep 2024