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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

PopArabia • 1 min read

PopArabia's rights agency announces licensing deal with Anghami

Anghami, the MENA focused streaming service, has agreed a licensing deal with ESMAA, the rights management entity owned by PopArabia. It brings to an end a legal dispute between PopArabia and Anghami, and also includes rights from a number of other independent music publishers…

Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2024

Dua Lipa • 3 min read

Legal dispute over talk-box vocals in Dua Lipa hit allowed to proceed

Dua Lipa has failed to get one of the lawsuits filed over ‘Levitating’ dismissed. Bosko Kante says he provided talk box vocals for that hit, but they also featured on remixes without his permission. Lipa tried to get the case dismissed, but a judge has rejected her arguments for dismissal…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

Releases & Tours • 1 min read

⏩ Releases & Tours News Thursday 12 Sep

JD. REID, Kendrick Lamar, Love Remain, Margo Price, Brandon Nembhard, Fousheé, Hans Zimmer + more…

CMU • 12 Sep 2024

Diddy • 3 min read

Danity Kane member the latest to accuse Diddy of sexual harassment and assault

Danity Kane member Dawn Richard is the latest person to sue Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs over allegations of sexual abuse. She also claims to have witnessed Combs abusing and assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs’ lawyer says Richard has “manufactured a series of false claims” to secure a payday…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 6 min read

⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Def Jam Sweden, Warner Chappell x Defected, beatBread appoints new Head Of Finance, Scottish Album of the Year longlist announced

Today: BPI, Sony Music Germany, The University Of Wolverhampton, Armada Music, Scottish Album Of The Year - or SAY - Award, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Tune.fm, Disco, Salt, beatBread, Warner Chappell x Defected, Universal Music Sweden, Def Jam Recordings Sweden…

CMU • 12 Sep 2024

Live Nation • 3 min read

Live Nation boss insists concerts are “incredibly affordable”, especially when compared to sport

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was interviewed at a Goldman Sachs conference earlier this week. With the fallout from the Oasis shows in the UK, it was interesting to see what he had to say about ticket prices. Live music is “incredibly affordable”, he argued, especially when compared to sport…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2024

Johnson & Johnson • 2 min read

Johnson & Johnson sued over “rampant infringement” of tracks from APM production music library

Quite a few brands have now been sued for using hit records in their social media posts without getting a music licence. Now production music companies are getting in on that action. APM has sued Johnson & Johnson for using music from its libraries in social media videos without getting permission…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

Releases & Tours • 1 min read

⏩ Releases & Tours News Wednesday 11 Sep

Nilüfer Yanya, MJ Lenderman, Flo Milli, Franz Ferdinand, Ben Böhmer, Danny & The Champions of the World, The Get Up Kids + more…

CMU • 11 Sep 2024

Kobalt • 2 min read

Kobalt confident it will get out of paying Spotify’s legal bills in Eminem dispute on appeal

Last month Kobalt was told to pay Spotify’s legal bills in relation to the big copyright battle between the streaming service and Eminem’s publisher. Last week the judge declined to reconsider that ruling but cleared the way for Kobalt to formally appeal. It has now confirmed it is doing just that…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

BBC • 3 min read

BBC Chair says neither subscriptions nor ads would work as future funding models

How the BBC should be funded in the future was discussed in the House Of Lords yesterday. There has been much speculation over the years that a subscription model might eventually replace the current licence fee funding system. But BBC Chair Samir Shah told the Lords that wouldn’t work…

Chris Cooke • 11 Sep 2024

One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 8 min read

⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Audiomack x Mogul, Jasleen Royal’s legal battle with T-Series, Rough Trade's Denmark Street store, Concord labels rejig, NewJeans want ex-Ador CEO reinstated + more

Today: Audiomack, TunedGlobal, 5020 Records, Great Entertainment, Audoo, T-Series, Namecheap, Tracksy, Singular Hearing, Rough Trade, National Independent Venue Association, Concord Records, MXTR, NewJeans, Queen, Mew + more…

CMU • 11 Sep 2024