🎧 Approved: Nature TV
Brighton’s Nature TV are easy breezy, blending soulful indie-pop with 70s-soaked rhythms. Their latest single manages to capture a sense of warmth while still exploring the melancholy of wanting more.…
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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
Universal tries to get Drake petition in Texas courts dismissed by arguing he’s relying on mere “hearsay”
Last year Drake filed petitions against Universal Music with courts in New York and Texas, accusing it of employing dodgy tactics when promoting Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’. The New York petition was replaced by the big defamation lawsuit, but the Texas one stands. Universal wants it dismissed…
Universal Music’s new Spotify deal could be a knock-out blow for streaming platform’s audiobook bundling trick
Universal Music has signed a big new deal with Spotify, and it’s precisely what Lucian Grainge “envisioned” when he coined the buzzword “streaming 2.0”, apparently. More importantly, it seems to address the audiobook bundling dispute when it comes to Universal’s songs catalogue in the US…
Jay-Z’s bid to dismiss sexual assault lawsuit is “outrageous and unprecedented attempt” to silence his accuser, says lawyer
Earlier this month Jay-Z called for the lawsuit that accuses him of rape to be dismissed and the lawyer who filed it to be sanctioned. That lawyer, Tony Buzbee, has now responded, calling Jay-Z’s motion for dismissal an “outrageous and unprecedented attempt” to silence his client…
French Supreme Court says bank had right to stop taking payments for file-storage platform on piracy grounds
In 2015, Société Générale stopped providing services to file-storage platform 1fichier.com because of complaints it hadn’t done enough to stop copyright infringement. It argued that copyright complaints were not grounds for cutting it off, but the French Supreme Court has now ruled that they were…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Zine Abdi Q&A
As part of our Horizon Future Leaders series, we’re connecting with the music industry’s next generation of leaders to gather candid advice and insights into their career journeys. This week we caught up with Zine Abdi, Communications Manager at Love Is The Message.…
Judge says Fred Durst can’t cancel old record deals in royalty dispute with Universal Music
Last year Fred Durst sued Universal Music accusing the major of breach of contract and copyright infringement, and seeking to cancel his old deals with the music company. A court has now ruled that Durst has failed to demonstrate there are grounds for actually rescinding his old record contracts…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sues for defamation over claims videos exist showing him sexually assaulting celebrities and minors
Diddy has sued a man who claims he has videos showing the musician sexually assaulting celebrities and minors. No such videos exist, Diddy claims in a defamation lawsuit that also targets news network NewsNation, which - it says - provided a platform for distributing the “outlandish claims”…
LIVE calls on government to address Brexit issues, regulate ticket touting and provide more economic support as it sets out six key priorities
UK live sector trade group LIVE has published an agenda setting out its priorities for 2025, including the issues it will lobby government on. There are the customary calls for more economic support for the live industry, as well as requests relating to Brexit and Martyn’s Law…
🎧 Approved: Floodlights
Australian band Floodlights blend post-punk grit with atmospheric storytelling, their sound restless and searching. With a vocal delivery reminiscent of David Byrne, they capture the emotional undercurrents of everyday life, driven by a deep sense of place and poetic exploration…
Chris Brown files $500 million defamation lawsuit over documentary which, he says, was “full of lies and deception”
Warner Bros Discovery has been sued for defamation over a Chris Brown documentary which included claims that he raped a woman in 2020, an allegation the musician strongly denies. In his $500 million lawsuit, he says Discovery knew that woman’s claims were not credible before airing the programme…
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