🌅 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…
“Regulating Spotify like radio is like regulating Uber like a horse and buggy” streaming giant tells Canadian regulators
Canada’s broadcasting regulator the CRTC is still figuring out how to implement the country’s Online Streaming Act, including how it should regulate streaming platforms. At a hearing last week, Spotify said it basically shouldn’t, because radio industry style regulation makes no sense online…
Diddy defence team won’t call any witnesses, jurors shown more ‘freak offs’ footage
The Diddy trial is reaching its conclusion. Although the prosecution only finished presenting their case today, the defence say they won’t call any witnesses, so only need two days to argue their case. Among evidence shown so far was 40 minutes of footage from the ‘freak offs’ Diddy orchestrated…
🎧 Approved: Shreea Kaul
Shreea Kaul slips past easy genre lines, sitting in the space between late-night honesty and sharp-eyed control. It's soft-edged R&B that doesn’t mind getting a little weird. New single ‘Crooked Salesman’ starts out hazy and alluring, then shifts under your feet…
Spotify customers forced into bundled plans says David Israelite as Senators urge FTC to intervene
US Senators have asked the FTC to investigate Spotify’s bundling trick, which saw it automatically opt premium subscribers into a music + audiobooks bundle that is more expensive and pays less to writers and publishers. The senators say they have “serious concerns” about this trick being employed…
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