🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Mia Thornton
As part of our 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.…
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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
🎧 Approved: Plato III
Plato III is the shape-shifting rap project of Ryan Silva - a former game show contestant, Dungeon studio pilgrim, and sharp-eyed chronicler of modern life. New single ‘I Want (Money) is a funk-laced bop paired with a vivid, surrealist video inspired by his own time on a game show…
Seeking to keep copyright and AI out of the Data Bill, ministers promise an impact assessment of proposed copyright exception
When the UK House Of Lords considered a new Data Bill it added some lines about the copyright and transparency obligations of AI companies. The government got them removed, but some MPs are trying to get them reinserted. Ministers now hope to placate critics with the promise of an impact assessment…
Artists sign open letter supporting Kneecap and opposing “political repression of artistic freedom”
Politicians and pundits laying into Kneecap over controversial on-stage remarks is now resulting in shows being cancelled. Seeing that as an attack on free speech, a stack of artists have signed an open letter supporting the rap group and criticising a “concerted attempt to censor” the band…
Björn Ulvaeus tells British lawmakers that the “AI revolution” will be positive, but only if creator rights are respected
Björn Ulvaeus has been in Westminster this week in his role as CISAC President urging UK lawmakers to resist demands from AI companies to weaken copyright law. The “AI revolution” is to be welcomed, he told MPs and Lords, providing AI companies form “mutually-respecting partnerships” with creators…
US House passes TICKET Act, but industry groups raise concerns about loophole in speculative selling ban
The US House Of Representatives has passed the TICKET Act, which will introduce new regulations for the American ticketing sector. The music community is mainly supportive of the new rules, though there are concerns that there’s a problematic loophole in the current version of the new legislation…
The Isaac Hayes estate’s copyright lawsuit against Trump can proceed, but judge axes false endorsement claims
Attempts by Donald Trump to get a copyright lawsuit filed over his use of an Isaac Hayes song at his rallies dismissed have failed, meaning the litigation will now proceed. However, a separate claim that Trump’s use of the song also constituted false endorsement has been axed by the judge…
Kneecap distance themselves from past on-stage remarks, but remain forthright in response to critics
Kneecap have responded to the recent controversies about past on-stage remarks, which have become newsworthy following their Coachella sets. They insist they don’t support Hamas and would never incite violence, adding past comments are being misrepresented “to manufacture moral hysteria”…
🎧 Approved: Model/Actriz
New York provocateurs Model/Actriz are like gothy post-punk dragged across a sweat-slicked dance floor. Their new single ‘Diva’ is an unsettling, seductive descent into desire and detachment…
Conservative leader calls for Kneecap to be prosecuted over “kill your local MP” statement, as potential US visa issues mount for the group
Kneecap are facing mounting criticism over past comments in support of Hamas and declaring that “the only good Tory is a dead Tory”. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wants the rap group prosecuted, while speculation increases that Donald Trump’s government could block them from touring in the US…
Major labels want to formally intervene in legal case to oppose Canadian streaming levy
The major record companies want to intervene in the legal case challenging the proposed streaming levy in Canada. The major labels, unlike the indies, oppose the levy, and say they are “uniquely positioned” to provide insight as the digital platforms fight the levy proposals through the courts…
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