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Digital services and platforms news
Spotify announces more price increases, boosting share price public
Spotify • 2 min read

Spotify announces more price increases, boosting share price

Spotify is putting up its prices again in multiple markets, including - for the first time - India. In some European markets, a monthly subscription will increase from €10.99 to €11.99. Investors have responded positively to the news, with the company’s share price increasing yesterday…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Sony sues Napster over $9.2 million in unpaid royalties public
Sony Music • 2 min read

Sony sues Napster over $9.2 million in unpaid royalties

Following reports earlier this year that Napster wasn’t paying all the royalties that were due to the music industry, Sony Music has now sued the streaming service. It says Napster hasn’t been paying its bills for over a year now and new owner Infinite Reality hasn’t fixed the problem…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump public
Artificial Intelligence • 3 min read

Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump

Donald Trump yesterday launched his much anticipated ‘AI Action Plan’. It doesn’t say anything about the copyright obligations of AI companies. But during a rambling speech launching the plan, the President said that having AI companies get licences from copyright owners is just “not doable”…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
UK regulator sets roadmap for reviewing app store payment rules public
Apple • 3 min read

UK regulator sets roadmap for reviewing app store payment rules

Last year the UK’s competition regulator closed an investigation into the Apple App Store rules that Spotify hates, but only so it could figure out how to use new powers it had been granted by Parliament. Now it’s done that, it’s proposed a roadmap for reviewing the hated rules, starting this autumn…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Songwriters to get per diems as part of creator remuneration package, though creator orgs say “much more still needs to be done” public
Creator Remuneration Working Group • 5 min read

Songwriters to get per diems as part of creator remuneration package, though creator orgs say “much more still needs to be done”

UK minister Chris Bryant has announced a set of principles on creator remuneration agreed with record labels, plus two new initiatives including per diems for songwriters. However, music creator groups say “much more still needs to be done” to address issues around how streaming money is shared…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
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