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Amazon cuts jobs in its music division
Amazon has instigated some more redundancies, this time specifically in its music division - affected employees were told about the cutbacks on Wednesday…
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Canva launches music library product
Canva yesterday announced that users of the graphic design platform can now easily insert music into their content from a large catalogue of tracks - it follows deals earlier this year with Warner and Merlin…
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Spotify brings audiobook listening to US Premium accounts
Spotify is bringing audiobook listening to premium accounts in the US. Lucky Americans. They join users in the UK and Australia, who had the fifteen hours of audiobook access dumped on them last month…
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Sony Music has a new logo, Deezer and SiriusXM have a brandwank
Sony Music, Deezer and SiriusXM have all unveiled new logos. Sony’s delves into its brand heritage, Deezer’s aims to “recharge people's emotional connection to the brand”, and SiriusXM’s “gives a nod to the service’s consumer value proposition”…
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Beatport launches new membership product for producers
Beatport has announced the launch of Beatport Studio, providing music producers with access to tools and resources which will allow them to “establish, expand and refine their production style”…
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Apple Music discontinues its Siri-centric Voice Plan
Apple Music has discontinued its Voice Plan, a mid-price option where users could only interact with the service via Siri…
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Tidal launches new tool for finding musical collaborators
Streaming service Tidal has launched a new tool that will help artists find and connect with possible collaborators…
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DistroKid expands its licensing partnership with TikTok
DIY distributor DistroKid has expanded its licensing partnership with TikTok so that it now also covers the new TikTok Music service…
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Music industry restates artificial intelligence priorities ahead of UK government's AI Safety Summit
UK Music has sent a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak setting out the industry’s priorities for AI regulation ahead of the AI Safety Summit that is being staged by the British government this week…
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Visual art copyright case against Stability AI stripped back but will proceed
A US lawsuit testing the copyright obligations of AI companies - pursued by visual artists against image-generating AI platforms - can proceed, although with various parties removed and claims dismissed…
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Meta announces ad-free premium option in Europe to comply with data regulations
Meta is launching an ad-free premium option for Facebook and Instagram in Europe - but only to comply with data regulations in the European Union - the social media firm insists “we believe in an ad-supported internet”…
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Spotify also in talks with industry to change track allocation process
Spotify is in talks with the labels and distributors about changing the way it allocates revenues to tracks each month - like with changes proposed by Deezer, Spotify’s plan will impact functional audio and smaller self-releasing musicians…