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IMPALA urges Apple Music to rethink its spatial audio bonus

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Apple • 3 min read

IMPALA urges Apple Music to rethink its spatial audio bonus

Independent label trade body IMPALA has called on Apple to reconsider how it has implemented a bonus for tracks delivered to Apple Music in spatial audio. Currently the system favours bigger record labels with greater resources, with independent labels more likely to lose out…

Chris Cooke • 27 Feb 2024

Music industry welcomes German ruling holding TikTok liable for unlicensed content

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TikTok • 5 min read

Music industry welcomes German ruling holding TikTok liable for unlicensed content

A German court has held TikTok liable for hosting unlicensed content following a lawsuit filed by a Berlin film distributor which relied on changes made to the copyright safe harbour by the 2019 EU Copyright Directive…

Chris Cooke • 15 Feb 2024

Setlist Podcast: Grassroots venues need ticket levy to survive

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Music Venue Trust • 4 min read

Setlist Podcast: Grassroots venues need ticket levy to survive

Calls for government support for the grassroots live music industry as more venues and festivals close, and the next evolution of Kiss…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 08 Dec 2023

Indie labels suggest delaying Spotify's royalty payout revamp to allow proper consultation

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Spotify • 2 min read

Indie labels suggest delaying Spotify's royalty payout revamp to allow proper consultation

Indie label repping IMPALA has published a list of questions about Spotify’s plans to change the way it allocates revenue to each track each month - in particular seeking clarity on and proposing refinements for the new 1000 play threshold…

Chris Cooke • 07 Dec 2023

IMPALA’s questions for Spotify over the changes it is making to its model

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Spotify • 4 min read

IMPALA’s questions for Spotify over the changes it is making to its model

The European independent music community has lots of questions about the changes Spotify is making to the way it calculates what money is due to the record industry each month…

CMU Editorial • 07 Dec 2023

European artist groups call on EU to address the ‘reciprocity’ problem created by the RAAP case

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European Union • 2 min read

European artist groups call on EU to address the ‘reciprocity’ problem created by the RAAP case

European performer unions and collecting societies, and indie label trade group IMPALA, have called on the EU to come forward with a solution to address what they see as a bad precedent set in a 2020 court case involving Irish performer society RAAP…

Chris Cooke • 28 Nov 2023

Creator groups call for EU AI Act to retain strong transparency obligations

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EU AI Act • 2 min read

Creator groups call for EU AI Act to retain strong transparency obligations

A number of groups representing creators from various art forms have called on lawmakers in Europe to ensure that the EU AI Act - now in the final phase of being negotiated - retains strong transparency obligations for AI companies…

Chris Cooke • 24 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: The call for a UK ticket touting ban

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Setlist • 17 min read

Setlist Podcast: The call for a UK ticket touting ban

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the FanFair Alliance's call for a ban on ticket touring in the UK and criticism of Deezer’s new proposals for ‘artist-centric’ royalty payments…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 18 Sep 2023

IMPALA comments on Deezer's "artist-centric" model

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IMPALA • 3 min read

IMPALA comments on Deezer's "artist-centric" model

IMPALA has commented on Deezer’s new “artist-centric” model for allocating streaming royalties, expressing concern that it has been developed "in a vacuum" with only Universal Music being consulted…

Chris Cooke • 15 Sep 2023

One Liners: ONErpm, Poppy, Explosions In The Sky, Shygirl + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 2 min read

One Liners: ONErpm, Poppy, Explosions In The Sky, Shygirl + more

ONErpm’s Asian bases; SMACKSongs promotes Lee Krabel; ANMIP joins IMPALA; Study into representation of East and Southeast Asian people in UK music, new releases from Thundercat, Poppy, Actress, Explosions In The Sky, Cherry Glazerr and Casisdead; live shows from Shygirl and Camille O’Sullivan…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 13 Sep 2023

One Liners: V, Cardi B x Megan Thee Stallion collab, Ed Sheeran + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 3 min read

One Liners: V, Cardi B x Megan Thee Stallion collab, Ed Sheeran + more

Kobalt signs Jake Torrey; IMPALA appoints new board; Ronnie Gurr joins Seabass Vinyl; new releases from BTS’s V, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Busted, Wargasm and Fred Durst, Overmono, Baby Queen, and Ellur; live dates from Ed Sheeran and Keane…

Andy Malt • 08 Sep 2023

IMPALA updates its ten step streaming plan, asks “is the label share being undervalued?”

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IMPALA • 5 min read

IMPALA updates its ten step streaming plan, asks “is the label share being undervalued?”

Pan-European indie label trade group IMPALA has updated its ten point plan to make streaming work, building on a document…

Chris Cooke • 27 Apr 2023