Ella Eyre has released her first single under a new deal with [PIAS], which sees her move into a new phase with an independent label, having previously been signed to Universal…
Private equity outfit New Mountain Capital has agreed a deal to buy US collecting society BMI - terms of the deal are not known but $100 million will be distributed to songwriters and publishers allied to the organisation…
The VP Of Audio at Stability AI, Ed Newton-Rex, has resigned in protest at the company’s position that training generative AI models with existing content is fair use under US copyright law - meaning it does not need to get the permission of copyright owners…
Spotify will start issuing fines to labels and distributors that deliver tracks that are subject to heavy stream manipulation - a move that has been criticised by at least one DIY distributor…
Warner Music and the Edith Piaf estate have announced plans for an animated biopic that will use AI to allow the late singer to narrate her own life story…
Universal Music has had its plans to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade certified by the Science Based Targets initiative. The major says that this is a first for a standalone music company…
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…
Record industry veteran LA Reid has been sued by a former colleague at Arista Records who claims he sexually assaulted and harassed her when she was working in A&R at the label in the early 2000s…
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”…
The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has appointed former head of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund, Robert Naylor, as its new Chair. This comes after investors declined to reappoint Andrew Sutch to that role following the recent continuation vote…
The musicFIRST Coalition has launched a new Dionne Warwick-fronted campaign to garner support for the American Music Fairness Act, which would introduce a royalty for the use of sound recordings by AM and FM radio stations in the US for the first time…
Universal Music last week opened a "concept retail store dedicated to supporting music super-fans" in Tokyo - complete with a Japanese spin-off of the Rolling Stones’ London shop RS No.9…
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