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A very long YouTube/PRS For Music report and commentary - you'll be wishing they blocked this

YouTube blocks music videos in the UK over a licence dispute with PRS For Music, which says it was not warned and that negotiations were ongoing.…

CMU Editorial • 10 Mar 2009

Artist News • 2 min read

Rihanna will testify, if asked: Rihanna/Brown update

Rihanna's lawyer says she will testify if asked, while Chris Brown reportedly seeks a plea bargain and Rihanna's producer says she is recording new material.…

CMU Editorial • 10 Mar 2009

Artist News

Winehouse's Coachella gig canned

Amy Winehouse will not perform at Coachella as planned, her spokesman Chris Goodman says, citing legal issues linked to an assault charge and her US visa.…

CMU Editorial • 10 Mar 2009

Artist News

C-Murder jailed over house arrest rules

Rapper Corey Miller, formerly C-Murder, has reportedly been returned to prison after an electronic monitor showed he was out of range at his home in Kenner.…

CMU Editorial • 10 Mar 2009

Artist News • 2 min read

It was an SMS that started it: Rihanna/Brown Update

Court papers reveal that a text message on Chris Brown's phone sparked the row with Rihanna, with Brown charged with assault and given a protective order.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Mar 2009

Business News • 2 min read

Canadian officials to investigate Ticketmaster / TicketsNow tie up

The Canadian government has asked its Competition Bureau to investigate Ticketmaster's promotion of its secondary ticketing site TicketsNow, following similar scrutiny in New Jersey.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Mar 2009

Business News • 2 min read

Universal win Shady tunes court fight

Universal Music Group has won a federal jury trial against FBT Productions over the rate of royalties due on digital sales, a result that could have had wide implications.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Mar 2009

Artist News

Coolio charged with drugs possession

Coolio has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and charged with drugs possession, and released on $10,000 bail.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Mar 2009

Artist News • 1 min read

Brown charged with thuggery and nastiness

Chris Brown has been formally charged with assault likely to cause great bodily harm in addition to making criminal threats, after attacking Rihanna in February.…

CMU Editorial • 06 Mar 2009

Business News • 1 min read

Braxton may sue gig promoters

Toni Braxton is consulting lawyers after a Suriname promoter reportedly billed a tribute act as her, sparking a riot when the audience realised.…

CMU Editorial • 06 Mar 2009

Business News • 1 min read

Mexican authorities raid massive piracy operation

Mexican authorities have seized over 350,000 bootleg CDs, thousands of DVDs and 1,800 CD burners from a piracy facility in Veracruz, allegedly run by a drug-linked group.…

CMU Editorial • 06 Mar 2009

Artist News • 1 min read

Rihanna drops charges, as she and Brown marry?

Rumours suggest Rihanna has dropped charges against Chris Brown and that the couple have married, though police say the case can proceed without her testimony.…

CMU Editorial • 05 Mar 2009

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