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Music industry legal news coverage

Our round up of legal battles, courtroom drama, copyright disputes and everything else.
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Music industry legal news coverage
BPI threatens to sue voice cloning site Voicify public
Voicify • 3 min read

BPI threatens to sue voice cloning site Voicify

After the US record industry raised concerns about UK-based voice cloning service Voicify in a piracy document last year, it has emerged that British trade group BPI is now threatening legal action against the platform, which makes “high quality AI covers in seconds”…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Spanish appeals court sides with Unison in SGAE dispute public
SGAE • 2 min read

Spanish appeals court sides with Unison in SGAE dispute

A court in Barcelona has ruled against Spanish collecting society SGAE, which was accused of anti-competitive conduct by putting barriers in place to stop members moving their rights to rival society Unison. A competition regulator previously fined SGAE and the court has now awarded Unison damages…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Nine stream manipulation sites taken offline in Canada public
Streaming Fraud • 2 min read

Nine stream manipulation sites taken offline in Canada

Nine stream manipulation websites have gone offline in Canada as a result of action prompted by a formal complaint from the country’s record industry to the Canadian Competition Bureau. Music Canada says this development sets an “important regulatory precedent that can be followed in other markets”…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Drake asks to be removed from Astroworld lawsuits public
Drake • 2 min read

Drake asks to be removed from Astroworld lawsuits

Drake was named as a defendant on some of the hundreds of lawsuits filed following the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, because he had a guest spot during festival founder Travis Scott’s headline set. In a new legal filing, he has asked the court to dismiss all the claims made against him personally…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
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