Ticketmaster is refunding fans who bought touted tickets at hiked up prices for Olivia Dean’s shows on its US platform, after she protested last week. Dean has urged other artists to challenge their ...
Budweiser, the king of carbonated disappointment in a can, is proud that it’s found an apparent loophole that means it doesn’t need to pay for “music right$” when harnessing “the most iconic songs in ...
CMU takes a look back at some of the funniest, most ridiculous, or downright strange stories from 2023's music business. Each day in our email newsletter CMU Daily we round off our news summary with ...
Ultra Music Publishing will have to change its name after losing a trademark legal battle with Sony Music, which owns the Ultra trademark as owner of the Ultra Records label - previously a sister ...
Drew Hill has announced that Proper Music Distribution will be acquired by Artone, the Dutch physical music specialists, in a triumph for the future of independent physical music in the UK Today’s ...
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Together For Palestine, Sasha Keable, Sean Trelford, Deca OTA + Sex Mask ‘LULLABY’ by Together For Palestine, featuring Amena, ...
Barry White's estate has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song 'Like That' by Future and Metro Boomin. The legal action, lodged in Manhattan federal court, targets Rodney-O & Joe Cooley ...
In a wide ranging interview on the 20VC podcast, Suno.ai boss Mikey Shulman has outlined his vision for music in the age of AI, saying that AI generated music is an opportunity to drive greater ...
French collecting society SACEM has signed up to Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ approach to paying royalties, which disadvantages tracks released by artists who fail to meet certain thresholds. That system ...
Universal Music has signed a big new deal with Spotify, and it’s precisely what Lucian Grainge “envisioned” when he coined the buzzword “streaming 2.0”, apparently. More importantly, it seems to ...
A lawsuit that names Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Daddy Yankee among its defendants and basically accuses the whole reggaeton genre of copyright infringement has been allowed to proceed. Producers Steely & ...
The UK government is hoping to further placate MPs that want to include provisions around copyright and AI in the Data Bill that will be debated in the House Of Commons tomorrow by revising its ...