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News From double DAW deals to AI lawsuit results for Meta and Anthropic… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music industry headlines from the past few days
News Court shoots down Sarah Silverman’s case against Meta’s AI – but declares using copyrighted works for training is NOT ‘fair use’ The latest ruling contradicts another ruling on AI and fair use, issued by a different judge in the same court just two days earlier
News Rumblefish inks ByteDance deal to provide music licensing services to TikTok, CapCut Rumblefish is part of SESAC's 'Music Services' division alongside operations such as AudioSalad, Audiam, HAAWK, HFA, Mint, and SESAC Digital Licensing
News AI music platform Suno acquires WavTool, moving into DAW market WavTool's browser-based DAW technology will be integrated into Suno's existing AI music generation platform.
News TikTok launches LIVE Fan Club feature as platform hits 130M daily livestreamers Fan Club members receive perks like access to exclusive chat rooms, special badges, and entrance spotlights when joining livestreams.
News Snoop Dogg settles copyright dispute over alleged use of two backing tracks on ‘BODR’ album The parties filed a joint dismissal motion in federal court in California, ending a dispute that was scheduled to go to trial in September.
News Indie artists can now upload videos to Spotify through DistroKid’s video service Spotify's music video feature is available in beta in 98 markets, but the US and Canada aren't among them
News Udio, still battling copyright lawsuit from music majors, launches AI ‘visual editing workstation’ 'Sessions' allows users to manipulate song structures by moving, extending or replacing sections within tracks.
News Satoshi Tanaka appointed CEO at SPACE SHOWER FUGA as Koichi Sato shifts to Chairman role The JV between FUGA and Space Shower Networks has built a roster of some 2,000 clients, including indie labels, artist managers and rightsholders
Interviews ‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’ Shelly Peiken on writing classic hits for Meredith Brooks, Christina Aguilera and many others, as well as her fight for songwriters' rights, ignoring the algorithm, and not being an asshole
News Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story
News UMPG’s Jody Gerson appointed to board of Ancestry.com The 42-year-old Ancestry LLC is the world's largest for-profit genealogy company
News Margherita Gnech elevated to Managing Director of Italy at Sony Music Publishing Based out of Milan, Gnech will report directly to Sony Music Publishing President, International Guy Henderson.
News SoundCloud renews European ad deal with SiriusXM’s AdsWizz The alliance covers Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Finland, and Norway.
News K-pop agencies HYBE, SM Entertainment and more agree to subcontract reforms after FTC probe Each company will contribute KRW 200 million to create a KRW 1 billion mutual cooperation fund for suppliers.
News Casey Thomas appointed Vice President of Marketing at Lost Highway Vincent Masino has also been named Manager, Audience Development and Content Strategy at the label.
News Splice strikes partnership with Avid to add sample library to Pro Tools DAW The latest version of Avid's popular DAW also features an AI-powered speech-to-text tool to search for lyrics and speech
