Analysis News Anthropic trained its AI to rip off copyrighted lyrics, music publishers allege in escalating court battle UMG, Concord and ABKCO allege that Anthropic's AI chatbot is still spitting out copyrighted lyrics, despite Anthropic's claim to the contrary
News Ron Perry, Chairman and CEO of Columbia Records, named UJA-Federation’s Music Visionary of the Year Perry joins such previous honorees as Rob Stringer, Michele Anthony, Steve Boom and Daniel Ek
News Roddy Ricch wins copyright infringement lawsuit over ‘The Box’ A US District Court judge found “significant dissimilarities” between ‘The Box’ and ‘Come On Down,’ the song supposedly infringed by Roddy Ricch
News EU AI Act headed for parliamentary vote, with some copyright provisions still unclear The AI Act requires tech companies to reveal what copyrighted materials were used to train AI, but whether they will have to license that material is less clear
News AI developers must get authorization to use copyrighted materials, India’s government declares The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has applauded the declaration by the country's Minister of State for Commerce and Industry
News Travis Scott sued for alleged copyright infringement over ‘Stargazing’ and ‘Til Further Notice’ A vocal line from a 1991 track was used without permission in 'Stargazing' and 'Til Further Notice,' a new lawsuit alleges
Analysis News From Warner’s best-ever quarter to Spotify’s $9bn payout to the music industry… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Reservoir generated $35.5m in calendar Q4 2023, up 19% YoY The company has raised its outlook for full-year revenue and adjusted EBITDA, in the wake of "strong revenue growth"
Analysis As Warner Music Group posts its biggest ever quarter… WMG boss Robert Kyncl says he’s ‘confident’ that Universal and TikTok will resolve their spat Kyncl is planning 'as much automation as possible,' and more lobbying for higher prices at music streaming services
Analysis News Audacy resolves dispute with BMI for $25m, clearing way for BMI’s sale A lawsuit against BMI by Audacy could have caused BMI and New Mountain "to abandon the merger altogether"
Analysis News Spotify’s spat with Apple, its new deal with Joe Rogan and further cost-cutting: 3 things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call Spotify would be experimenting with a variety of payment models, were it not for the Apple Store’s so-called “app tax,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said.
News Beggars Group, Secretly, Partisan Records among indie labels pushing back against Apple Music’s higher payouts for Spatial Audio (report) "The new deal will badly impact our revenues," an indie record label executive says
Analysis News From Universal’s feud with TikTok to YouTube Music’s 100m subscribers… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Primary Wave moves into Brazilian music with stake in Nas Nuvens Catalog (report) The deal reportedly involves Primary Wave taking a 50% stake in the three-year-old Brazilian music rights company
News USTR’s ‘Notorious Markets’ Report doesn’t mention AI-voice cloning, despite RIAA’s efforts The USTR report identifies a 'complex ecosystem' of online services that enable digital piracy