News KGV Kiran Kumar promoted to Managing Director, India & Middle East at The Orchard Kumar was previously Managing Director, India at the company, a remit that also covered its operations in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
News Influence Media emerges as winning bidder for Anthem’s music assets with $650M+ offer (report) It's the third time in a decade that Anthem has been put up for sale after earlier auctions in 2017 and 2022 failed to draw a high enough bid.
News As Michael Jackson movie nears $1B, Madonna says her biopic has been scrapped The Queen of Pop told Interview magazine that the project collapsed after a falling-out with Universal Pictures over its budget.
News StubHub fined $1.2M by UK market watchdog over hidden fees, ordered to refund more than 50,000 customers The CMA said StubHub UK broke consumer law by adding mandatory charges only at the final stage of checkout, a practice known as drip pricing.
News Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia acquires Sound Pollution Songs catalog of around 5,000 works The acquired catalog includes works performed by acts including Sabaton, Twilight Force, Wormwood, Bonafide, Elaine, Foredoom and Rexoria.
News Suno’s latest legal opponent fought the tobacco industry – and won a quarter of a trillion dollars Hagens Berman has joined forces with Delgado Entertainment Law to represent indie artists whose recordings were allegedly copied without permission.
Analysis The majors and BMG asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that lets songwriters reclaim copyrights worldwide. Five things to know about Vetter v. Resnik For about 50 years, the industry believed termination only affected US rights. This ruling would make those rights worldwide for the first time.
News Nvidia hit with US copyright suit claiming it trained AI models on Winamp subsidiary Jamendo’s music without permission Jamendo is seeking an injunction, plus actual damages and Nvidia's profits of "no less than" EUR €17.8 million (approx. USD $20.3 million).
News Spotify wins dismissal of lawsuit claiming it allowed ‘billions’ of fraudulent Drake streams In November 2025, rapper RBX claimed Spotify failed to curb "mass-scale fraudulent streaming," stripping royalties from other rights holders.
News Majors and BMG ask US Supreme Court to overturn copyright termination ruling they say will cause ‘chaos’ The rightsholders said the decision will cause "chaos" across the music business if it is allowed to stand.
News Major labels in Canada win site-blocking order targeting stream-ripping platforms – a first for the country’s music industry ISPs are ordered to block stream-ripping domains including Y2mate.ws, YTmp3.lat, Savefrom.space, and Spowload.cc.
News Japan passes copyright reform giving performers and record companies royalties when recordings play in public, including overseas Until now, only songwriters, composers and music publishers were paid when their music was played as background music in Japanese venues.
News Spotify’s ‘Reserved’ ticketing feature launches in the US today under a multi-year Live Nation deal, starting with indie-pop artist Role Model Eligible Spotify subscribers will begin receiving notifications that two tour tickets have been set aside for them, with a purchasing window opening on June 23.
News South Korea launches $2.2M fund to help indie K-Pop agencies expand overseas Each selected agency will receive up to 300 million won ($197,000) annually for up to three years.
News Meta moves to dismiss Wixen’s $102M lawsuit, says publisher is ‘seeking to transform a routine licensing dispute’ into a ‘sweeping’ legal battle The motion targets Wixen's first amended complaint, which lists 681 works and seeks more than $102 million in statutory damages.