News Warner Music Group is hiring for a Director of AI Automation & Growth The role will "identify and prioritize automation opportunities" across Warner Music Group
News EMPIRE launches in Nordic region; hires Iman Hazheer to lead expansion across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland Hazheer spent nearly seven years at Spotify, where he led editorial strategy for the Nordics as a Senior Editor
News From Hipgnosis’ return to Suno’s new Chief Music Officer… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News Kobalt inks publishing deal with country songwriter Derrick Southerland, acquires portion of song catalog Southerland was nominated for a Grammy, and won several other awards, for his work on Ingrid Andress' 'More Hearts Than Mine'
News Judge slashes T.I. and Tiny’s award in OMG Girlz copyright infringement case over toy dolls, setting up potential fourth jury trial The jury’s awarding of punitive damages was incorrect because it wasn't proven that toy company MGA’s infringement was “willful,” a judge ruled
News After being sued by Warner for copyright infringement, DSW files lawsuit against UMG, Sony and BMG seeking court protection over music usage in TikTok, Instagram posts Legal complaint seeks court protection from copyright infringement claims, after receiving demand letters from the music companies
News TikTok to integrate Chordal’s sync licensing tech with its commercial music library Rightsholders will be able to use Chordal's InstantClear tech to opt into TikTok's Commercial Music Library.
News Live Nation proposes 20% ticket resale cap to Trump administration (report) Live Nation is also proposing expanding artist control of ticket resales and stricter enforcement of the BOTS Act from 2016.
News Savan Kotecha’s Visva Records forms JV with Republic Records after ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ chart success Republic will distribute Visva's roster, as the latter aims to develop international artists.
News Federal court blocks FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for subscription services days before rollout A US appeals court found that the FTC failed to properly conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis.
News Oak View Group CEO Timothy Leiweke indicted by DOJ for alleged arena bid rigging scheme Leiweke 'will vigorously defend himself' said spokesperson in a statement, as Oak View Chief Exec steps down
News HYBE vows to cooperate with authorities as South Korea financial regulator aims to refer Bang Si-hyuk to prosecutors (report) South Korea's securities watchdog voted to refer HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk to prosecutors.
News Downtown’s FUGA signs global partnership with Oskar Ekman’s newly-created Arketyp Group Arketyp's roster includes pop legends Miike Snow and Swedish punk band Viagra Boys
News HYBE reveals finalists for SANTOS BRAVOS, its first-ever Latin music boy group South Korean entertainment giant HYBE is bringing its "K-pop methodology" to Latin pop music
News Seeker Music acquires Jay Sean’s catalog, along with music rights from ‘Bobby Bass’ Larow and Cardiak The music company headed up by Evan Bogart has struck its latest deal