Warner Music Group In The News

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Warner Music Group and its CFO didn’t part ways because of a dud quarter – WMG filing shows subscription streaming revenues up 11% YoY in calendar Q2

Overall revenues up 9% YoY at constant currency to approximately $1.86 billion

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Clique Apps enters the superfan market with standalone apps built for individual artists

Unlike Patreon or FanFix profiles, each Clique app lives independently under the creator's name in the App Store.

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AI and Protecting a Celebrity’s voice through Trademark

The following MBW op/ed comes from Music Attorneys Heidy Vaquerano and Cynthia Katz at Fox Rothschild.

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Tom Corson promoted to new role as COO of Warner Music Group

Corson succeeds outgoing Armin Zerza, who WMG announced earlier is leaving his dual CFO/COO role at the company

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Armin Zerza exits as Warner Music Group CFO and COO

Zerza will remain available to WMG through the end of the fiscal year to support the transition.

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From Universal Music’s $3.83B quarter to Suno’s German court defeat… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest headlines from the past few days...

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Suno loses copyright infringement lawsuit brought by GEMA in Germany

AI music generator Suno has lost the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by German collecting society GEMA. The collecting society alleged that Suno used, stored and reproduced copyrighted music to train its AI tool without a license or payment to the rightsholders. Reuters reported on Friday morning (July 31) that the Munich Regional Court found Suno … Continued

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IFPI rolls out labels’ AI chart-eligibility rules across its global network of official music charts

IFPI has applied the framework to the charts it directly manages