Warner Music Group In The News

Major music publishers ink AI licensing deals with lyrics and music data company Musixmatch

Musixmatch says it will use the publishers' catalogs to build 'non-generative' AI tools

Frank Sinatra name, image and likeness rights acquired by Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group

Azoff said at Bloomberg's Screentime conference last week that the company 'recently acquired a chunk of the Sinatra estate.'

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Warner Music merges Benelux-GSA businesses; Niels Walboomers named President, as Central Europe bosses Doreen Schimk & Fabian Drebes exit

Company combines recorded music businesses in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, with those in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria under the Warner Music Central Europe banner

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Facing ‘stream-ripping’ allegations from labels, Suno & Udio weigh in on separate case to challenge ruling that makes YouTube downloading illegal

Now that the majors have accused Suno and Udio of stream-ripping, the AI companies are pushing to have the practice declared legal

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From Drake losing his UMG lawsuit to HYBE’s new services division… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

The biggest headlines from the past few days – all in one place

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WMG is ‘like Marvel for music’ and 4 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl’s Bloomberg interview

Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl outlined his vision for the music industry's future at the Bloomberg Screentime conference

Interviews

Zebralution’s Konrad von Löhneysen talks independent distribution and the firm’s €100m-a-year revenue target

MBW's World Leaders series meets Konrad von Löhneysen, Founder & CEO of Embassy of Music and Co-CEO of Zebralution

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Virgin Music strikes distribution deal with Ghana’s MiPROMO, expanding footprint in Africa

MiPROMO handles digital and video distribution for Ghana artists, along with digital and video distribution, social media marketing, web publishing, branding and event activation.