Warner Chappell Music In The News

From BMG and Concord’s completed merger to Anthropic’s multi-billion-dollar lawsuit… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest headlines from the past few days...

Donald Trump’s administration just sided with OpenAI in a key ‘fair use’ case. Here’s what it means for music’s fight with Anthropic and Suno.

It appears to be the first time Washington has intervened in any of the copyright cases now stacked up against AI companies

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Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels to help record companies manage and distribute lyrics at scale

The platform is aimed at labels ranging from independents managing a small roster to organizations managing thousands of artists and releases.

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Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’

The publishing arms of all three major music companies are now litigating against the Claude maker

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Gabe Simon: ‘If I do things I love, and I don’t put pressure on them, that’s the key’

Gabe Simon, the writer and producer most famous for his work on Noah Kahan's two monster albums, talks big breakthroughs, getting inspired, putting family first, coping with success and why AI isn't for him

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Gabz Landman promoted to Executive Vice President, A&R at Warner Chappell Music

Landman is based at the company's Los Angeles headquarters and will continue to report to Ryan Press, President, North America, WCM.

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Warner Music Group to open tech hub in Bengaluru, led by Mahesh Rao

Warner Music Group CTO Leho Nigul said Bengaluru is central to the company's global engineering strategy.

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‘India at its core is a song-driven economy, moving toward a personality-led, show business economy.’

Times Music CEO Mandar Thakur talks catalog acquisitions, India’s subscription challenge, and why he believes Indian music’s biggest opportunity lies abroad...