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Politician in France calls for new tax on music streaming services

A senator in France has called on the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak to start taxing music streaming platforms

From the ‘fake Drake’ AI track to BMG integrating frontline and catalog… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days

Daniel Ek takes Spotify’s battle with Apple to Washington

Ek is in Washington, DC, this week, to lobby lawmakers to pass a law that would prevent Apple from engaging in 'anti-steering' behavior.

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AI ‘fake Drake’ track deleted on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok after Universal Music Group copyright claim

The holding page of ghostwriter's now-defunct YouTube upload reads: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.

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SoundCloud partners with Feature.fm to provide marketing tools to indie artists

Feature.fm's services include shareable and trackable pre-save and smart links

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Universal Music Group responds to ‘fake Drake’ AI track: Streaming platforms have ‘a fundamental responsibility to prevent the use of their services in ways that harm artists’

UMG calls on streaming services to choose the right 'side of history'

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Apple Music, Deezer, TIDAL pull down viral AI ‘fake Drake and The Weeknd’ track (update)

Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve has now surpassed 625,000 plays on Spotify

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Lawmakers in US state of Montana pass bill to ban TikTok

Lawmakers in the US state voted in favor of the move on Friday (April 14)