Analysis MBW founder Tim Ingham on the most talked-about music biz story of the past few weeks News The company has hired Grayson Flatness as an A&R consultant, and Kate London to head up legal and business affairs News Anthropic describes many of the claims against it as "implausible and supported by threadbare and conclusory allegations" News Altice says it plans to "vigorously defend" against a separate lawsuit brought by Warner Music and Sony Music News A long-running legal battle between Cox and record companies could end up being decided at the US's top court News Sources told MBW earlier this month that Apollo had co-funded Sony's takeover of Queen's catalog News Hipgnosis Songs Fund will officially delist from the London Stock Exchange Analysis News A new front has opened in the battle between IP owners and AI companies who would use copyrighted IP to train AI without permission