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Kate Bush is the world’s biggest independent artist right now. She’s owning it.

Kate Bush owns her recorded music rights. So do many other superstar artists – young and old.

Julia Betley joins Warner Records as SVP of Creative Sync Licensing

Betley will develop Warner's strategy for creative music placement and campaigns

Kate Bush had the biggest record in the UK last week, but she’s not No.1 on the Official Chart. This is a watershed moment for a music industry struggling to understand the meaning of ‘new’.

Kate Bush has been robbed in her home nation. The music industry must learn lessons from what it says.

Music’s biggest companies are waiting for a Spotify price rise. For now, Spotify isn’t budging.

Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix "didn't get ahead of itself" with its streaming price rises...

The Gamification of Everything

The following op/ed comes from Dan Symons, founder of SPLIT / LIP, a Web3 and metaverse business consultancy for rights owners

Music streaming has a ‘tsundoku’ problem

London-based music industry journalist Eamonn Forde on the future of music streaming's subscription model

Shutterstock acquires stock video marketplace Pond5 for $210m, including a library of 1.6m royalty-free music tracks

Pond5's customers include the likes of Netflix, Disney, NBC, BBC and Discovery Channel

Splice Chief Music Officer Maria Egan exits, joins Riot Games as Global Head of Music & Events

Egan was previously Chief Music Officer at Splice since 2020