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Nearly $50m has now been withdrawn by artists and participants using Sony Music’s Cash Out and Real Time Advances features

Sony publishes 2022 recap for Artists Forward

4 things we learned from Merck Mercuriadis’ Q&A with Hipgnosis Songs Fund analysts

Hipgnosis founder discusses decay curves, ownership of catalogs and more in London

From Anghami’s 200,000 AI-generated songs to the latest copyright infringement lawsuit against a US ISP… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Music companies hit internet service operator Altice USA with $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit

Altice, which owns the Optimum broadband brand, has become the latest US IP to be hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit

Rachel Chernoff appointed SVP of Data Science and Analytics at Sony Music Entertainment

Chernoff leads a newly combined team in New York

A year ago, Patrick Moxey sold Ultra Records to Sony Music. Now the label is suing his publishing company.

Sony-owned Ultra Records says it terminated Moxey's right to use the Ultra name for his independent pubco

Universal Music has a new boss in Australia: Sean Warner

Warner succeeds George Ash, who is retiring from UMG

Triller responds to Sony Music lawsuit over unpaid licensing fees

SME sued Triller for allegedly failing to pay millions of dollars' in contractual licensing fees