Sony Music Entertainment In The News

UMG and Believe settle lawsuit that alleged ‘industrial-scale’ copyright infringement of Universal’s music

Universal Music Group and Believe have settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the Paris-headquartered music company and its distribution platform TuneCore in late 2024. A Joint Stipulation of Dismissal With Prejudice was filed today (April 3) in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, confirming that all claims in the … Continued

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TikTok’s distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks

ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works

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Elon Musk’s X seizes on Supreme Court’s landmark Cox ruling in bid to derail music publishers’ copyright case

X Corp has told a Nashville federal court that last week's ruling renders the publishers' surviving claims defunct.

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Sony Music and University of Southern California settle copyright lawsuit over music used in social media posts

USC's athletics social media accounts allegedly featured 170 Sony-owned songs without permission.

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Ezekiel Lewis named Chairman and CEO of Epic Records

Lewis joined Epic Records in 2018 as Executive Vice President, A&R

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Record labels and Spotify seek $322M default judgment from pirate group Anna’s Archive

A motion for default judgment and an accompanying memorandum of law were filed on March 25.

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Primary Wave makes strategic investment in Vietnam’s POPS Music – with plans to ramp up catalog deals in Southeast Asia

POPS claims to be 'home to the largest catalog of Vietnamese and Indonesian music'

Interviews

Key Songs In The Life Of… Colleen Theis

Colleen Theis, President and COO of The Orchard, sits down with MBW to discuss the songs – but more importantly, the experiences – that have defined her life to date