Sony Music Publishing In The News

Partisan acquires Firebird’s interest in indie pubco OTM Music, merges it with its Left Music publishing arm

As part of the merger, OTM will incorporate the team and roster of Left Music, the publishing company Partisan set up with Craig Michie in 2022.

Anthropic bought songbooks, scanned them, and destroyed them, music publishers allege – now they want to know which songs were in them.

Both sides set out their positions in statements filed on Friday (September 11)

Cyril Vetter asks US Supreme Court to reject challenge by majors and BMG to ruling that lets songwriters reclaim copyrights worldwide

Songwriter's lawyers filed a brief in opposition on Monday, September 14

Universal Music and Warner Chappell partner on launch of Ecuadorian music company Sonido Distrito Sur, led by Juan Fernando Velasco

Ecuadorian singer-songwriter Juan Fernando Velasco is also president of SAYCE, the Ecuadorian authors' and composers' society.

From BMG and Concord’s completed merger to Anthropic’s multi-billion-dollar lawsuit… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Donald Trump’s administration just sided with OpenAI in a key ‘fair use’ case. Here’s what it means for music’s fight with Anthropic and Suno.

It appears to be the first time Washington has intervened in any of the copyright cases now stacked up against AI companies

Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels to help record companies manage and distribute lyrics at scale

The platform is aimed at labels ranging from independents managing a small roster to organizations managing thousands of artists and releases.

Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’

The publishing arms of all three major music companies are now litigating against the Claude maker