Universal Music Group In The News

Universal, Republic launch Boombox music player on Roblox

Boombox will roll out first in TWICE Square, the Roblox experience inspired by K-pop girl group TWICE

AI vocal cloning app Voicify offers 3,000 deepfake models to replicate artists’ voices. Now it faces legal action from the UK’s music industry

BPI has sent a letter to Voicify, now known as Jammable, threatening legal action if the app doesn't stop enabling users to create unauthorized music deepfakes

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Soundful founder and CEO Diaa El All: ‘There is a way to create disruptive technological advances in AI while keeping the integrity of artists’ rights at the forefront.’

Soundful founder and CEO Diaa El All shares his thoughts around copyright issues related to AI music

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Nine Canadian ‘streaming manipulation sites’ shut down in win for record companies

Streaming manipulation misleads music fans and interferes with the effective operation of music streaming sites, IFPI and Music Canada said

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From Universal’s TikTok takedowns to Deezer’s 26m deleted tracks… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

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Down The Skibidi Toilet: Why Universal Music Group’s ‘Project Timeout’ is hitting TikTok with endless copyright takedown requests

There is a lot to explain here....

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Record companies are better placed than streaming platforms to monetize superfans… and 3 other things Robert Kyncl said in his new Q&A

Warner Music Group’s CEO has some “radical” ideas on how to change how streaming services pay music rights holders

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Deezer has deleted 26m ‘useless’ tracks since it launched artist-centric model with Universal Music Group

The idea is to "declutter the platform" and "focus on tracks that are valuable to our users" according to CEO Jeronimo Folgueira