Universal Music Group In The News

Merlin signs Spotify licensing deal for AI-powered ‘fan-made’ covers and remixes

The tool will let fans create covers and remixes of songs from participating Merlin members' artists and songwriters.

BMG acquires Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale’s publishing and recorded rights

BMG has published Stockdale globally since 2016, and the acquisition adds his recorded music royalties and neighboring rights to that relationship.

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Warner Music Group and its CFO didn’t part ways because of a dud quarter – WMG filing shows subscription streaming revenues up 11% YoY in calendar Q2

Overall revenues up 9% YoY at constant currency to approximately $1.86 billion

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Superfan platform Sesh acquired by free music app TREBEL to build out artist services across the Americas

Sesh's technology, TREBEL said, "turns a listener into an identified fan in under a minute."

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Lawsuit accusing Drake of stream manipulation via Stake.us paused as judge orders arbitration

The ruling means the claims naming Drake will not move forward while the plaintiffs pursue their dispute with Stake in individual arbitration.

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AI and Protecting a Celebrity’s voice through Trademark

The following MBW op/ed comes from Music Attorneys Heidy Vaquerano and Cynthia Katz at Fox Rothschild.

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From Universal Music’s $3.83B quarter to Suno’s German court defeat… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest headlines from the past few days...

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Suno loses copyright infringement lawsuit brought by GEMA in Germany

AI music generator Suno has lost the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by German collecting society GEMA. The collecting society alleged that Suno used, stored and reproduced copyrighted music to train its AI tool without a license or payment to the rightsholders. Reuters reported on Friday morning (July 31) that the Munich Regional Court found Suno … Continued