Universal Music Group In The News

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."

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.

Analysis

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

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Universal Music Group generated $3.83B in Q2, up 13.3% YoY – driven by Noah Kahan, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, and Olivia Dean

UMG published its fresh set of quarterly results on July 30

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UMG’s new releases in India will go exclusively to paid streaming subscribers for first 72 hours

Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of UMG, announced the move on the company's earnings call on Thursday (July 30).

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IFPI rolls out labels’ AI chart-eligibility rules across its global network of official music charts

IFPI has applied the framework to the charts it directly manages