The plaintiff says its representatives came to what they considered to be the "obvious and inescapable conclusion" that Dean's song copied the Withers track.
Ahead of Tuesday's sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith's bot scheme.
Nici Ochmann joins Warner Music (WM) Central Europe after a 10-year tenure at Adidas, where she most recently served as Global Culture Marketing Cluster Lead for GSA.
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According to TikTok, the band is the first Japanese artist to be selected for one of the platform's artist-specific global campaigns, which it runs with top artists worldwide.