Music Business News: United Kingdom

UK’s House of Lords votes to strengthen copyright protections in AI, dealing blow to government’s plans

The House of Lords voted 145 to 126 in favor of amendments to a bill in a bid to strengthen copyright protections in AI development

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Guitar amp maker Marshall acquired by China’s HongShan in $1bn+ deal

Marshall's new owner is an investor in Alibaba, BYD, and TikTok owner ByteDance

Analysis

Mark Douglas on the rising importance of the International Performer Number: ‘We strive to remove cost from the wider industry and sharing metadata and systems is one way we do that.’

The following op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, CIO of UK-based music licensing company, PPL.

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UK-based Melody Rights launches new rights management and distro platform

Melody Rights says that its distribution network includes access to what it calls 'top-tier platforms in stock music, gaming, and social music categories'

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DICE sells electronic music platform Boiler Room to live giant Superstruct, which was acquired by KKR in a $1.4bn deal in 2024

DICE acquired the UK's Boiler Room, an electronic music-centric livestream platform, in 2021

Interviews News

Ditto hails ‘extraordinary growth’ amid global expansion as firm surpasses 2m registered artists

Ditto hit the 1 million user mark in July 2023

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UK’s plan to make copyright law more AI-friendly raises concerns

Reforms to laws on data mining and scraping could could trigger 'a US tech-led heist of UK copyrighted works'

Interviews

‘Once they opened the door a little bit, I would just kick it in and go for it.’

The latest product of MBW's partnership with the brilliant Did Ya Know? podcast sees Adrian Sykes talk to the ground-breaking Lorna Clarke, Director of Music at the BBC...