News Majors and BMG ask US Supreme Court to overturn copyright termination ruling they say will cause ‘chaos’ The rightsholders said the decision will cause "chaos" across the music business if it is allowed to stand.
News MF Doom estate and Temu reach settlement in lawsuit over alleged knock-off merch The plaintiff, Gas Drawls, LLC, owns the rights to MF Doom's music and intellectual property
News Tech startup RTM Audio launches AI music detector UAI, which issues a signed certificate with every verdict RTM Audio was founded by mixing and mastering engineers Ohad Nissim, Teezio, and Calin Enache, alongside music attorney Matt Buser
News Spotify opens Istanbul office as Turkish music tops 294 billion all-time streams on the platform Spotify says streams of Turkish music on its platform have grown over 190% in five years
News Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition among 31 groups warning against ‘misuse’ of artist and songwriter rights in AI deals Orgs representing artists, songwriters and music managers issue open letter over AI deals
Analysis News From Lionel Richie’s voice trademark bid to the Michael Jackson biopic box-office record… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
News Major labels in Canada win site-blocking order targeting stream-ripping platforms – a first for the country’s music industry ISPs are ordered to block stream-ripping domains including Y2mate.ws, YTmp3.lat, Savefrom.space, and Spowload.cc.
News Japan passes copyright reform giving performers and record companies royalties when recordings play in public, including overseas Until now, only songwriters, composers and music publishers were paid when their music was played as background music in Japanese venues.
News Motion Agency launches pan-European commercial radio promotion service, appoints Nick Bray as Head of Radio Motion's first campaign under Bray's direction is the radio promotion of Jorja Smith's single, 'What's Done Is Done'
News Adam Tiran named General Manager of Warner Music’s Africori as founder Yoel Kenan steps down as CEO WMG was fully acquired Africori in 2025
News Elon Musk’s X moves to dismiss music publishers’ $250M+ copyright lawsuit, arguing Supreme Court’s Cox ruling ‘forecloses’ the case The motion is the latest development in a copyright battle that dates back to June 2023
News NO FAKES: Senate panel backs bill that could cost platforms $750k per AI deepfake The US Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the NO FAKES Act
News Spotify’s ‘Reserved’ ticketing feature launches in the US today under a multi-year Live Nation deal, starting with indie-pop artist Role Model Eligible Spotify subscribers will begin receiving notifications that two tour tickets have been set aside for them, with a purchasing window opening on June 23.
News South Korea launches $2.2M fund to help indie K-Pop agencies expand overseas Each selected agency will receive up to 300 million won ($197,000) annually for up to three years.
News Meta moves to dismiss Wixen’s $102M lawsuit, says publisher is ‘seeking to transform a routine licensing dispute’ into a ‘sweeping’ legal battle The motion targets Wixen's first amended complaint, which lists 681 works and seeks more than $102 million in statutory damages.
News CISAC launches AVR+ to modernize how music in film and TV is tracked – and paid for The format is built on the Global Cue Sheet Standard 2.0 and turns that standard into a practical, implementation-ready tool for the first time.
Analysis News A landmark bill targeting AI deepfakes faces a US Senate Judiciary Committee vote on June 18. Five things to know about the NO FAKES Act. The bill would create, for the first time in US federal law, an intellectual property right in a person's voice and visual likeness.
News Copyright lawsuit against Meta over Eminem songs to proceed on direct infringement claim – with up to $109M at stake A federal judge has narrowed the copyright lawsuit that Eight Mile Style filed against Meta Platforms