Analysis The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We’re At The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham
News US Register of Copyrights continues The MLC’s designation as the statutory Mechanical Licensing Collective – as total royalties distributed to songwriters and publishers near $4B The Register originally designated The MLC in July 2019
News Seeker Music acquires the publishing catalog of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde The deal covers Raymonde's body of work as a member of the Scottish band, including his co-writes on the 1990 album Heaven or Las Vegas.
News Grammy-winner Youssou N’Dour named Vice President of CISAC as global rights org marks 100 years N'Dour succeeds outgoing Vice Presidents Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a South African singer and songwriter, and Arturo Márquez, a Mexican composer.
News After Suno, Udio asks court to seal the size of its AI training data in Sony Music’s copyright case, also citing ‘competitive harm’ Udio argues that competitors could use the figure to build rival products faster and more cheaply.
Interviews From Kobalt to Pipeline: meet the $5 billion financier rewiring indie music capital Matt Spetzler is a private equity veteran who fell in love with the music business. Now, through Jamen Capital and Pipeline, he’s changing how independent rightsholders raise capital – while helping them keep ownership of their companies...
News Garth Brooks seeking up to $2bn for his music catalog (report) The WSJ reports that the artist believes the value of his music rights could fall 'anywhere from the high $1 billion range to more than $2 billion.'
Analysis The music industry doesn’t have a streaming problem. It has a customer ownership problem. The following MBW op/ed comes from Deviate Digital founder Sammy Andrews...
News SoundExchange and IFPI introduce automatic ISRC assignment for individual recordings The new system is designed to reduce administrative steps for small labels and self-releasing artists that do not own and manage large catalogs.
News GoDigital Music launches Nashville country imprint Orinda under General Manager Cooper Lycan Orinda signs Nic D as its first artist
News 2 Live Crew can’t take back their recorded music copyrights after all, appeals court rules A US federal appeals court has overturned 2 Live Crew's high-profile victory in their long-running copyright fight
News ‘Blurred Lines’ copyright lawyer Richard Busch joins law firm Adams & Reese as Special Counsel Drew Davis and David Niemierzycki will also join Busch in the firm's Nashville office, serving on the Global Intellectual Property team.
News Concord Music Publishing ANZ acquires interest in catalog of The Presets co-founder Julian Hamilton Concord has also signed Hamilton to a new publishing deal covering future works.
News Havas, led by Yannick Bolloré, launches label via UMG’s Virgin Music Group Virgin Music Group will handle VOLYUM's global distribution.
News Suno moves to keep size of its AI training data sealed in UMG and Sony’s copyright case, citing ‘competitive harm’ Suno CTO Georg Kucsko argued that if rivals obtain access to Suno's model, this could allow them to benchmark their own systems against that of Suno.
News Anthropic confidentially files for IPO – days after $65B raise pushed AI firm’s valuation to $965B Anthropic said the proposed IPO will depend on market conditions and other factors.
News Apple Music code spotted in Android app beta hints at new subscription tiers with Spotify-style skip limits (report) The code strings were discovered in the beta version of the Apple Music app for Android by tech analyst Aaron Perris.
News Emma Robinson upped to VP, Partnerships at Merlin amid series of senior promotions Merlin has also promoted four additional members of its Partnerships team: Shannon Bradley, Alice Moss, Daniele Yandel, and Simon Marcel.