The European Commission has reset the clock on its probe into the proposed $775 million acquisition of independent music and services company Downtown Music Holdings by the world's largest music company Universal Music Group, via its Virgin Music Group division.
The Commission had put the investigation into the merger on hold since September 2, after various parties failed to provide the EU's competition division with the data and responses it was expecting.
The Commission confirmed to Reuters ...

The Trump administration has filed on October 27 an application with the US Supreme Court to strike a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC which ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to terminate Shira Perlmutter‘s position as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office last May.
The referral of the case to the Supreme Court was expected as the Trump administration estimates that the Presiden...

The Australian creative sector has welcomed the decision from the Albanese Government to shelve the project to include in the country's copyright law a Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exception to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.
The proposal, which was supported by the tech sector, would have allowed AI companies to train large models by using Australian protected content without license or compensation. The TDM exception was part of a series of proposals from government's independent advi...