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Jose Teran sentenced to 70 months in prison for running a music royalty fraud

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The United States District Court for the District of Arizona has sentenced Jose Teran, 38, of Scottsdale, Arizona to 70 months in prison for taking part in what the prosecution described as "one of the largest music-royalty frauds ever perpetrated."
Teran and his accomplice Webster Batista run a scheme by which they claimed to own the rights to Latin music songs and collected the royalties relating to the use of these songs on YouTube.
According to the prosecution, Teran and Batista admitted to ...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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US news organisations sue OpenAI and Microsoft; Québec’s La Presse accuses OpenAI of ‘pillaging our content’

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Nine news organisations have filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Plaintiffs include California Newspapers Partnership, Prairie Mountain Publishing Company; MNG-BH Acquisition; Hartford Courant Company; The Daily Press; The Morning Call; Virginia-Pilot Media; Los Angeles Daily News Publishing Companies; and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
In the lawsuit, Plaintiffs complain that “hundreds of thousands o...

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French consumer group CLCV sues Apple for ‘abusive business practices’ related to music streaming services’ subscriptions

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French consumer group CLCV (Consumption, Housing, and Living Environment Association) has launched a class action lawsuit in the Paris Judicial Court against Apple, accusing the tech giant of "abusive business practices" with streaming services' subscriptions. Apple contends that "this lawsuit is unfounded."
For Apple, the European digital music market is "thriving and competitive, and consumers have more choices than ever before when it comes to music streaming services.”
In the lawsuit, CLCV...

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Warner Music Group settles with Suno and signs licensing partnership

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Warner Music Group has settled its copyright infringement suit against Suno, and announced a new partnership with the music AI company that will "open new frontiers in music creation, interaction, and discovery, while both compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community."
WMG said the deal "brings together Suno's best-in-class AI capabilities with WMG's artist development leadership and expertise at the intersection of music and technology." The deal appears to...

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