peermusic and digital licensing hub ICE have renewed their multi-year partnership that will see the ICE Core platform handle online representation of the music publishers' repertoire.

peermusic has been a direct member of the ICE Core since 2018. The partnership has resulted in "significantly increasing" the company's royalties through the ICE hub, with an average Year-on-Year of more than 60%, according to the company.

Pictured (l. to r.): Ben McEwen, Chief Commercial Officer, ICE; Nig...

Gulf-based music rights organisation ESMAA is partnering with music tech company Audoo to rollout Audoo's music recognition technology, the Audio Meters, in the Middle East to accurately capture public performances. ESMAA said the partnership will "enhance management and distribution of music royalties in the region."

Abu Dhabi–based ESMAA will integrate Audoo’s Audio Meters and its insights platform into its operational framework. Audoo's technology is already deployed in the UK, Europe, Au...

European performer's organisations and independent labels have joined forces to ask the European Union to "come up urgently" with a legislative solution to address the issue of reciprocity in the payment of performance rights on sound recordings (or neighbouring rights).

The move was triggered by a 2020 decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in what is known as the "RAAP case". The CJEU ruled that rights organisations collecting neighbouring rights could not discrimi...