Merlin, the digital music licensing agency for independent labels and distributors, has announced its new Board of Directors, which includes a mix of new and returning members from the independent music industry in 12 different countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania. Beggars Group and Merlin founder Martin Mills will continue to serve as a Director of Merlin Network, the organisation’s parent entity, alongside Darius Van Arman, who continues as Merlin C...

Sync and music-rights platform SourceAudio has signed a long-term AI dataset licensing partnership with music production software and hardware Native Instruments.  Through the partnership, SourceAudio will provide Native Instruments with access to "a fully cleared audio dataset to support ongoing research and product innovation, enabling new ways for musicians, producers, and composers to work more efficiently, stay in creative flow, and maintain full artistic control." SourceAudio’s rights-clea...

British rights society PRS for Music and the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) have unveiled a new licensing model to support the launch of Apple Fitness+ in India. The new initiative marks "a significant step forward in how digital music rights are licensed and royalties are paid to rightsholders," according to a statement from the two companies. Under the new agreement, IPRS will act as the home territory society responsible for licensing, while PRS for Music will utilise its cloud-based ...