The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google's use of content from web publishers, as well as content uploaded on Google-owned online video-sharing platform YouTube, for artificial intelligence purposes. The probe will assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules and will "examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, or by granting itself privileged access to such conten...

beatBread, the funding platform for independent labels and musicians, unveiled that it has provided over $100 million in funding to artists and labels since it launched five years ago. beatBread was founded by Peter Sinclair, who passed earlier, to provide artists and labels with transparent, flexible financing. Over the past five years, the platform funded 1,700 creative projects in 42 countries. The music represented in these deals generated 67.6 billion all-time streams, with 13.6 billion o...

Will Hughes has joined SoundPatrol as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to SoundPatrol, Hughes worked for over six years at data company Audible Magic, most recently as VP Account Management & Customer Success. Before that he was Senior Client Partner at Songtradr. SoundPatrol is the research lab for large music models launched by former CAA co-Fonder and Chairman Michael Ovitz. At SoundPatrol, Hughes will lead "commercial strategy and help shape the product roadmap with industry partners as we s...