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 ...

Switzerland's House of Representatives' Transport and Telecommunications Committee (TTC-N) has decided by 18 votes to 3 and 2 abstentions, to refer the draft bill concerning the introduction of a neighbouring right for news content back to the Federal Council, with the requirement that it also includes provisions for the protection of journalistic contributions to compensate from their free use by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
The Amendment to the Federal Act on Copyright and Related ...

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...