Independent music company Primary Wave Music has made a strategic investment in music financing platform RUN. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. This funding from Primary Wave is the platform's first institutional investment since launching in 2023. The new funds will allow RUN "to target advance opportunities for both developing and established artists, producers, songwriters and other creators with proven track records for up to $25 million per transaction." Founded by Dieg...

Richard James Burgess, the former CEO of trade organisation A2IM and current Chair of the UK’s neighbouring rights society PPL, and his son Ace Burgess have officially launched two new companies, AudioNumber and Interline Media Group, described as "two complementary ventures that bring sophisticated data intelligence to music rights valuation and publishing administration." Richard James Burgess will serve as Chairman of both companies, and Ace Burgess as President and CEO. He was most recently...

The US Copyright Office has released an updated version of its copyright registration and recordations bulk dataset, which contains approximately 22 million copyright registration records and 15 million other records from January 1, 1978, to June 27, 2025. This is the first major update since the Office initially released bulk data on over forty years of copyright registrations and other records in 2022, which contained information on approximately 20 million copyright registration records from...