New York-based independent label Rebellion Records has secured a strategic seven-figure partnership with music technology company Too Lost, in a deal that deal that combines "significant" capital investment with access to Too Lost’s technology. The funding and technology will help "accelerate Rebellion’s rapid artist development model."
"Since launching just two years ago, Rebellion has generated over 5 billion streams and nearly eight figures in revenue by placing user-generated social engagem...

Arif Mahmud has been promoted to the role of General Counsel and SVP of Global Business Affairs at Sony Music-owned distributor for the independent sector AWAL. Based in London, he will continue to report to AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick.
Mahmud joined AWAL as VP, Business Affairs (UK) in February 2017 after several years as General Manager and General Counsel at the management and entertainment company Three Six Zero. He became SVP, Business Affairs (UK) in 2018, and was promoted to SVP, Global Busine...

Members of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee have received from a coalition of 13 organisations representing hundreds of thousands of creators from all over Europe a list of key priorities and recommendations to answer authors, performers, and other creative workers' concerns about AI and generative AI.
In a letter to MEPs, the organisations address what they perceive as shortcomings in the recent JURI draft report 'Copyright and generative AI – opportunities and challenge...