US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for Chinese company ByteDance to "immediately shut down" its AI-powered video-generation tool Seedance 2.0 and "implement meaningful safeguards to prevent further infringing outputs." The two policy-makers made this request to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in a letter seen by CNBC. They describe Seedance as "the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a ByteDance product to date" due to its ability to generate videos copying existin...

Spotify earned for another year the status of "highest-paying retailer globally" with over $11 billion distributed to rights owners in 2025, up by more than 10% year-over-year, according to the streaming services' latest Loud&Clear posting. Spotify accounts for about 30% of global recorded music revenue, up from less than 15% in 2017.

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Since its launch in 2006, the Swedish platform has paid out nearly $70bn to rights holders. Spotify claims that these payouts "aren’t conc...

Swedish composer Alfons Karabuda has joined the board of MusicDataLabs Sweden, the company behind Servo.music, the synch licensing platform created by Max Flach and Greger Hagelin. Karabuda is the Honorary President of the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), Chair of the Polar Music Prize Award Committee, and former President of the International Music Council and music rights society Skap. “As much as I enjoy speaking my mind, words alone have only ever interested me when they lea...