The State Agency for Intellectual Property (AGEPI) from the Republic of Moldova has suspended the activities of collective management organisation AUTORITY, effective from June 11, 2026 for a period of six months. AUTORITY was initially approved as a collective management organisation for the management of copyright in musical and audiovisual works by the AGEPI on March 6, 2023. AGEPI recently conducted an audit of organisation and found some "irregularities."

Following the audit, AGEPI requ...

Germany's competition regulator Bundeskartellamt has cleared the merger of Bertelsmann's music division BMG with Great Mountain Partners-backed music company Concord. The authority ruled that despite being of a significant scale, the merged company will face competition from even larger companies. In its assessment the authority said it took particular account of "the growing importance of the catalogue business, which is expanding especially due to the new digital distribution channels associat...

Yoon Seong-cheon, the former Head of the Cultural and Arts Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), has been appointed for a three-year term as Director of the Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCOPA), the government agency created in 2016 "to promote copyright protection, prevent infringement, and support cultural and creative business development." He replaces Park Jung-youl who was appointed in 2022. "The Korea Copyright Protection Agency must innovate as the fro...