By Emmanuel Legrand Hip-hop streaming platform Spinrilla was held liable for infringing the copyrights of 4,082 sound recordings by the District Court for the Northern District...
By Emmanuel Legrand Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the company launched by Merck Mercuriadis to invest in music assets, had deployed approximately ?1.18 billion (EUR1.30bn) in total since...
By Emmanuel Legrand Music licensing service Soundstripe has signed a deal with Waymark that will grant the video creation platform access to Soundstripe's Enterprise API. The...
A report commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate for Culture and Creativity has concluded that a European Music Observatory would be a significant tool to help...
By Emmanuel Legrand A coalition of American music industry organisation has sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to pass legislation to provide "additional relief...
By Emmanuel Legrand ViacomCBS has sold book publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann's publishing unit Penguin Random House, in a $2.175 billion deal that will create...
By Emmanuel Legrand The music sector contributed EUR81.9 billion in 2018 to the economy across the 27 EU Member States and the UK (EU28), according to...
By Emmanuel Legrand The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) has accused Spotify of showing a "profound disrespect to the community of creators who struggle to...
By Emmanuel Legrand In part 2 of the interview with Merck Mercuriadis, we discuss his vision for Hipgnosis, the company he founded less than three years...
Merck Mercuriadis (Photo: Jill Furmanovsky) A few weeks ago, when asked if he was interested in assets from Kobalt, Merck Mercuriadis responded with a smile. Earlier...
