By Emmanuel Legrand Despite a challenging environment due to the coronavirus pandemic, US rights society BMI has closed its fiscal year ending June 30 with historic...
By Emmanuel Legrand The virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of PPL has approved the financial results of the British neighbouring rights society for 2019. During the...
By Emmanuel Legrand Australia-based Jaxsta, which operates the world's largest database of official music credits, has sealed a strategic five-year commercial agreement with Songtradr, in a...
By Emmanuel Legrand Canada's rights society SOCAN has informed its members that it anticipates an 11% drop in collections in 2020 compared to 2019's revenues, due...
By Emmanuel Legrand Facebook has made it clear that it would not abide by any Australian regulation requiring social networks to remunerate news publishers for the...
By Emmanuel Legrand The European Parliament is trying to convince the European Commission and the European Council to allocate at least 1% of the EU's EUR750...
By Emmanuel Legrand California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2257 (AB2257) into law. The Bill, which was passed unanimously by the California Senate, will...
By Emmanuel Legrand VidAngel has reached a settlement with Hollywood studios Disney and Warner Bros. after they had successfully sued the video distribution platform for copyright...
By Emmanuel Legrand Amazon-owned live gaming platform Twitch will have its livestreaming functionality integrated into Amazon Music, allowing music streaming subscribers to access livestreams and Twitch's...
By Emmanuel Legrand German media conglomerate Bertelsmann posted a slight decline in revenues during the first six months of 2020 to EUR7.8 billion, down 8.9% on...