Independent music publishers' organisations IMPF and AIMP organised a joint webinar on January 12 titled 'The State Of The Music Publishing Industry Post-Covid. How Are We...
By Emmanuel Legrand China's leading music streaming platform Tencent Music Entertainment has entered into an agreement to acquire audiobook platform Lazy Audio, owned by Shenzhen Lanren...
Sony Music Group (SMG) has become the first music company to support Nashville, TN-based National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) ahead of its opening on...
USA Primary Wave Music has appointed Natalia Nastaskin(pictured, below) as Chief Content Officer, effective Feb. 1. She reports to the independent publishing and talent management company's...
By Emmanuel Legrand A US District Court judge in Virginia upheld a $1 billion award in the copyright infringement case against Cox Communications. A court found...
By Emmanuel Legrand Music streaming consumption has reached record numbers in 2020, with total audio streaming consumption up 22.6% globally to 2.2 trillion streams, up from...
By Emmanuel Legrand US singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman has accepted the $450,000 settlement proposal offered by rapper Nicki Minaj for the use of Chapman's song 'Baby Can...
By Emmanuel Legrand TikTok has now two licensing deals in place with major record companies, following the agreement signed by the short video platform with Warner...
By Emmanuel Legrand Content identification specialist Audible Magic has acquired content fulfillment and rights administration company MediaNet from Canada's rights society SOCAN. Terms of the agreement...
By Emmanuel Legrand It was another busy week for Hipgnosis Songs Fund with the acquisition of 50% of Neil Young's worldwide copyright and income interests in...