By Emmanuel Legrand Short-form mobile video app TikTok has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Dutch collecting society BUMA/STEMRA. This is the first of such deal...
By Emmanuel Legrand Australia's music rights society APRA AMCOS has reported A$474.5 million (EUR286.6 million) in revenues for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, slightly downgraded from original...
By Emmanuel Legrand Round Hill Music, a New York-based private equity firm investing music copyright assets, has outlined plans to be listed on the London Stock...
By Emmanuel Legrand Spotify has unveiled a new tool that will allow the use of music in podcasts, in order to provide, as the music streaming...
By Emmanuel Legrand BMG's initiative to eliminate what is known as the "controlled composition" clause in its US recording contracts could lead to radical changes in...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Committee on the Judiciary of the US House of Representatives has called for tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook...
By Emmanuel Legrand US independent music publishing company peermusic has become overnight one of the leading independent neighbouring rights companies in the world with the acquisition...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case involving Led Zeppelin's song 'Stairway To Heaven' in a copyright infringement case that was...
By Emmanuel Legrand Napster parent company Rhapsody and RecoChoku, an affiliate of independent music company Avex, have reached an agreement to add the Powered by Napster...
By Emmanuel Legrand US entertainment union SAG-AFTRA, which manages on behalf of its members residuals payments, has been switching gradually to a direct-payment system with payment-processing...