The UK's Performing Right Society has appointed Dobs Vye, Emily Phillips, Simon Anderson and Ross Greening as new Directors to its Members’ Council at its Annual...
Sony Music Group, through its music publishing division Sony Music Publishing, has acquired the complete music rights portfolio of Recognition Music Group, formerly known as Hipgnosis,...
2026 MAY 2026 – May 11-14: Music Biz 2026 organised by the Music Business Association in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly. – May 13-16: The Great Escape in Brighton, England....
These are the main stories published by Creative Industries News in the past week: COPYRIGHT & REGULATION> IMPALA calls for a coordinated EU industrial strategy for culture...
USA Kobalt's Leslie Ahrens Independent music publisher Kobalt has promoted Leslie Ahrens to the position of Managing Director and Executive Vice President, Creative, Latin America, taking...
These are some of the main music deals announced in the past weeks: Bertlelsmann‘s music division BMG and Great Mountain Partners-backed independent music company Concord will merge their operations to create...
"This is the first case by major publishers working together across sectors, in the AI infringement space, and it stands to tell a clear and powerful...
$725 billion That's how much Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft collectively plan to spend in capital expenditures in 2026, mostly on AI infrastructure such as data...
European independent labels' organisation IMPALA has urged the European Union to adopt a coordinated EU cultural industrial strategy "to unlock the full potential of Europe’s cultural...
Book publishing houses Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishing Group and McGraw Hill, alongside author Scott Turow, have filed a putative class action lawsuit...
