WIPO members confirm Daren Tang as Director General for another six-year term
MusicBird acquires master royalty income from Supertramp’s Dougie Thomson
France’s Senate unanimously adopts the bill introducing a presumption of use of cultural content by AI providers
Bill creating a presumption of exploitation of cultural content by AI companies introduced in the French Senate
Albanese Government passes first ever orphan works legislation in Australia
Qobuz expands library through licensing partnership with Create Music Group
Kobalt and AI-powered music creation platform Udio form strategic partnership
News/Media Alliance signs opt-in AI licensing agreement with Bria
Alfons Karabuda joins the board of Servo’s parent MusicDataLabs Sweden
Symphonic inks opt-in deal for artists to access SourceAudio’s AI music dataset licensing marketplace
Secretly Distribution acquires data and analytics company Babel Ops
UBC joins SCAPR’s Virtual Recording Database (VRDB) platform
Warner Music Group acquires B2B music and data management platform Revelator
Bridger signs deals with BMI, SUISA, MCT and ABRAMUS after getting Client Rights Management Entity status from CISAC
Martin Talbot steps down as Chief Executive of the UK’s Official Charts Company
440,000 works will each receive $3,000 as part of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement
Universal Music Group settles infringement case with Believe/TuneCore
US citizen pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit music streaming fraud
Belgium’s Constitutional Court confirms video streaming services must contribute to the production of local content
Chinese court gives South Korea’s MBC a win in infringement case against Bilibili
Warner Chappell Music launches in India with Jay Mehta at the helm
PopArabia acquires Cairo-based digital distribution company Viral Wave
Jessi Alexander signs global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music Nashville and Perfect Game Creative
Warner Chappell Music signs global publishing deal with Claudia Brant
Boosey & Hawkes signs Camille Pépin to a global publishing agreement
Deezer estimates AI-generated songs represent 75,000 of daily uploads and between 1-3% of total streams
Splice rolls out a new suite of AI tools
Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to retire from the company
Jennifer Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Red Brick Songs and co-founder of Casablanca Media Publishing in Canada, has joined the Board of Directors of IMPEL the...
