GEMA gets vindication from German court in infringement case against OpenAI over the use of lyrics to train chatbot ChatGPT
Music sector urges Kazakhstan to address the weaknesses in the country’s system of collective rights management
CISAC pledges to fight for ‘a fair and sustainable legislative environment’ to counter unregulated GenAI
Australia plans mandatory content obligations for video streaming services
Common Crawl removes over two million news articles from its database following action from Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN
Charlie Lexton named CEO of Merlin
Spotify and NMPA launch new Opt-In Portal for publishers to enter into direct license deals for expanded AV rights in the US
Getty Images signs global multi‑year licensing agreement with Perplexity
SourceAudio promotes Weston McGowen to Global Head of Catalogue Services
Musixmatch inks AI-based deals with the three major publishers to develop new analytical and non-generative AI services
Ircam Amplify joins DDEX as a member
BMAT starts partnership with Denmark’s KODA to provide data services
Nielsen joins the Copyright Alliance
GMR and SESAC join ASCAP and BMI’s database Songview offering access to data about over 38 million songs
Universal Music Group and Sony Music endorse SoundPatrol’s fingerprinting tool
US court rejects OpenAI’s motion to strike in infringement case brought by authors
Universal Music Group and Udio start ‘a new era’ of collaboration, settle copyright infringement case and sign licensing deal
Trump administration files application with US Supreme Court to confirm power to fire the Register of Copyrights
Brazil court blocks streaming manipulation services provider TurbineDigital
Gregg Nadel promoted to President of A&R at Warner Records Group
Ally Nicholas signs global recording agreement with Position Music
Dee Hale promoted to SVP, Film & TV Administration at Sony Music Publishing
Cris Lacy named Chair & President of newly rebranded Warner Records Nashville
Jeremy Vuernick appointed Executive Vice President at Atlantic Music Group
Online video growth will boost global TV and video market to reach $1 trillion by 2030
Quotes of the week — Week 42, 2025
Reykjavik, Iceland-based Overtune has closed a $2 million seed round with investment from Gabe Jagger's media company Whynow. Overtune was founded in 2020 by Sigurdur Arnason,...
