*Music Industry Insight
The Hipgnosis vs Hipgnosis war of words continues with Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management firing out briefing memos and counter-briefing memos at an increasingly frantic rate. In the…
DEALS 🦉 Santa Anna Label Group has invested in and formed a new partnership with OVO Sound, which is Drake, Mr Morgan, Noah ‘40’ Shehib and Oliver El-Khatib’s record label.…
Bonus applies at a catalogue level not track level For many artists and labels this will mean at a distributor level Money for 10% bonus taken out of royalty pool…
DEALS 🌐 Sharon Van Etten has signed a new worldwide publishing deal with Warner Chappell. “We’re THRILLED to welcome Sharon Van Etten to Warner Chappell Music”, says SVP Creative Services…
AI company Anthropic last week formally set out a fair use defence in its legal battle with three music publishers, stating that using lyrics “to train an AI model, particularly…
Berlin-based live entertainment group DEAG has announced that it will re-list its shares on the Frankfurt stock exchange in the first quarter of this year, “subject to market conditions”. Speaking…
This week: Hipgnosis war of words ramps up; Apple’s “outrageous” payment changes have not pleased Epic or Spotify; posh lads mag GQ swallows Pitchfork; certification for ‘fairly trained’ AI; Council…
On this week’s show we discuss the new new certification for “respectful” generative AI companies that get permission before training their models on copyrighted content, redundancies at Pitchfork as its…
Yesterday, Thursday 18 Jan, Hipgnosis Songs Fund – the London Stock Exchange-listed song rights investment company – circulated a proposal by its board to make a significant amendment to the…
DEALS 🖊️ Rimas Publishing has signed a deal with catalogue management software company Reprtoir. Rimas MD Emilio Morales says that “Reprtoir’s innovative platform is a game-changer for our operations and…