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Warner Music Group’s Paul Robinson to receive 2025 Entertainment Law Initiative Service Award during Grammy Week
Paul Robinson, Warner Music Group’s EVP/General Counsel, will be awarded the 2025 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Service Award, the Recording...
Emerging markets-focused label Heatwave strikes publishing joint venture with Kobalt
Heatwave, a London-based label that aims to sign artists from emerging markets, has formed a joint venture publishing agreement with...
The CEO of Getty Images just delivered a public smackdown to AI copyright thievery
Here’s a prediction for 2025: There will be even more lawsuits over the unlicensed use of content to train AI...
!K7 Music founder and CEO Horst Weidenmüller honored by IMPALA for Outstanding Contribution to the European independent music sector
Horst Weidenmüller, CEO and founder of !K7 Music, has been named as the recipient of IMPALA’s Outstanding Contribution award.IMPALA says...
From ADOR’s NewJeans lawsuit to the biggest music deals of 2024… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines...
TikTok rival Triller sued over alleged non-payment of $35.5m debt
The parent company of TikTok rival Triller, which debuted as a publicly traded firm in October, has been sued by...
Daniel Ek cashes out another $37m in Spotify stock, bringing total value of shares sold this year to nearly $320m
Last week, MBW reported that key Spotify executives have sold some $1.16 billion in company stock so far this year...
Inside Sony Music Publishing’s flagship creative hub for songwriters in Los Angeles
Sony Music Publishing has opened a new office space and creative hub for songwriters in Los Angeles.Located in Hollywood’s historic...
HYBE’s ADOR files lawsuit over NewJeans deal dispute, says K-Pop group’s exclusive contract ‘cannot be unilaterally terminated’
ADOR, a subsidiary of K-pop powerhouse HYBE, has filed a lawsuit to prevent girl group NewJeans from terminating their exclusive...
The 21 biggest music business deals of 2024
As the value of music companies and copyrights continues to grow, so do the deals being made in the industry...
