UMG, ABKCO win copyright case against UK filmmaker over docs about The Rolling Stones, other artists
Music companies ABKCO and Universal Music Group won partial summary judgment against a UK-based documentary production company in a copyright ...
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UMG sues Anthropic for $3bn over ‘brazen’ copyright infringement of 20,000+ songs
A coalition of music publishers has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, and it’s a big ...
Spotify, Sony, Warner and UMG sue shadow library over the scraping of 86 million tracks
Back in December, Anna’s Archive attempted to “back up” Spotify, allegedly scraping the platform’s metadata and audio files in an ...
Drake appeals dismissal of ‘Not Like Us’ case against UMG, says court created a ‘dangerous’ rule for rap diss tracks
Three months ago, a federal judge dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us.Now, ...
Udio strikes AI licensing deal with Merlin after UMG and Warner Music settlements
Independent music licensing group Merlin has partnered with artificial intelligence music platform Udio to license recordings for training AI models.The ...
From Salt-N-Pepa’s dismissed UMG case to UK music streaming subscription revenues’ 3.2% growth… 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 ...
UMG and Splice team up to collaborate on ‘next generation’ AI music creation tools
Universal Music Group is teaming up with music creation platform Splice on what they call the “joint exploration of the ...
UMG and Roblox strike deal to expand commercial opportunities for artists on the gaming platform – including merch sales via Shopify
Universal Music Group and gaming platform Roblox have struck up a new strategic agreement.According to the announcement this morning (December ...
UMG submits ‘robust remedy’ to EU regulator to address ‘only remaining concern’ about $775m Downtown deal
Universal Music Group has submitted what it calls a “robust remedy” to the European Commission, following receipt of a Statement ...
UMG, Sony and Warner strike licensing deals with new AI music platform KLAY
Los Angeles-based music technology company KLAY Vision Inc. has closed separate AI licensing deals with Universal Music Group, Universal Music ...
