Earlier this year DSW Shoe Warehouse filed a lawsuit against Sony Music asking a judge to rule it didn’t infringe the major’s copyrights by putting pop music into its TikTok videos. That sneakily ...

Budweiser, the king of carbonated disappointment in a can, is proud that it’s found an apparent loophole that means it doesn’t need to pay for “music right$” when harnessing “the most iconic songs in ...

Universal Music has proposed a remedy to allay the European Commission’s concerns over its bid to buy Downtown Music. That may involve the major proposing to sell off Downtown’s Curve business. But ...

The majors have amended their Suno lawsuit, alleging that the AI company sourced music by illegally ripping files from YouTube. It follows the ruling in the authors v Anthropic case, where Anthropic’s ...

Acopia’s third album hums with restraint. Suspending glimpses of strings amid echoing, choir-like synth arrangement, it’s introspective without being precious. It’s lush, shoegazy and basks in the ...

Ultra Music Publishing will have to change its name after losing a trademark legal battle with Sony Music, which owns the Ultra trademark as owner of the Ultra Records label - previously a sister ...

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Recent lawsuits highlight the complex copyright issues faced by labels and producers where multiple people are involved in the production of a track, with a number of clashes over unauthorised use of ...

Kneecap are suing Vince Gasparro, the Canadian MP who announced they were banned from the country in September. The group confirmed legal action was underway after it emerged the Canadian government ...

What do we mean by music data? There are different categories of data that are important in the music business - and when different people talk about music data they might be using the term "music ...

French collecting society SACEM has signed up to Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ approach to paying royalties, which disadvantages tracks released by artists who fail to meet certain thresholds. That system ...

CMU takes a look back at some of the funniest, most ridiculous, or downright strange stories from 2023's music business. Each day in our email newsletter CMU Daily we round off our news summary with ...