A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that rejects music industry convention regarding how the termination right in American ...

As 2025 ended and 2026 began we had the customary flurry of stats from various music industry sources, providing some ...

The European Union will this year draft a new Digital Fairness Act that seeks to “strengthen protection and digital fairness ...

Listen to every track we featured in CMU’s ‘Approved’ slot in 2025 in our Spotify playlist wrapping up all our featured ...

AI will remain a major talking point in the music industry throughout 2026. Pretty much all the big copyright questions and ...

With the Christmas break now well and truly over and forgotten, here are five key developments in the music business since ...

Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from A$AP Rocky, BIG SPECIAL, Slim Soledad, Clementaum, ...

An FT report says that Universal and Warner are close to agreeing “landmark” AI licensing deals that will result in ongoing payments to the music industry. If true, that poses some big questions ...

Universal Music has been criticised for a change it made last year to the way it pays Pandora royalties to artists, with payments now made directly by the major at contractural rates, rather than ...

Stability AI has won its copyright dispute with Getty Images in the UK courts. This began as what many saw as the landmark AI copyright case under UK law, of relevance to all rights owners, including ...

PRS has been sued for a second time by its members. Dave Rowntree previously went legal over the black box, and now Robert Fripp, the Jesus & Mary Chain and others have filed a lawsuit over the ...

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 ...