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Exceleration Music acquires catalog of Japan’s Ryuichi Sakamoto in joint venture with Tokyo-based NexTone

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Exceleration Music acquires catalog of Japan’s Ryuichi Sakamoto in joint venture with Tokyo-based NexTone

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Exceleration Music and Japanese rights company NexTone have acquired the recording and publishing catalog of Ryuichi Sakamoto,...

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Michael Jackson movie overtakes ‘Oppenheimer’ as biggest biopic ever… with $1 billion in sight

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Michael Jackson movie overtakes ‘Oppenheimer’ as biggest biopic ever… with $1 billion in sight

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Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic, has become the highest-grossing biopic of all time. The film has grossed...

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Spotify rival Anghami receives take-private offer from its controlling shareholder

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Spotify rival Anghami receives take-private offer from its controlling shareholder

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Anghami, the Nasdaq-listed music and video streaming company that operates across the Middle East and North Africa,...

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Latin Music star Ricardo Montaner sues Universal Music over masters to five albums

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Latin Music star Ricardo Montaner sues Universal Music over masters to five albums

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Ricardo Montaner has taken Universal Music Group to court over who owns the master recordings of his...

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Artists First launches Music Division led by Carmen Murray

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Artists First launches Music Division led by Carmen Murray

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Talent management and production company Artists First has launched a Music Division. The new division will be...

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Viberate opens music data to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI bots via official MCP server launch – amid ‘AI-first pivot’ for analytics company

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Viberate opens music data to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI bots via official MCP server launch – amid ‘AI-first pivot’ for analytics company

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AI is changing the way music is created, licensed, and discovered. Viberate thinks it is about to...

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Primary Wave pumps $100M+ into Atticus Works, a new literary and theatrical catalog acquisition company

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Primary Wave pumps $100M+ into Atticus Works, a new literary and theatrical catalog acquisition company

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Atticus Works, a new literary and theatrical catalog acquisition company, today announced its launch in strategic partnership...

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South Korea’s FTC opens probe into HYBE and ADOR over NewJeans’ Danielle

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South Korea’s FTC opens probe into HYBE and ADOR over NewJeans’ Danielle

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South Korea‘s Fair Trade Commission has opened an investigation into HYBE and its subsidiary ADOR over the...

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Responsible AI must protect the human creativity that gives culture meaning

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Responsible AI must protect the human creativity that gives culture meaning

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MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The...

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TIDAL to automatically tag AI-generated music… and block it from earning royalties

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TIDAL to automatically tag AI-generated music… and block it from earning royalties

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TIDAL is introducing an AI policy that will automatically tag wholly AI-generated music in its app and...

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