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From the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling to Primary Wave’s Kobalt deal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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From the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling to Primary Wave’s Kobalt deal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest...

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Kakao Entertainment appoints JungHee Ko as Co-CEO alongside Joseph Chang in leadership restructure

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Kakao Entertainment appoints JungHee Ko as Co-CEO alongside Joseph Chang in leadership restructure

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South Korea-headquartered Kakao Entertainment has appointed JungHee Ko as co-CEO, effective Wednesday (March 25), joining Joseph Chang,...

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‘People want fewer layers between themselves and the thing they care about.’

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‘People want fewer layers between themselves and the thing they care about.’

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The wait is over. Fourteen months after Universal first announced it was acquiring Downtown Music Holdings for...

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Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium subscribers, tracing how songs connect through shared producers, samples and covers

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Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium subscribers, tracing how songs connect through shared producers, samples and covers

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Spotify is rolling out ‘SongDNA’ — a tool that lets subscribers trace how one song connects to...

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Chance the Rapper beats Pat the Manager’s $3.8M lawsuit — but wins just $35 in countersuit

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Chance the Rapper beats Pat the Manager’s $3.8M lawsuit — but wins just $35 in countersuit

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A Chicago jury sided with Chance the Rapper in his long-running legal dispute with former manager Pat...

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Sony Music has targeted 135,000+ deepfakes of its artists’ music for removal from streaming platforms

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Sony Music has targeted 135,000+ deepfakes of its artists’ music for removal from streaming platforms

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Sony Music has asked streaming platforms to take down more than 135,000 songs it says were created...

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Warner Music Group inks exclusive Netflix deal to make artist and songwriter documentaries

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Warner Music Group inks exclusive Netflix deal to make artist and songwriter documentaries

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Warner Music Group (WMG) has signed what it calls an “exclusive multi-year first-look deal” with Netflix. Under...

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From WMG’s Netflix deal to BMG’s Anthropic lawsuit… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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From WMG’s Netflix deal to BMG’s Anthropic lawsuit… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest...

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As recorded music revenues hit $31.7B globally, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley explains the opportunities – and the threats – ahead

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As recorded music revenues hit $31.7B globally, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley explains the opportunities – and the threats – ahead

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The global music industry just crossed a symbolic threshold. Worldwide recorded music revenues reached USD $31.7 billion...

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Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty

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Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty

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The man at the center of what’s been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming...

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