A UK court has dismissed a class action lawsuit filed by Blur drummer Dave Rowntree against PRS over the collecting society’s black box distribution rules. PRS raised various issues with Rowntree’s ...

Organisations from across the creative industries, together representing millions of rightsholders and creators, have issued a joint statement strongly criticising the code of practice that has been ...

France’s Rock En Seine festival booked Kneecap to play last autumn before controversies surrounding the group and their on-stage support for Palestine went mainstream. The festival says it is standing ...

Ticketmaster is refunding fans who bought touted tickets at hiked up prices for Olivia Dean’s shows on its US platform, after she protested last week. Dean has urged other artists to challenge their ...

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 ...

Azealia Banks has pulled out of the Boomtown and Maiden Voyage festivals claiming promoters were pressuring her to express public support for Palestine. Although they were actually asking her to walk ...

Music business podcast Setlist takes a look at key events from the music industry each week Setlist is the music business podcast from CMU. Hosted by music business journalist Andy Malt and industry ...

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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 ...

The Manchester Evening News has issued an apology and paid “substantial damages” to Bob Vylan after it claimed that the punk duo had “performed Nazi salutes on stage”. That claim was made in October ...

In June, independent artist Anthony Justice sued AI company Suno for copyright infringement, following the lead of the major labels. His lawsuit made copyright claims about Suno’s training data and ...

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 ...