Amid negotiations between the EU institutions on the final shape of the Copyright Directive, rightsholders are at cross-purposes over the legislation.
The European Commission, Parliament and Council are currently ...
You want to know how annoyed the music business is with YouTube over Article 13 right now? Well, annoyed enough to bring back the term ‘value gap’ in an open ...
Since his appointment to head up UK Music 18 months ago, CEO Michael Dugher has been working to get government to recognise the needs of the music industry when it ...
As MPs prepare to vote on the government’s Brexit transition deal tomorrow (December 11), the music industry is nervously awaiting the result - and the subsequent political fallout if the ...
The latest WINTEL report has revealed that growth in the independent sector outpaced the overall market last year as the indies’ global share almost hit 40%.
The results, gathered from ...
A good maxim for life in the music business has always been that, when you’re in a hole, stop digging. YouTube, however, has decided to buy a bigger shovel.
Having ...
A handful of European music industry bodies have issued a joint statement accusing YouTube of "fact-free fear-mongering" in its campaign against Article 13.
The statement is signed by IMPALA, GESAC, ICMP, ...
A host of top execs and organisations have responded to Lyor Cohen’s strongly-worded anti-Article 13 blog. Yesterday (November 20), in a piece titled "What Article 13 could really mean", ...
Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s global head of music, has maintained the platform's anti-Article 13 agenda with a strongly worded blog post about how he believes the measures will “harm” the ...
YouTube has paid out a total of $6 billion (£4.56bn) in advertising revenues to the music industry, according to new figures from parent Google.
The How Google Fights Piracy report ...
