The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has demanded that Spotify remove what it says is unlicensed material from the platform, or face legal action.
Music Week has obtained the letter ...
UK Music chief executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin has welcomed the Intellectual Property minister’s announcement that he plans to scrap the introduction of the government’s broad copyright exception for text and data ...
Ed Sheeran has spoken out about the litigious culture for hitmakers in the wake of the copyright battle over his 2017 hit Shape of You. Bray & Krais Solicitors ...
A year on from his appointment, Warner Music UK CEO Tony Harlow appeared before MPs on the DCMS Committee’s streaming inquiry last month.For anyone who didn’t tune ...
The United States and United Kingdom have concluded the first round of negotiations on a trade deal.
Welcoming the progress, Mitch Glazier, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry ...
Well, that was a waste of time and effort.
Or, at least, that’s what the music business executives and artists who campaigned tirelessly for the European Copyright Directive could have ...
Robert Ashcroft has told Music Week that PRS For Music is enjoying a burst of “new energy” now that Andrea Martin is in the hot seat.
Ashcroft bowed out last ...
A court has ruled that Katy Perry copied her 2013 song Dark Horse from the Christian rap song Joyful Noise by Flame (Marcus Tyrone Gray).
Perry’s team argued that the ...
There are some huge music business anniversaries this year, but few more significant than PPL’s 85th birthday.
The collection society, which licenses sound recordings for broadcast and public performance ...
European indies body IMPALA heads over 200 organisations from across the creative sector in urging MEPs to vote in favour of the new Copyright Directive, as the long-running legislative saga ...
