The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has issued a mid-year report showing retail revenues up to $3.98 billion (£2.95 billion), a 17% increase on a year ago. Paid subscription ...
A leading YouTube ripping site is to shut down after agreeing a settlement with the RIAA.
Last year record labels took legal action against YouTube-MP3.org, the world’s largest site dedicated ...
It starts like a Prince song: It’s been four years, six months and 10 days…
But, while Prince may remain a star of Warner Music Group’s catalogue after a recent ...
The Recording Industry Association of America has responded strongly to YouTube’s head of music, Lyor Cohen, who took to the company blog to post his thoughts on the ad-supported streaming ...
Recorded music industry association IFPI has appointed John Blewett as its director of communication.
Blewett takes up his role immediately and will be based at IFPI’s London office. He will deliver ...
Music publishing bodies IFPI and ICMP have welcomed the Supreme Court Of Canada's new ruling concerning search engines and illegal websites.
A judgment has been issued confirming that Canadian courts ...
In the week of the Ivors, where we celebrate so much talent and creativity, we are reminded that there is no song without a songwriter.
With the global recorded music ...
A new Google-commissioned report has come under fire from the BPI and IFPI, after it claimed that YouTube is not having an adverse effect on the music business.
The new ...
There are now three certainties in life: death, taxes and that the IFPI will use the annual publication of its global music report to bang on about the so-called ‘value ...
