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The MLC rejects Pandora's bid to use a horse racing ruling against the mechanical royalties lawsuit
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (783+ words) The Mechanical Licensing Collective has rejected Pandora's attempt to use a federal appeals court ruling on horse racing regulation to undermine the collective's authority to sue the streaming service over mechanical royalties. In a filing on Wednesday (June 24) in the…...
David Mc Ininch appointed General Manager of Soundmouse, the music cue sheet platform acquired by BMI
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (539+ words) David Mc Ininch has been named General Manager of Soundmouse, the music cue sheet platform acquired by BMI in June. He will report to BMI President and COO Todd Horvath and be based in New York City. The appointment is…...
The Ghost in the Machine Wants a Cut
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (777+ words) MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people" with something to say. The following MBW op/ed comes from Walter De Brouwer, a generative linguist by training and a co-founder, alongside Michael Ovitz, of Sound Patrol....
Anthropic, fighting lawsuits over alleged copying of song lyrics, accuses Alibaba of copying Claude to train a rival AI
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (768+ words) Anthropic has accused Alibaba of running a campaign to "illicitly" extract the capabilities of its Claude AI models. The Claude developer says operators affiliated with Alibaba and its Qwen AI lab generated more than 28. 8 million exchanges with Claude through almost…...
UAE's Music Nation joins the Human Artistry Campaign as its first Middle East signatory
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (503+ words) The UAE-based music rights organization becomes the first signatory to the campaign from the Middle East, the two said in a joint announcement on Thursday (June 25). The'Human Artistry Campaign supports AI that protects creators" rights and ensures artists, songwriters, performers,…...
Nvidia hit with US copyright suit claiming it trained AI models on Winamp subsidiary Jamendo's music without permission
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (928+ words) Jamendo, the music licensing platform owned by Belgium-headquartered Winamp Group, has filed a lawsuit in the United States against tech giant Nvidia." Jamendo accuses the chipmaker of using copyrighted music data to train two of its AI audio models, Fugatto…...
Irving Azoff's Music Artists Coalition among 31 groups warning against "misuse' of artist and songwriter rights in AI deals
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (1469+ words) A coalition of 31 organizations representing artists, songwriters and music managers has published an open letter warning the world's record labels and publishers to "stop the misuse" of creators' rights in AI deals. The letter was published on Monday (June 22) and…...
From Lionel Richie's voice trademark bid to the Michael Jackson biopic box-office record" it's MBW's Weekly Round-up
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (373+ words) This week, we learned that Lionel Richie filed to trademark the sound of his voice, joining Taylor Swift in a growing celebrity push to guard against AI deepfakes. Meanwhile, the US Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the NO FAKES Act, a…...
BMG/Concord merger approved by competition authorities in United States and Germany (report)
1+ week, 1+ day ago (531+ words) The proposed merger of BMG and Concord has been cleared by competition regulators in the United States and Germany. Germany's competition regulatory agency, the Bundeskartellamt, officially cleared the deal on Friday (June 12). Reuters reports that Bertelsmann said on Wednesday (June…...
NO FAKES: Senate panel backs bill that could cost platforms $750k per AI deepfake
1+ week, 1+ day ago (532+ words) The'US Senate Judiciary Committee'has advanced the'NO FAKES Act, the bipartisan bill that would create a federal right protecting Americans" voice and visual likeness from AI-generated deepfakes. The committee passed the bill unanimously by voice vote on'Thursday (June 18), according to'Deadline, which'noted…...