Kobalt Music Group In The News News Appeals court upholds Childish Gambino victory in ‘This Is America’ copyright infringement case Rapper Kidd Wes had copyrighted the sound recording, but not the composition, of his 2016 track 'Made In America' News ASCAP CEO thanks Universal, Jody Gerson for ‘hard fight’ to improve songwriters’ pay from TikTok licensing deal Elizabeth Matthews applauds UMG's stance in its dispute with ByteDance's platform Analysis News Downtown secures $500m credit agreement from Bank of America for indie artist advances “Downtown is at the center of a major shift in the music industry," said Downtown Music CEO Pieter van Rijn News Lana Del Rey named top artist-songwriter in Q4 2023 on the NMPA Gold & Platinum Program (based on RIAA certifications) Noah "40" Shebib was named the top non-performing songwriter for the quarter News Samantha Sklar promoted to Vice President of A&R at Position Music Sklar’s promotion comes on the heels of signing songwriter Jack LaFrantz, who co-penned Benson Boone’s 'Beautiful Things' Analysis Blog Music tech entrepreneurship requires more than product-market fit This op/ed comes from Vickie Nauman, Founder and CEO of LA-based boutique music tech consulting and advisory firm CrossBorderWorks News Music funding platform beatBread partners with Kobalt, AMRA to offer clients publishing administration The partnership will be particularly helpful for artists “who are currently unpublished and under-collecting their performance and mechanical revenues,” beatBread says News Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiative A new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI Prev 1 2 3 … 90 Next
News Appeals court upholds Childish Gambino victory in ‘This Is America’ copyright infringement case Rapper Kidd Wes had copyrighted the sound recording, but not the composition, of his 2016 track 'Made In America'
News ASCAP CEO thanks Universal, Jody Gerson for ‘hard fight’ to improve songwriters’ pay from TikTok licensing deal Elizabeth Matthews applauds UMG's stance in its dispute with ByteDance's platform
Analysis News Downtown secures $500m credit agreement from Bank of America for indie artist advances “Downtown is at the center of a major shift in the music industry," said Downtown Music CEO Pieter van Rijn
News Lana Del Rey named top artist-songwriter in Q4 2023 on the NMPA Gold & Platinum Program (based on RIAA certifications) Noah "40" Shebib was named the top non-performing songwriter for the quarter
News Samantha Sklar promoted to Vice President of A&R at Position Music Sklar’s promotion comes on the heels of signing songwriter Jack LaFrantz, who co-penned Benson Boone’s 'Beautiful Things'
Analysis Blog Music tech entrepreneurship requires more than product-market fit This op/ed comes from Vickie Nauman, Founder and CEO of LA-based boutique music tech consulting and advisory firm CrossBorderWorks
News Music funding platform beatBread partners with Kobalt, AMRA to offer clients publishing administration The partnership will be particularly helpful for artists “who are currently unpublished and under-collecting their performance and mechanical revenues,” beatBread says
News Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiative A new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI