Global record industry trade group IFPI has welcomed coordinated action by government agencies in five Latin American countries to secure web-blocks against 300+ piracy domains. IFPI says the action “ ...
Cellist Gaspar Claus makes contemporary chamber music threaded with Mediterranean folk and electronics - every sound originates from a cello, then gets stretched, processed and metamorphosed into ...
Outkast have sued Ovrkast for trademark infringement. Rapper and producer Ovrkast admitted himself in a Rolling Stone interview last year that lots of people confuse the two artist brands. A company ...
The IFPI has unveiled the latest industry scheme seeking to tackle streaming fraud called the Streaming Integrity Initiative.
New plans to finally introduce web-blocking as an anti-piracy tool in the US would specifically oblige VPNs and DNS resolvers as well as ISPs to block access to piracy sites when rightsholders secure ...
The drama continues following the axing of Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s US tour over his on-stage support for Palestine.
Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin makes warm, fuzzy indie-folk with a husky crackling alto. New single ‘If I Had The Hand Of God’ is cathartic and country-nodding. Album ‘The Gem’ - recorded above a ...
Ed Sheeran resumed his US tour without support acts this weekend, responding on stage to the controversial axing of Macklemore from the show. Elsewhere in pop politics, Zara Larson has pulled out of a ...
In June the American Federation Of Musicians sued Universal and Warner over their AI deals, insisting the majors should be sharing their AI money with the union’s members under its Sound Recording ...
Universal claims that distributor DistroKid achieved its recent $2 billion valuation by providing a pipeline for AI slop and copyright infringing music, to the detriment of artists and labels. It has ...
When America’s Fifth Circuit Appeals Court backed a songwriter-friendly interpretation of the termination right in US ...
T-Pain has sued Akon’s Konvict Entertainment in a royalties dispute. He claims he should get 75% of the $1.3 million Sony ...