Rapper Plies Sues Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla Over Soulja Boy Sample Used In ‘Wanna Be’
The lawsuit is the latest in a string of cases to claim that a legally-cleared sample featured uncleared materials from an earlier song.
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Read more: Rapper Plies Sues Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla Over Soulja Boy Sample Used In ‘Wanna Be’
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SESAC Performance License Rates See 10.4% Increase for 2023-2026 Licensing Period
Read more: SESAC Performance License Rates See 10.4% Increase for 2023-2026 Licensing PeriodThe rate decision, which comes after an arbitration process, is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2023.
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Why TikTok’s Decision to Sideline Merlin Hurts Music Culture (Guest Column)
Read more: Why TikTok’s Decision to Sideline Merlin Hurts Music Culture (Guest Column)The platform’s refusal to work with Merlin on licensing deals sets a “dangerous precedent” for independent artists and their labels, writes A2IM’s Richard James Burgess.
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Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models
Read more: Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its modelsOpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, announced Monday, OpenAI’s models, includ…
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OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivals
Read more: OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivalsOpenAI’s legal battle with The New York Times over data to train its AI models might still be brewing. But OpenAI’s forging ahead on deals with other publishers, including some of France’s and Spain’s largest news publishers. Op…
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Is the Music Business Out of Synch With Game Developers?
Read more: Is the Music Business Out of Synch With Game Developers?Labels and publishers want their songs in video games, but their licensing agreements are often an obstacle.
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Sharon Osbourne Explains Why Ozzy Turned Down Kanye’s Sample Request
Read more: Sharon Osbourne Explains Why Ozzy Turned Down Kanye’s Sample Request“We get so many requests for these songs, and when we saw that request, we just said no way,” she tells Billboard.
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UMG’s TikTok Licensing Feud: Music Industry Reactions (Updating)
Read more: UMG’s TikTok Licensing Feud: Music Industry Reactions (Updating)As the music giant’s catalog leaves TikTok, other music businesses and organizations are offering their takes on the unfolding situation.
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UMG Responds to TikTok, Calling Its Views on Artist and Writer Compensation ‘Woefully Outdated’
Read more: UMG Responds to TikTok, Calling Its Views on Artist and Writer Compensation ‘Woefully Outdated’As works from UMG signees like Taylor Swift, BTS and Drake are being removed from TikTok due to a licensing dispute, the company fires back at the video app.
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Catch+Release is building an AI-powered search engine to help brands license user-generated content
Read more: Catch+Release is building an AI-powered search engine to help brands license user-generated contentCompanies seeking images or videos for their materials materials will typically commission a shoot, or scour stock media catalogs. Catch+Release, however, wants to help marketers license existing user-generated content, and the eight-year-old startup is setting out to build an AI-powered search engine to help brands do just that. Catch+Release — founded out of San Francisco…
