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A US appeals court has rejected a ‘fair use’ defense over AI training. What does it mean for the labels’ fight with Suno?
The US Court of Appeals ruled for Thomson Reuters and against AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence on September 29 Source...

Live Nation is bankrolling Creator Nation, a creator-management roll-up, with its first acquisitions due in the coming months
Alongside creator-management firms, Creator Nation will acquire and scale what Live Nation describes as "adjacent businesses". Source...

Sony Music UK hires Jack Fryer from Universal Music as President of Catalogue, Digital Media and Sync
After spending more than a decade at Universal Music in senior strategy roles, Fryer now reports to Azi Eftekhari, Sony Music UK's Chief Operating Officer. Source...

Erica Campbell’s label settles royalty lawsuit against distributor SRG/ILS Group, 15 days after suing for $1M+
The two sides settled before SRG had formally responded to the lawsuit in court, and no court has ruled on whether My Block's claims were valid. Source...

Beatport secures financing led by Square Nine Capital, refinancing existing credit facility
Beatport, the music platform for DJs and producers, has secured new financing led by Square Nine Capital. The deal refinances an existing Beatport credit facility and brings additional capital into th...

Bill Withers’ publisher sues UMG, Sony, and Kobalt, claiming Olivia Dean’s ‘I’ve Seen It’ copies ‘Just the Two of Us’
The plaintiff says its representatives came to what they considered to be the "obvious and inescapable conclusion" that Dean's song copied the Withers track. Source...

‘I would rather have 1% of a hit record than 100% of a record that wasn’t.’
Tyler Brown, founder of London-based Funfair, on hits, loyalty, and why songwriters should be taking a share of master income Source...

An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here’s the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme – and the rule change that would have killed it.
Ahead of Tuesday's sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith's bot scheme. Source...