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Elvis Presley Enterprises is putting Tennessee’s ELVIS Act to the test in its voice-imitation lawsuit against Suno
Elvis Presley Enterprises sued Suno in California on Friday (November 6) Source...

‘Public markets are pricing the quarter, not the catalog.’
Truist Securities Head of Entertainment Investment Banking, CJ Johnson, on why catalog deals keep stalling, what consolidation does to the market, and where capital is quietly moving beyond publishing...

DistroKid launches music publishing service powered by Kobalt
To qualify, songwriters and artists need at least one release on DistroKid and more than $50 in streaming revenue over the past 12 months. Source...

RZA invests in AYO Music Group, the music copyright administrator co-founded by Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Pär Almqvist
He joins Disturbing Tha Peace Records co-founders Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, Atlanta- and Johannesburg-based family office CIH Group, and Ewing Athletics owner David Goldberg as investors in the compa...

Yahoo Scout: What Pivot Search Means for Publisher Traffic
Yahoo Scout left beta November 10 after more than 3 billion answers. See what Pivot Search, Yahoo's 2.54% US share and 7 smart moves mean for publishers....

Diplo and former Downtown CEO Andrew Bergman launch independent publisher Bison Music
Bergman is CEO of Bison, alongside COO Tom Lee, CCO Juba Lee, and General Manager Jenny Ilibassi. Source...

TikTok’s SoundOn strikes ‘landmark’ deal to distribute Daddy Yankee’s ‘La Postal’ album, in what it calls its ‘biggest artist partnership to date’
TikTok is backing the album with a global campaign, including a Times Square billboard. Source...

Too Lost signs Dubai-based Afterpeak, home to 25,000+ releases, to exclusive distribution deal with ‘multi-seven-figure’ financing
Founded in 2020 by CEO Avery Chauhan, Afterpeak says its catalog of originals, covers, and reworks has generated more than 3 billion Spotify streams. Source...

D.C. asks court to reject SeatGeek and Vivid Seats’ bid to block 10% ticket resale cap, says platforms want a ‘judicial veto’
DC argues that the resale platforms "dressed their policy objections up in constitutional garb and turned to this Court for a judicial veto." Source...

Samsung’s Harman launches Drops, a TikTok-style music discovery app, with Universal, Beggars and EMPIRE among its partners
The app lets users listen to song clips lasting between 10 and 30 seconds, shared by friends and tastemakers on the platform. Source...