The pressure continues to mount on Spotify, Amazon, Google and Pandora over their appeals against the proposed US Copyright Board royalty rises for songwriters and publishers.
Their stance has ...
The publishing and songwriting community has already voiced its outrage over efforts by Spotify and other streaming services to overturn increases in US royalty rates. Now one of the ...
European indies body IMPALA heads over 200 organisations from across the creative sector in urging MEPs to vote in favour of the new Copyright Directive, as the long-running legislative saga ...
Kent Walker, Google’s chief legal counsel, has called on European lawmakers to address the online giant’s concerns about the Copyright Directive.
The copyright reform proposals have passed key stages ...
You want to know how annoyed the music business is with YouTube over Article 13 right now? Well, annoyed enough to bring back the term ‘value gap’ in an open ...
YouTube has paid out a total of $6 billion (£4.56bn) in advertising revenues to the music industry, according to new figures from parent Google.
The How Google Fights Piracy report ...
UK Music has broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget, but called for reassurances on areas affecting the industry including business rates, licensing and support for music in schools.
One of the ...
The music business has been loudly celebrating today’s European Parliament vote in favour of the new Copyright Directive, including the controversial Article 13, which will see internet platforms become ...
This week’s Copyright Directive vote by MEPs represents the biz’s biggest opportunity yet to finally get YouTube and other user generated content sites on a level playing field with audio ...
A coalition of anti-ticket abuse campaigners has written to Google to demand action on Viagogo's ability to dominate ticket searches through paid advertising.
The open letter by the All Party ...
