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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the new private members bill proposed by MP Kevin Brennan to change UK copyright law to provide musicians with guaranteed income when their music is streamed, and Sony Music’s announcement that it will start paying royalties to unrecouped artists on 20th century record contracts.

SECTION TIMES
01: Private members bill (00:5:23)
02: Sony Music (00:24:24)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Kevin Brennan MP proposes “a new right to fair remuneration” from streaming for musicians in private members bill
• Artist and management community welcome Sony Music’s decision to pay royalties to artists on unrecouped pre-2000 record deals

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• With lifting of COVID restrictions set to be delayed, live sector calls for more data and financial support

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the $200 million lawsuit against Roblox from a consortium of music publishers led by the US National Music Publishers Association, plus Brexit negotiator David Frost’s big no-show at a parliamentary inquiry into how the UK-EU trade deal messed things up so badly for touring musicians and what, if anything, is being done about it. 

SECTION TIMES
01: Roblox (00:3:36)
02: Brexit (00:15:90)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Music publishers sue Roblox for $200 million, pile more pressure on Twitch
• UK’s Brexit negotiator criticised over no-show at Parliamentary session on the bureaucratic barriers faced by touring musicians
• Culture Secretary mocked over “ambitious” visa-free touring agreement with Liechtenstein

ALSO MENTIONED
• Live industry warns against delayed reopening, calls on government to release Events Research Programme findings
• Andrew Lloyd Webber promises “mother of all legal cases” if government pushes back lifting of COVID restrictions on venues

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including YouTube Global Head Of Music Lyor Cohen’s brag that the Google division has paid out over $4 billion to the music industry over the last year, and the last minute pleas for the government to save the festival season by offering state-backed cancellation insurance.

SECTION TIMES
01: YouTube (00:4:27)
02: Festival insurance (00:24:50)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• YouTube paid $4 billion to the music industry last year and is still finding new sources of revenue for artists, says Lyor Cohen
• Culture select committee says government inaction on insurance will result in another “lost summer” for the festival sector

ALSO MENTIONED
• Robert Smith says he’s working on an album of “just noise”
• Lyor Cohen’s blog post
• Latest report from IMPALA’s One Step Ahead

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CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including US ISP Cox Communication's claim that the music industry is "waging war on the internet" as it appeals the 2019 safe harbour ruling against it, plus a new survey from the Musicians' Union and the Incorporated Society Of Musicians showing that 77% of UK music-makers expect their income to fall as a result of new post-Brexit touring bureaucracy.

SECTION TIMES
01: Cox Communications (00:5:44)
02: Brexit (00:19:49)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Cox Communications files appeal against billion dollar copyright ruling
• 77% of musicians expect earnings to be hit by new post-Brexit touring bureaucracy

ALSO MENTIONED
• Culture Secretary “very hopeful” for full return of live music, as Download Festival added to Events Research Programme

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Apple and Amazon's announcements that users of their streaming services will now be able to enjoy some super enhanced audio action via their respective music platforms at no extra cost, plus the UK's competition regulator the Competition & Markets Authority's announcement that it has launched an investigation into the recent acquisition by Sony Music of Kobalt's recordings division.

SECTION TIMES
01: High quality audio (00:3:51)
02: Sony Music (00:21:05)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Apple Music and Amazon Music offering higher quality audio at no extra cost
• UK competition regulator to investigate Sony’s AWAL purchase
• Sony confirms AWAL acquisition completed, acknowledges regulator investigation in the UK

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• Flo Rida arrives in Rotterdam to join San Marino’s Eurovision performance
• Iceland withdraw from live Eurovision shows, PRS announces 2020’s most played UK entries
• Duncan Laurence will not reprise winning Eurovision performance following positive COVID test
• Italy wins Eurovision, UK comes last
• Apple's $549 AirPods Max can't play lossless Apple Music - even when plugged in (The Verge)

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the new class action legal claim in London on behalf of the millions of iOS users in the UK, presenting consumers rather than app-makers as the bigger losers when Apple adds a 30% commission onto in-app purchases, plus Believe’s first step towards its IPO.

SECTION TIMES
01: Apple Tax (00:12:27)
02: Believe (00:26:00)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Apple’s App Store rules now subject to £1.5 billion class action claim before UK tribunal
• Believe confirms first step completed towards IPO on Paris stock exchange

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• BRITs goes ahead with audience of keyworkers, but makes Coldplay stay outside

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the new controversy over PRS For Music’s new livestreaming licence after it was revised to address previous controversy, plus media regulator Ofcom’s consultation on its view that BBC Sounds is no threat to anyone in commercial radio and podcasting.

SECTION TIMES
01: PRS livestream tariff (00:05:15)
02: BBC Sounds (00:31:07)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• PRS proposes revised livestream licence after ‘call for views’, but still criticised by artists and managers
• OfCom opens consultation on its view BBC Sounds is not a threat to commercial radio

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the European Commission’s ‘statement of objections’ to Apple saying that it believes it has distorted competition in the music streaming market by enforcing the mandatory use of its own payment system, plus Tencent’s likely fine for alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the music streaming market.

SECTION TIMES
01: EU v Apple (00:02:58)
02: China v Tencent (00:21:49)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Apple’s App Store rules back in spotlight in both Europe and the US thanks to Spotify and Fortnite
• Tencent likely to be fined in Chinese competition law crackdown, could be force to sell music apps

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• Bjorn Ulvaeus confirmed as final keynote interviewee for Great Escape 2021
• Buy delegate passes for The Great Escape Online 2021

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the letter to UK Prime Minister 'Boris' Johnson from 156 musicians demanding that he fix music streaming, and another letter sent by an alliance of copyright industry trade groups to the European Union demanding that it beef up an element of its proposed Digital Services Act.

SECTION TIMES
01: Letter to 'Boris' Johnson (00:06:59)
02: Letter to the EU (00:30:05)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• 156 artists call on UK government to add ER to streams and launch competition investigation into the majors
• Copyright groups say European Union’s Digital Services Act should do more to stop piracy sites operating anonymously

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• CMU+TGE 2021 Panel: Learning By Doing – Young Guns Artist Campaign Team
• CMU+TGE 2021 Panel: Getting Rights Data Right
• CMU+TGE 2021: Thursday’s Keynote In Conversations
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Live Nation's announcement that it is kitting out more than 60 US music venues with equipment to offer any artist performing in them the option to also broadcast their shows online, and Ofcom's decision not to take action over a Capital Xtra DJ taking money in exchange for airplay.

SECTION TIMES
01: Livestreaming (00:04:31)
02: Capital Xtra (00:19:59)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Live Nation and Veeps begin equipping US venues for post-pandemic livestreaming
• OfCom declines to take action against Capital Xtra following DJ Tiiny payola scandal

ALSO MENTIONED
• TikTok’s Ole Obermann, BBC’s Lorna Clarke and Ghostpoet join TGE Conference line-up

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