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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 StubHub being sued over changes to its refund policy as the COVID-19 crisis wreaks havoc on the live industry, and the dismissal of a song-theft lawsuit over ‘You Raise Me Up’. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• StubHub sued over COVID-19 change to its FanProtect guarantee scheme
• US court dismisses You Raise Me Up song-theft case, criticises musicologist report

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• CMU's Lockdown Webinars
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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 former Paradigm agent Debbee Klein suing her now ex-employer over redundancies – specifically her redundancy – made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, plus Public Enemy’s big hoax or non-hoax. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Ousted Paradigm agent files explosive lawsuit against her former employer
• Public Enemy reveal Flavor Flav dispute was just a very confusing hoax
• Flavor Flav says Public Enemy hoax is a hoax

ALSO MENTIONED
• Universal Music announces COVID-19 support initiatives
• Sony Corp's $100 million COVID-19 relief fund
• Live Nation launches COVID-19 relief fund for live industry practitioners
• Crew Nation website
• Night-time businesses team up with landlords to call for additional government measures to save venues, clubs, bars and restaurants
• Music Venue Trust says a million in emergency funding is needed to ensure grassroots venues can survive the COVID-19 shutdown
• K-Pop star sorry for coronavirus April fool's joke (BBC News)
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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 how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the music business and the financial support available to musicians and others who work in the industry, and the latest filing in the dispute over who owns a stake in Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Self-employed who make up 72% of the music industry being let down by government as COVID-19 crisis grows, say trade bodies
• Ivors Academy proposes using unallocated streaming royalties to support music-makers hit by COVID-19 crisis
• Spotify, PRS and Help Musicians launch financial support initiatives for music-makers struggling amid COVID-19 outbreak
• Music industry welcomes UK government’s COVID-19 support for self-employed

ALSO MENTIONED
• Coronamusicians.info
• Musicians' Union Hardship Fund
• Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief
• PRS Emergency Relief Fund
• Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund
• MMF Song Royalties Guide
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• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the music industry and the many freelancers who work in it, and the latest rulings in the song-theft cases against Led Zeppelin and Katy Perry. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

It’s the seventh in our series of special editions of Setlist looking at some of our favourite music industry legal battles of all time. CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the case filed against Jay-Z by the family of Baligh Hamdy, who argued that the rapper had infringed the the late Egyptian film composer's moral rights - an element of copyright law that we rarely have the opportunity to talk about but opens up some interesting debates. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

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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 latest twist in the dispute over who wrote Lizzo's hit 'Truth Hurts', how the coronoavirus is affecting the live music industry, and the bust up between the current members of Journey resulting in a $10 million lawsuit. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

Please note: This episode was recorded shortly before this year's SXSW was cancelled.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Lizzo collaborators hit back in Truth Hurts copyright dispute
• Miami’s Ultra Music Festival postponed over coronavirus concerns
• Journey bust up results in $10 million lawsuit

ALSO MENTIONED
• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the two British ticket touts jailed for fraud, how the continued rise in record industry income in the US, and how the UK government’s post-Brexit immigration policy could affect the music industry. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Fraudulent ticket touts jailed for more than six years
• Streaming now 80% of the $11.1 billion US recorded music market
• Music industry criticises UK government’s new immigration plans
• UK Music responds to government’s Brexit talks ‘negotiating mandate’

ALSO MENTIONED
• Speakers and topics announced for this year’s CMU+TGE conferences
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It’s the sixth in our series of special editions of Setlist looking at some of our favourite music industry legal battles of all time. CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the period in music history where the major labels attempted to curb illegal file-sharing by suing individual music fans. We look in particular at the cases of Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum who carried on fighting back long after anti-piracy tactics had moved on. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

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It’s the fifth in our series of special editions of Setlist looking at some of our favourite music industry legal battles of all time. CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the libel proceedings Morrissey launched against the NME in 2011, four years after the magazine published an article he claimed called him racist. But with an album and plenty of tour dates under his belt in the interim, could he claim that his reputation had been damaged? Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

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It’s the fourth in our series of special editions of Setlist looking at the top ten music industry legal battles of all time. CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss a lengthy battle launched by Kraftwerk, which asked the important question, “can a two second sample possibly constitute copyright infringement?” Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

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