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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, British band Easy Life agree to change their name following legal action from owner of the easyJet airline easyGroup, and Coldplay’s ongoing legal battle with their former manager Dave Holmes.

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01: Easy Life (00:05:32)
02: Coldplay (00:20:08)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Easy Life concede defeat in EasyGroup battle, will change name
• Coldplay countersue former manager Dave Holmes in £14 million lawsuit 

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, the call for "consent, respect and remuneration" to be central to the development of music AI platforms and tools, and the RIAA’s latest stats on US recorded music revenues.

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01: AI red lines (00:03:18)
02: RIAA (00:20:41)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• "Consent, respect and remuneration" crucial as music AI evolves, say UK music-makers
• BPI boss responds to the five AI fundamentals published by the Council Of Music Makers
• Premium streaming and vinyl continue to power growth in US recorded music market

ALSO MENTIONED
• AMG allowed to re-open Brixton Academy subject to meeting 77 conditions

You can read a full transcript of this episode on our website here.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including a call from the FanFair Alliance campaign group against ticket touting for the introduction of legislation to ban the for-profit resale of tickets in the UK, and criticism of Deezer’s new proposals for ‘artist-centric’ royalty payments.

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01: Ticket resale (00:04:13)
02: Deezer (00:11:41)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• FanFair Alliance calls for ban of for-profit ticket touting in the UK
• Believe criticises ‘reverse Robin Hood’ elements of Deezer's new artist-centric model for payments

ALSO MENTIONED
• MMF publishes AI guide
• Download the MMF AI guide
• The revenue politics of streaming - Chris's session at the Reeperbahn conference, Friday 22 Sep, 12.30pm
• Silvia Montello speaking about user-centric royalties on Setlist

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Deezer’s announcement that it is making changes to the way it allocates revenues to tracks later this year, and claims that organised criminals are using streaming services to launder money.

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01: Deezer (00:04:22)
02: Streaming fraud (00:18:58)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Deezer set to roll out Universal Music endorsed "artist centric" model to royalty payments in France next month
• Swedish tabloid alleges streaming fraud organised crime gang link
• Key stakeholders say industry has shared responsibility to tackle crime links to streaming fraud
 
ALSO MENTIONED
• Ezra Collective become first ever jazz band to win Mercury Prize

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the newly announced licensing hearing to decide the future of London’s Brixton Academy venue nine months after it was closed down when two people were killed in a crowd crush incident, plus Eminem’s battle with US presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy.

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01: Brixton Academy (00:05:33)
02: Eminem (00:11:48)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Lambeth Council to consider future of Brixton Academy at two day hearing this month
• Eminem tells Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stop using his music

ALSO MENTIONED
• ASCAP takes advantage of growing controversy over imminent BMI sale

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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’s three new AI music principles published alongside the launch of a new YouTube Music AI Incubator, plus questions from various songwriter groups to the boss of American collecting society BMI about the organisation’s decision last year to become a for-profit enterprise.

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01: YouTube (00:05:11)
02: BMI (00:15:15)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• YouTube sets out three principles for the development of AI music
• Songwriter groups demand information about a newly for-profit BMI’s plans and possible sale
• BMI reportedly considering acquisition offer from New Mountain Capital

ALSO MENTIONED
• Sheffield City Council says it “cannot directly intervene” in ongoing Leadmill dispute

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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 debate surrounding comments made by The 1975’s frontman Matty Healy on stage in Malaysia regarding the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and the latest developments in the battle over who will run the Leadmill music venue in Sheffield. 

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01: The 1975 (00:12:00)
02: The Leadmill (00:24:58)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• The 1975 cancel performances in Asia after being banned from Malaysia
• Ten artists and vendors set to sue The 1975 over Good Vibes Festival cancellation
• Save The Leadmill campaign ramps up ahead of September licensing committee meeting

ALSO MENTIONED
• Mercury Prize shortlist announced
• Save The Leadmill video (Facebook)

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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 TikTok and Warner Music’s “first-of-its-kind partnership” – a licensing agreement that involves both the Warner Music record company and music publishing business Warner Chappell and covers various platforms run by TikTok owner Bytedance – and the NME’s return to print. 

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01: TikTok (00:03:04)
02: NME (00:18:53)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Warner Music announces new deal with TikTok, as TikTok Music arrives in three more markets
• NME announces return to print

ALSO MENTIONED
• Parklife founder and NTIA boss hit out at Home Office’s “demonstrably untrue” statement on festival drug testing policy
• Setlist episode on drug testing policy
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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 stepping up of the Featured Artists Coalition’s 100% Venues campaign, which encourages music venues to allow artists to sell merchandise at their shows without being charged any commission on sales, and the new legal challenge to the UK government’s festival drug testing policy. 

Apologies for the sound issues in this episode. As you’ll hear, we have a new recording set up. After some great sounding test recordings, one of us (see if you can guess who) managed to record through their laptop mic instead of their studio mic. 

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01: 100% Venues (00:09:42)
02: Drug testing policy (00:20:08)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• FAC steps up its 100% Venues campaign against merch commissions
• NTIA seeks judicial review on government’s “reckless” festival drug testing policy

ALSO MENTIONED
• UK Music sets out proposals for AI regulation in letter to government
• Sarah Silverman joins authors in suing ChatGPT for copyright infringement
• Universal Music calls for federal publicity right and more transparency in latest AI hearing in US Congress
• FXR and CMU put the spotlight on music royalty reporting – provide your input now
• 100% Venues petition (Change.org)

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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 Twitter being sued by a consortium of music publishers for hosting “countless” videos that contain unlicensed music, and the alliance of music distributors that has come together with Spotify and Amazon Music to form Music Fights Fraud, a new initiative described as “a global task force aimed at eradicating streaming fraud”.

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01: Twitter (00:04:48)
02: Music Fights Fraud (00:07:23)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Music publishers accuse Twitter of “massive copyright infringement” in $250 million lawsuit
• Music distributors ally to fight streaming fraud

ALSO MENTIONED
• Ed Sheeran gets a giant bear tingly for his hot sauce

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• Upcoming CMU webinars
• Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon
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• Listen to the full Setlist theme tune