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Sony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic Over Claude AI Training
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music and dozens of affiliated publishers have sued Anthropic over material allegedly used to build Claude, accusing the AI company of illegally obtaining…
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Spotify Reaches 300 Million Premium Subscribers in Streaming Milestone
Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of…
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Influence Media Agrees to Buy Anthem Catalogs for Over $600 Million
Influence Media Partners has agreed to acquire substantially all of Anthem Entertainment’s assets for more than $600 million, adding a sprawling collection of publishing rights, master recordings and…
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Sony Music Sues Udio Over Alleged Use of 30,117 Recordings
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second federal copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio, alleging the service copied 30,117 Sony-controlled sound recordings to train its generative music…
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X and Music Publishers End Three-Year Copyright Licensing Battle
X Corp. and a group of major music publishers have ended the competing federal lawsuits at the center of a three-year fight over copyright, licensing and music used…
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Primary Wave Completes $1.5 Billion Kobalt Music Acquisition
Primary Wave Music has completed its acquisition of Kobalt, closing a transaction worth roughly $1.5 billion that brings one of the music industry’s largest independent publishing and royalty-administration…
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Firebird Launches $750 Million Music Catalog Acquisition Platform
Firebird Music has launched a $750 million platform for music catalog acquisitions, giving the artist-management and independent-label company a major new pool of purchasing power for recorded-music and…