musicbusinessworldwide.comadded August 2026
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen25d ago
Suno has been hit with another proposed class action over the November 2025 data breach that reportedly exposed the personal information of 55.3 million users.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani25d ago
Believe France has launched ALL IN, a new pop entity that brings together four of its labels: naïve, Animal63, All Night Long, and Jo&Co.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug25d ago
Live-entertainment platform Fever has raised USD $250 million in a primary equity financing round.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen25d ago
Universal Music Group and Warner Records have told a New York federal court that the American Federation of Musicians conceded away its own case when it accepted that no union agreement covers AI.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani25d ago
BMG has expanded its relationship with Jean-Michel Jarre to license the composer’s recorded catalog and future works.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen25d ago
A federal judge found last year that Anthropic had bought print books, torn off their bindings, scanned every page, stored the results as digital files, and thrown away what was left.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani25d ago
BMI has launched a free service to help its US-based songwriters and composers find healthcare coverage for themselves and their families.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen25d ago
Songwriter Cyril Vetter has told the US Supreme Court not to hear the majors’ and BMG‘s challenge to a ruling that lets songwriters reclaim their copyrights worldwide.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug25d ago
A federal judge has ordered the proposed class action against StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, into private arbitration, and paused the court case while that process runs.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug25d ago
Live Nation will keep formal ownership of Pukkelpop, but it will not run the Belgian festival. The Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) closed its investigation into Live Nation‘s takeover of...
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug25d ago
Kakao Entertainment has entered a strategic partnership with Walt Disney Company Korea (Disney Korea).
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen26d ago
MNRK Music Group has acquired the recorded catalog of Black Label Society, the influential heavy metal band founded by Zakk Wylde.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug26d ago
The Howlin’ Wolf, an independent music venue in New Orleans, is suing StubHub over the way the resale platform advertises tickets to its shows.
Music Business Worldwideby Music Business Worldwide26d ago
MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following MBW op/ed comes from Richard Leach, CEO of Curve Royalty Systems.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen26d ago
Panic At The Disco LLC, the company that owns the trademarks of the band Panic! at the Disco, has sued a group of anonymous online sellers it accuses of selling counterfeit merchandise.
Music Business Worldwideby Tim Ingham26d ago
Universal Music Group is suing the world’s biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid. In its lawsuit, UMG, the world’s largest music rights company, alleges that DistroKid has “engaged in both...
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug27d ago
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup that releases small apps for ‘playing with’ music, has raised a USD $5.5 million pre-seed round.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug27d ago
Universal Music Group and AI audio company ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement last Thursday (September 10).
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug27d ago
Samsung has asked a federal judge to throw out Dua Lipa’s lawsuit over the use of her photograph on television packaging. Lawyers for Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug27d ago
Oasis will return to the stage in 2027 for 38 stadium shows. The band announced the Oasis Live ’27 tour on Monday (September 14), almost 10 months after the closing night of their Live ’25 reunion...
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