This week, we caught up with Cally Hamilton, Sampling And Infringement Assistant at Universal Music Publishing Group.

Ireland last week changed its copyright laws so that radio royalties can now flow to American performers when their music is played on Irish radio. SoundExchange has celebrated the change, caused by ...

Apple has won its legal battle with music app Musi, which sources its music from YouTube rather than having deals with record labels. A judge ruled that Apple was within its rights to axe Musi from ...

US senator Richard Blumenthal has slammed the settlement reached between Live Nation and the US DoJ, insisting that it won’t address any of the competition issues raised. In a new report, he urges the ...

Bloodworm deal in brooding post-punk awash with dominant, driving basslines, heavily modulated echoing guitars and morose vocals that nod firmly to the eighties - but with an energy rooted firmly in ...

The Live Nation antitrust trial may be on hold after it reached a settlement with the US Department Of Justice, but that didn ...

Another AI copyright lawsuit, this time a group of indie artists are suing Google over its Lyria model. Like all AI companies ...

StubHub has committed to make changes to its website in Canada after an investigation by a consumer rights regulator. It comes as ticket resale companies tell lawmakers they should focus scrutiny on ...

Sombr criticised staff at the Brixton Academy over their crowd safety procedures after pausing a show at the venue on Monday ...

Snoop Dogg wanted to trademark the phrase ‘Smoke Weed Everyday’, a key lyric from his track ‘The Next Episode, for his cannabis business. But the US Trademark Office has rejected his application, beca ...

The UK government has to provide a plan around AI and copyright by 18 Mar. Ahead of that, a committee in the House Of Lords ...

The 80s polyphony, the slightly unhinged energy: it’s a combination not many pull off without tipping into pastiche, but ...