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Why Are Digital Rights Platforms Not Disrupting the Indie Biz Like...

Variety reports: "COVID-19 lockdowns have provided the perfect backdrop for companies seeking to reinvent the world of content distribution. With international travel restricted and...

AI Driven Film Payment Tech Can Predict Box-Office Success, Start Up...

Variety reports: "A payment system claiming to automate the collection, tracking and allocation of film company revenues, as well as predicting future box-office success,...

Diplo is the Latest Artist to Let Fans Buy Shares in...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "In January, Blockchain-based music investment platform Royal let fans invest in hip-hop legend Nas’s music on the platform by buying...

BMG, KKR to Partner on Music Rights Acquisitions

The Hollywood Reporter reports: "Amid a music catalog deal gold rush, Bertelsmann's music giant and the investment firm want to "deliver a compelling solution...

How Blockchain tech could remix the Music Industry

Hypebot reports: "Zach Badger of crypto ecosystem Privi explores the history of the broken artist compensation model and how decentralization might finally repair it." Read...

Microsoft acquires cybersecurity firm RiskIQ as the threat of ransomware intensifies

The Verge reports: "Microsoft is officially acquiring RiskIQ, a security software vendor. RiskIQ provides management tools and threat intelligence gathering against a wide range...

Hipgnosis Is Buying Music Libraries — and Plans to Spend $1...

The Hollywood Reporter reports: "A former music manager’s company has acquired more than 100 publishing catalogs, including a 50 percent stake in Neil Young’s,...

NFT market OpenSea hits $1.5 billion valuation

TechCrunch reports: "It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. The startup was exceedingly well positioned in a niche space when NFTs...

Record Labels And Publishers Ink Major Settlement, Moving From 9.1 Cents...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "The important background information to this story is that since 2006, the mechanical rate paid to publishers/songwriters for music purchased...

Sony Music Completes $430m Buyout of AWAL – but UK Competition...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "Sony Music has today (May 19) confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of two companies from Kobalt Music Group:...