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Having Just Raised $3.5m, Swedish AI Music Startup Starmony Lets Users...
Music Business Worldwide reports: "Swedish music tech company Starmony has raised US $3.5 million from Brightly Ventures, Bonnier Ventures and Acecap along with a...
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...
Titan raises $58M for mobile crypto investment platform
VentureBeat reports: "Titan has raised $58 million to build an investment management platform to take on the likes of Fidelity and other traditional investment...
American Law Institute Decision Could Make It Harder for Creators to...
Billboard reports: "Opponents of copyright "Restatement" project say the influential legal organization has ignored dissenting opinions when it voted to approve a draft last...
UK leaders call for 50% of stream revenue to be paid...
Hypebot reports: "A bombshell study released by the UK Parliament calls for comprehensive reform “not only to redress the balance for songwriters, performers, and...
Google sued by 37 US states over Play Store monopoly
Gamesindustry.biz reports: "37 US state and district attorneys have sued Google over alleged efforts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly on Android devices."
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Biden calls for net neutrality restoration
Gamesindustry.biz reports: "US President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order on "promoting competition in the American economy" that touched on a number...
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...
SoundExchange distributions grew 4% to $947M last year
Hypebot reports: "SoundExchange announced today that despite the pandemic it had distributed $947 million in performance royalties to creators during the fiscal year 2020."
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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."
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