rights tech
Home rights tech
Spotify Built A Plagiarism Detector That Could Alter Songwriting Forever
Hypebot reports: "No one wants their music stolen without credit, but the limitations of the western ear are making the creation of wholly original...
Universal Buys Bob Dylan Publishing Rights, Acquiring Catalog Worth Hundreds of...
Music Business Worldwide reports: "MBW understands that the buyout, conducted via Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), sees Universal acquire both the publisher and writer...
Stream-Ripping Is Next Frontier for Piracy Wars
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "The Recording Industry Association of America runs into some pushback after objecting to a tool that creates permanent copies of...
Hip-Hop Streaming Platform Spinrilla Found Liable for Users’ Copyright Infringement
Billboard reports: "Hip-hop streaming platform Spinrilla is liable for copyright infringement by its users, a Georgia federal judge has ruled in a big win...
Libra cryptocurrency project changes name to Diem to distance itself from...
The Verge reports: "The Libra cryptocurrency is getting a new name today, Diem, in an effort to show that the project has “organizational independence”...
Comcast Must Face Sports TV Antitrust Suit
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "A federal judge partially accepts a complaint from Stan Kroenke's Altitude Sports over a negotiating impasse with Comcast over a...
TikTok Inks Multi-Year Licensing Deal With ICE
Music Business Worldwide reports: "Pan-European licensing hub ICE and TikTok have agreed a multi-year licensing deal for the musical works represented by the ICE...
‘Several Hundred Million Dollars’ In Black Box Royalties Is Due To...
Hypebot reports: "We’ve known for years that there is a large pool of unpaid royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other digital service providers....
Could Epidemic Sound Really Be Worth More Than $1bn?
Music Business Worldwide reports: "Epidemic Sound, the controversial Stockholm-headquartered production music house, is reportedly considering an IPO or sale at a company valuation of...
Taylor Swift’s Masters: What Shamrock Gets for $300 Million, Why It...
Variety reports: "What the fund? The rights to the first six albums by Taylor Swift, arguably the most commercially popular artist in the world,...
