India is home to the largest number of YouTube viewers in the world. But the platform’s music chart isn’t without flaws.

Amit Gurbaxani investigates why a lyric video with more than 400m views hasn’t charted on YouTube’s charts for India
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Merck Mercuriadis on Lamont Dozier: ‘He was as important as any songwriter that has ever lived.’

Hipgnosis founder pays tribute to all-time great songwriter – while making a point about the rewards great composers get from the music industry
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‘As AI creative technologies become more common, the question of AI authorship is particularly important.’

In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music
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‘A publicly accessible platform on which anyone can make undeletable, tamper-proof assertions about their ownership of or contribution to music sounds like the foundations of anarchy’

The following MBW op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, Chief Information Officer at PPL, the UK’s music licensing company for over 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
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