Facebook set to challenge Spotify with ‘comprehensive music strategy’

Mark Zuckerberg’s company is hiring for THREE new senior music licensing roles

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Warning: Universal Music Is Ripping Down ALL Facebook Cover Videos

  Uploading cover song videos to Facebook?  You might want to stop doing that. Last year, Universal Music Publishing Group, the largest publisher in the world, started ripping down Facebook cover videos.  Long story short: Facebook and UMPG couldn’t agree on a royalty agreement for the songs being covered.  So the big guns were pointed at […]

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Ed Sheeran Desperately Trying to Repair Fan Relationships as Facebook Rips Down Cover Videos

Ed Sheeran fans are making Facebook cover videos.  Warner Music Group, Ed Sheeran’s label, is having them ripped down.  Ed Sheeran is personally apologizing and getting them reinstated. Maybe there’s a better way? We’ve written a lot about the messy war zone surrounding Facebook cover videos.  Presently, Facebook doesn’t have the proper publishing licenses (like […]

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