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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is insisting that Google reforms its ‘notice and take down’ procedure. The BPI claims that it has reported 200 million links to infringing content on Google since July 2011. The links were reported via Google’s ‘Notice And Take Down’ policy but were quickly replaced by other pirate links, often the same […]
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Marques Johnson, a hip hop artist who goes by the name of Andre Roxx, has now filed a defamation lawsuit against TMZ for improper identification. The defamation charge surrounds a TMZ article published in 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The piece in question stated that a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan had been rushed to […]
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A proportional map of recorded music format revenues, using US-based tallies from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). CDs maintained a sizable chunk of recorded music sales in 2015, part of a sales map that now features a large number of competing formats. According to US-based, 2015 stats from the RIAA, CDs, subscription (paid) […]
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UK-based law firm Atkins Thomson Solicitors has now filed a claim against Michael Jackson’s estate for more than $200,000 in unpaid fees. The state claim, filed Monday in California, states that Atkins Thomson never received any money for the legal work that they carried out for Jackson in the two years leading up to his death. In […]
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Concert discovery app Bandsintown has joined forces with Ticketmaster to allow people to directly purchase tickets through the app. The partnership makes sense for both sides. For Bandsintown, the collaboration with Ticketmaster allows direct access to the largest concerts. Essentially, the partnership allows users of the app to access tickets for all Ticketmaster’s shows, which is a massive […]
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If you want big money, you go to big investors, right? Not if you’re 8tracks, which is raising big money from smaller investors. Last time we checked in with 8tracks in mid-2015, they were claiming profitability and proudly announcing a string of indie licensing deals. They also found a way to loosen their attachment to SoundCloud, quite the […]
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Yesterday, Justin Bieber announced that he will not be doing any more ‘meet and greets’ during his Purpose World Tour. The news was announced via an Instagram post, which read: ‘I enjoy meeting such incredible people…but I leave feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted to the point of depression.” In the post, Bieber also says, ”I […]
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Apple and Vice have joined forces to bring an exclusive docu-series called ‘The Score’ to Apple Music subscribers. The Score is a six-part series which looks at local music scenes across the world. The first episode is called ‘Reservation Rap’ and focuses in on the music found on the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota. The […]
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Phife Dawg, a founding member of the rap group A Tribe Called Quest, died yesterday (March 22nd) aged 45. According to reports, the rap artist (real name Malik Taylor), had been battling ill-health for some years. The cause of this death is still unannounced, but it is known that he suffered from type 1 diabetes and […]
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We’re not gonna solve the Spotify debate overnight… A handful of artists — major artists — are choosing to withhold their music from Spotify whilst opting for competing streaming services, like Apple Music and Tidal. But why? It always seems to boil down to the fact that the platform offers a free tier. Artists simply disagree […]
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