David Crosby forced to sell his song catalog: ‘It’s my only option… streaming stole my record money.’

Crosby, Stills & Nash legend is selling his music like Bob Dylan – but says he’s doing so as he has no other financial choice
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Spotify just invented AI technology that will police songwriter plagiarism

Spotify’s in-house AI expert, François Pachet, is a co-founder of the new technology, now being reviewed for a European patent
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Not only is Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’ according to Spotify… it’s also ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ to SPOT’s new marketing tools

“Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time.”
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Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years

Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers
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