Music Business News: Belgium News IMPALA and A2IM take aim at indie music’s carbon footprint with US pilot programThe pilot project is meant to adapt IMPALA's carbon calculator for US companies, with an eye to further global expansion News FUGA inks global distro, marketing deals with France’s Record Makers and Belgium’s Potion RecordsThe deals expand Downtown-owned FUGA's presence in the French and Belgian music industries. News Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiativeA new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI Analysis News As landmark AI Act passes EU parliament vote, rightsholders urge ‘meaningful and effective’ enforcement of copyrightSome legal analysts say the law contains ambiguities on the issue of copyrighted materials being used to train AI Analysis News Apple fined nearly $2bn in EU over ‘abusive’ app store rules for music streaming services – and it could potentially be on the hook for more damagesApple plans to appeal the decision News EU AI Act headed for parliamentary vote, with some copyright provisions still unclearThe AI Act requires tech companies to reveal what copyrighted materials were used to train AI, but whether they will have to license that material is less clear Analysis With ‘superfans’ in their eyes, could the major record companies now rally behind Spotify in its ‘app tax’ battle with Apple?Why a careful balancing act is required by the majors as their own priorities become entangled in Spotify and Apple's fight News Did Spotify just confirm that ‘superfan clubs’ are coming to its platform?Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post1 2 … 7 Next
News IMPALA and A2IM take aim at indie music’s carbon footprint with US pilot programThe pilot project is meant to adapt IMPALA's carbon calculator for US companies, with an eye to further global expansion
News FUGA inks global distro, marketing deals with France’s Record Makers and Belgium’s Potion RecordsThe deals expand Downtown-owned FUGA's presence in the French and Belgian music industries.
News Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiativeA new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI
Analysis News As landmark AI Act passes EU parliament vote, rightsholders urge ‘meaningful and effective’ enforcement of copyrightSome legal analysts say the law contains ambiguities on the issue of copyrighted materials being used to train AI
Analysis News Apple fined nearly $2bn in EU over ‘abusive’ app store rules for music streaming services – and it could potentially be on the hook for more damagesApple plans to appeal the decision
News EU AI Act headed for parliamentary vote, with some copyright provisions still unclearThe AI Act requires tech companies to reveal what copyrighted materials were used to train AI, but whether they will have to license that material is less clear
Analysis With ‘superfans’ in their eyes, could the major record companies now rally behind Spotify in its ‘app tax’ battle with Apple?Why a careful balancing act is required by the majors as their own priorities become entangled in Spotify and Apple's fight
News Did Spotify just confirm that ‘superfan clubs’ are coming to its platform?Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post