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Thomson Reuters Scored a Major AI-Related Victory This Month. But Where Do the Music Industry’s AI Cases Stand?

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A flyover of where things stand in the music industry’s critical AI legal cases.

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Chartmetric's 'Talent Search Tool' sifts through an enormous amount of data to better predict winners (photo: Chartmetric) You can forgive the music industry for being blasé about the fate of TikTok in the Un... Read More...
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Topping the music industry's shuffles this week is Ole Obermann jumping ship from TikTok to Apple Music. Is this merely the rumble before the earthquake? The timing of Obermann's move is eyebrow-raising, to ... Read More...
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Can Spotify’s ‘super-premium’ tier break the streaming music plateau? In this report, we pick apart the rumored offerings within ‘Music Pro’ – and examine the serious challenges that each presents from both an execution and consumer adoption standpoint.

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Photo Credit: SoundCloud Which music streaming platform is delivering the most reliable data on play counts? In a surprising turn of events, SoundCloud has emerged as the leader in Legitary's latest DSP trans... Read More...
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Photo Credit: Ri Ya Here's a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify's cut-rate 'bundled' royalty payments — except for Spotify. Six-year-olds enjoy cauliflower more, but now that Spotify just whipp... Read More...
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