Raha Muhammad, Author at Digital Music News

Music platform Baton announced on Tuesday that it raised $4.2 million to develop its products further, using AI and a decentralized payment infrastructure to support collaboration among creators.

Music Collaboration Startup Baton Raises $4.2 Million in Funding

November 15, 2023

Photo Credit: Mitchell Luo Music startup Baton announced on Tuesday that it raised $4.2 million to develop its AI-backed decentralized music infrastructure that supports collaboration among creators. Baton l... Read More...

Why are UMG and WMG backing Deezer’s proposal, and will Sony Music join the artist-centric party next?

Warner Music Joins the Artist-Centric Party: But Are Major Labels the Only Ones Benefiting Here?

Raha Muhammad

November 15, 2023

Photo Credit: PDPics On Monday, the President of Warner Music France announced WMG’s support for Deezer's artist-centric compensation system. Now, with two of the three biggest music labels endorsing the mode... Read More...

Payout platform Trolley has been ranked No.23 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 (Canada) and No.153 on their Technology Fast 500 (North America).

Trolley Credits Music Industry as ‘Instrumental’ to Ranking on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 Awards

Raha Muhammad

November 14, 2023

Payout platform Trolley has been ranked No.23 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 (Canada) and No.153 on their Technology Fast 500 (North America). Deloitte’s annual rankings honor the fastest-growing, most inno... Read More...

Warner Music Group Corp. Announces Fiscal Q4 and Full Year 2023 Earnings.

Warner Music Group Joins Deezer’s Artist-Centric Royalties System in France

Raha Muhammad

November 13, 2023

Photo Credit: Christine Roy Deezer has rolled out its artist-centric payouts system in France, and it now has another one of The Big-Three labels ---WMG --- on board its controversial remuneration model. Fol... Read More...

Google is reportedly in talks to finalize an investment of hundreds of millions into chatbot-creator startup Character.AI.

Google’s AI-Mania Continues: In Talks to Invest Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Character.AI

Raha Muhammad

November 13, 2023

Photo Credit: Google DeepMind Character.AI could gain incredible amounts of capital in Google-funded convertible notes. The move will deepen existing ties between the startup and Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL)... Read More...

DMNPro’s inaugural mini-conference took place on October 25, 2023, for insightful discussions on the current dilemmas plaguing the music industry --- in the face of AI.

DMN Pro Conference: Artists, Tech Heavyweights, and Regulation Experts Debate Rules for AI, Voice Modeling, and Copyright Issues

Raha Muhammad

November 10, 2023

DMN Pro’s inaugural mini-conference took place on October 25, 2023. The event set the stage for insightful discussions on the current dilemmas plaguing the music industry --- in the face of AI. Hosted at the ... Read More...

Spotify plans for two-tier system are ‘intrinsically unfair, clearly discriminatory, bordering on offensive.'

Spotify’s Plans to Demonetize Tracks With the Lowest Royalty Payouts Is ‘Discriminatory and Offensive,’ Says Competition Policy Expert

Raha Muhammad

November 7, 2023

Photo Credit: Kmeron for LeWeb11 / CC by 2.0 Amelia Fletcher, Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia, has sent a personal letter to Spotify boss Daniel Ek.... Read More...

Dua Lipa Has Re-Acquired Her Publishing Rights From Management Company TaP

Raha Muhammad

November 3, 2023

Photo Credit: Justin Higuchi Her former management company, TaP Music, sold the rights back to Dua Lipa a year after she left the firm. TaP Management announced on Thursday that it has sold Dua Lipa publishi... Read More...

Apple announced its financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter ending September 30, 2023.

Apple Reports ‘All-Time High’ Quarterly Services Revenue, Which Includes Apple Music

Raha Muhammad

November 3, 2023

Photo Credit: Brett Jordan On Thursday, Apple announced its financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter that ended September 30. The revenue picture for Apple could be better, and Wall Street is unim... Read More...

The MLC Has Distributed Over $1.5 Billion in Royalties to Members, ‘Met Every Milestone Set by Congress’

The MLC Has Distributed Over $1.5 Billion in Royalties to Members — ‘We’ve Met Every Milestone Set by Congress’

Raha Muhammad

October 31, 2023

Photo Credit: Zachary Kadolph In its third Annual Membership Meeting last week, The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) revealed milestones and key metrics from the previous year, announcing the success... Read More...

President Biden Signs Executive Order for ‘Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy’ AI

Raha Muhammad

October 30, 2023

Photo Credit: Ana Lanza The executive order is part of the Biden-Harris Administration's comprehensive strategy for responsible innovation. By establishing standards to protect American citizens' privacy, equ... Read More...

As Google doles out $2 billion in funding, Anthropic has landed in an epic AI tug-of-war. Major labels are trying to pull it down, and tech giants Amazon and Google are fueling it for success.

What Massive Copyright Infringement? Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to Anthropic

Raha Muhammad

October 30, 2023

Photo Credit: Gerd Altmann Anthropic continues on its journey of gaining billions in backing, despite UMG, Concord, and ABKCO slapping a major copyright infringement lawsuit onto the AI Startup. For Google, t... Read More...

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