by Daniel Adrian Sanchez On the heels of the rumored deal between Warner Music Group and top premium music video streamer Vevo reported on DigitalMusicNews.com, video distribution platform Vadio, together with Warner Music Group, announced a […]
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Industry All Access Helps Artist Careers Progress
Industry All Access is a full entertainment consulting firm. The company works with clients in all forms of entertainment. Industry All Access helps entrepreneurs, entertainers, artists, actors, dancers, songwriters, comedians, musicians and singers develop and […]
SoundCloud Reportedly for Sale for $1 Billion
by Daniel Adrian Sanchez SoundCloud for Sale? Bloomberg.com is reporting that privately-owned SoundCloud’s founders and investors are seriously considering a sale. That includes investment firm Doughty Hanson & Co., just one of several stakeholders considering […]
Spotify Is About to Crush That $200 Million Class Action Lawsuit
by Paul Resnikoff $5 million later, Spotify seems to be walking away clean. It now looks like Spotify is soundly defeating a $200 million class action lawsuit from songwriters and publishers.  Initially, Spotify faced a scary, $150 […]
Breaking: Apple (Not Google) In Discussions to Purchase Tidal
by Paul Resnikoff But will regulators approve the acquisition? Apple is now considering a purchase of Tidal, according to details just published by the Wall Street Journal.  Citing ‘people familiar with the matter,’ the Journal pointed […]
Streaming Beef: Spotify Says Apple Abuses iOS to ‘Squash Competition in Music’
by Charlotte Hassan Spotify has had enough of Apple’s anti-competitive, profit-milking, iOS abuse… Spotify has previously thanked Apple for increasing the rate of growth in their subscriber numbers, and for helping the service reach 100 million […]
Google and LyricFind Partner To Bring More Lyrics and Administer Rights
by Charlotte Hassan LyricFind+Google = a lot of lyrics. Today, LyricFind has joined forces with Google to bring more lyrics to the search engine, as well as administer rights. LyricFind is the world’s largest lyric licensing […]
Investigations Are Underway Over Fake DMCA Takedown Notices
by Charlotte Hassan The scammers were so good they fooled Cox… According to TorrentFreak, scammers are using anti-piracy tracking company – IP-Echelon and rights holders like Lionsgate to send false DMCA notices and settlement agreements to internet […]