February, 2025

Arden Records launches publishing division to support lo-fi artists
Company was founded by Nepalese artist sagun in 2021 Source...

John Cooper Clarke to receive headline prize at UK’s Northern Music Awards
The awards, held this year on March 27 in Liverpool, are the creation of music therapy charity Nordoff and Robbins Source...

UK mulling changes to proposed ‘opt-out’ policy for AI amid growing pressure from artists and lawmakers (report)
One option would be to limit the 'opt-out' policy to British AI companies, while others would need advance permission to train AI on copyrighted materials Source...

Artist marketing platform un:hurd music attracts fresh investment from EMPIRE
The investment takes place alongside un:hurd’s ongoing funding round, in which Trapital Ventures and Mindset Ventures MusicTech have also participated Source...

ASCAP’s payouts to songwriters and publishers rose 6.5% to $1.7bn in 2024, as membership ‘soared’ past 1m mark
ASCAP bills itself as the only performance rights organization in the US operating on a not-for-profit basis Source...

$500m-valued Suno has admitted training AI on copyrighted music. That hasn’t stopped Amazon from adding its controversial tech to Alexa
The new voice assistant is also integrated with the Claude chatbot from Anthropic, an AI company facing a copyright lawsuit from music publishers Source...

AI music remix app Hook expands distribution network with Too Lost partnership
Hook has released more than 7 million songs, with about 150,000 new releases per month from 300,000 artists Source...

Riot Games, Epic Games, and Tuned Global on the future of music in gaming
Gaming continues to be a big opportunity for music rightsholders. Source...

A letter to Steve Boom.
MBW founder Tim Ingham on Amazon's surprise new tie-up with Suno. Source...

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