February, 2026

Direct-to-fan platform EVEN launches STUDIO, giving artists a standalone destination to sell music, tickets and merch
Artists can use STUDIO to release music or other content, sell tickets and merch, host livestreams, and more Source...

Red Light Management and The Very Good launch Red Light Management Scandinavia
It will be headed by Red Light Management UK founder James Sandom and The Very Good founder and CEO Jakob Emtestam. Source...

US appeals court rejects ‘fair use’ defense over AI training – as Thomson Reuters wins copyright case backed by RIAA and NMPA
US federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that an AI company's copying of protected material to build its training data was not fair use. Source...

Audio AI firm Modulate, which runs an AI music detection tool, raises $25M
Boston-headquartered startup has raised $60 million to date Source...

Sony-backed blockchain Soneium partners with K-pop company DayOneDream to tokenize artist IP
The agency behind BTOB and Lee Chae Yeon will put concert and content IP onchain via its WAVIST platform, which has until now run on rival chain Story. Source...

SESAC Music Group’s Music Services division appoints Nick LaPointe Senior Director of Business Development – Jay Sudarma promoted to VP of Marketing
Both appointments are effective immediately, Music Services said on Tuesday (September 29). Source...

US prosecutors want man who pocketed $8M using AI songs imprisoned for 4 years, saying he stole from ‘hard-working’ songwriters
Prosecutors have put Smith's emails in front of Judge Koeltl, and say they show a man who knew from the start that his scheme was fraud. Source...

NoCopyrightSounds wins £1.4M interim payment from former distributor AEI Music, as High Court orders interim accounts
The High Court in London also ordered AEI and the label's former sub-publisher to provide interim accounts setting out the debt owed to NCS. Source...

Ivan Chen named CEO of BandLab Technologies as co-founder Meng Ru Kuok transitions to Executive Chairman
Kuok remains Group CEO of parent company Caldecott Music Group, where Chen also continues as Group President. Source...

Absolute Label Services opens AI-powered Anthology business management ‘Music OS’ to indie sector: ‘Infrastructure is the next logical thing to democratize’
White label business management platform launches with Cherry Red Records and Blue Raincoat Music as its first named customers. Source...

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