A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against Timothy J. Leiweke, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oak View Group (OVG), for orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university in Austin, Texas, the Justice...
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) last week requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Spotify for allegedly converting premium subscriptions into higher-priced bundled subscriptions without the knowledge or consent of consumers. “These actions harm...
Chris Bryant today all but admitted why the government has, five times, refused to accept legislation from the House of Lords that would require AI companies to reveal their training data: They are going to offer creators transparency legislation *later*, in return...
Deezer has launched an AI tagging system for music streaming, with the goal of offering full transparency on AI generated tracks. Paris-based global music platform Deezer has introduced an AI tagging system for music streaming. The DSP will now clearly display which...
At the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) annual meeting held in Alice Tulley Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center, the organization revealed the true cost of Spotify’s bundling scheme to publishers and songwriters. According to the NMPA, the bundling...
MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. That’s certainly the case with this latest edition, with one important difference: the person who has penned the below commentary has requested anonymity. We can tell...
