Nearly 15 years after James Brown’s death, his children and grandchildren have reached a settlement over a legal dispute involving his lucrative holdings. Brown had specified in a 2000 will that he would bequeath little to his heirs, other than a $2 million scholarship fund for his grandchildren, but his daughters Deanna Brown-Thomas and Yamma Brown, among others, found a way to inherit potentially millions of dollars.
Source: James Brown’s Heirs Settle 15-Year Dispute Over Soul Icon’s Estate, Song Publishing Rights
A game developer named Peter Madsen has started work on an extension for Twitch called SpotifySynchronizer. The idea is pretty simple. It allows viewers to synchronize their Spotify accounts with the streamer – so they can hear the music on their own account. Viewers can hear the same music at the same time as the streamer, while music artists, Spotify, and PROs get paid. Viewers who are watching without the extension will only hear the standard game audio.
With music discovery being one of the platform’s most talked-about attributes, it won’t surprise most music marketers to learn that 75% of TikTok visitors discover artists there, while 63% say it’s a source for music they’ve not heard before and 72% indicating they associate certain songs with TikTok.
The music business’s main value flows from its ability to control creative intellectual property, and that’s an essentially centralized activity. We need to be clear eyed about what needs to happen to create a truly robust, multi-faceted decentralized ecosystem for music.
After a choppy quarter, executives say Netflix is staying laser-focused on enhancing its core product rather than shopping for M&A deals. “We’re a one-product company with a bunch of supporting elements that help that product give incredible satisfaction for consumers and a monetizing engine for investors,” Hastings said.
Kanter is just the latest Biden nomination marking a significant step forward in antitrust enforcement, especially in the tech industry. Earlier this year, Biden nominated Lina Khan, a tech antitrust pioneer and author of the widely cited “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” legal paper, to chair the Federal Trade Commission. Tim Wu, another progressive antitrust champion, currently sits on the National Economic Council.
