Australia’s sole ASX-listed music company, Jaxsta, has announced a significant transformation that includes changing its name to Vinyl Group, after the company expanded into online vinyl sales earlier this year. This rebranding effort is not merely cosmetic as the company’s constitution has been updated to reflect the new name. The ticker code on the ASX will also change from JXT to VNL.
Source: Music credits company Jaxsta rebrands as Vinyl Group
Credits Due is the initiative launched in 2021 by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus to encourage musicians to create accurate metadata for their work. Backed by the Ivors Academy and Music Rights Awareness Foundation, it has since picked up support from PROs including PPL in the UK. Now it’s getting another push with the launch of a toolkit that music organizations can use to hold events promoting the initiative to musicians.
Source: Credits Due toolkit aims to boost music metadata campaign – Music Ally
California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is preparing for its next trick: Putting guardrails on AI. The state privacy regulator, which has an important role in setting rules of the road for digital giants given how much of Big Tech (and Big AI) is headquartered on its sun-kissed soil, has today published draft regulations for how people’s data can be used for what it refers to as automated decision-making technology (ADMT*). Aka AI.
Source: California’s privacy watchdog eyes AI rules with opt-out and access rights | TechCrunch
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says that “part “of the reason the streamer has long been tight-lipped about viewership data — even when it came to disclosing numbers to those creating the TV shows and films for the platform — is because of the talent’s own concerns about feeling “pretty trapped” by ratings and box office performance.
As with previous DiMA reports, there are plenty of interesting stats, albeit tuned towards the positive impact of these DSPs. 78% of hip-hop streamers listen to music daily; they’re 25% more likely to use new features on streaming services than the average listener; and 75% are ‘lean-in’ listeners who like to pick their songs and create playlists.
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Source: Latest DiMA report explores streaming habits of hip-hop fans – Music Ally
Striking writers and actors are pressing a few common issues as they seek better contracts from the media companies represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. One big one: Both unions want more transparency about how many people are watching streaming series and movies and, along with that, a bigger share of streaming revenue via residuals or success-based metrics.
Source: Creators Once Dreaded the Pressure of Ratings, Now They’re Fighting for the Data
London-headquartered collection society PRS for Music has extended its Nexus program with an aim to link songwriter and composer information to music recordings before they are released. This ensures that royalties are quickly paid to rightsholders, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (September 6).
Apple is introducing several new features for podcast creators on its platform to rival Spotify’s dominance of a format Apple started. One of the biggest new features is the ability for creators to see subscription analytics in the Apple Podcasts Connect platform. Apple is also partnering with Linkfire to give creators a new way to generate smart links for landing pages.
Source: Apple Remembers It Started Podcasts—Introduces New Tools
The free data we generated by spending thousands of hours on Big Tech’s platforms has been appropriated and converted into training data for AI models. To add insult to injury, the corporations that carried out this appropriation are now pretending to be as concerned as we are about AI’s disruptive power, and are even theatrically begging us to regulate their industry as they rake in the profits.
Many issues divide studios and streamers from the striking talent guilds, but one key sticking point involves how writers and actors should be fairly compensated for their work in streaming. And a major complication there is that streaming success remains such an impenetrable formula, influenced by resistance to provide clear data and hard-to-measure factors that cloud what constitutes a “hit.”
Source: Hollywood’s math problem: Getting paid for streaming ‘hits’ first means identifying them | CNN