Music streaming service Audiomack has partnered with royalty tracking platform Mogul to enable half a million active creators to manage their Audiomack royalties alongside other revenue streams. The collaboration is designed to help independent artists track and collect the royalties they’re owed more accurately, according to a joint release,
Source: Audiomack teams up with Mogul to bring royalty tracking to its creators
Europe’s music listeners have become huge fans of domestic artists, with local acts dominating their respective countries’ Top 10 lists. However, the continent is falling behind other parts of the world, both in terms of exporting music and in terms of recorded music revenue growth. So says the inaugural Music in the EU report, released Tuesday (September 10) by global recorded music industry group IFPI.
Source: Local artists absolutely dominate EU charts, but Europe falling behind on music exports: IFPI
Artificial intelligence datasets form the bedrock of modern systems. As tech giants and researchers push the boundaries of machine capabilities, the data they use quietly shapes the future of technology — for better or worse. The more relevant, high-quality information an AI system processes, the better it performs. This reality has sparked intense competition for data, with companies racing to amass ever-larger collections of text, images and other information.
Source: AI Explained: Inside the World of Datasets | PYMNTS.com
Lawyers for UMPG, Concord and ABKCO called Anthropic’s motion to dismiss a “delaying” tactic. Anthropic last month filed a motion with the US District Court for the Northern District of California to have a large part of the copyright infringement case against it dismissed, which, if granted, would eliminate three of the four charges brought against it.
U.S. antitrust enforcers are intervening early to examine whether a handful of big tech companies such as Nvidia are using their leverage to establish dominance over the burgeoning artificial-intelligence market. The Justice Department’s antitrust division has already contacted Nvidia, whose AI chip market share is estimated at over 80%, to ask questions about the terms of its contracts and partnerships, according to people familiar with the matter.
Source: Nvidia Draws Antitrust Scrutiny as Enforcers Signal Early Interest in AI
Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding up audiobook production for the platform. The US-only beta test was announced on Audible’s creator marketplace and will be extended to rights holders like authors, agents, and publishers “later this year,” according to Amazon.
Source: Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI
Google and the Department of Justice are facing off again, this time in a trial about whether Google has a monopoly in advertising technology markets. The trial kicks off on September 9th in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. The DOJ argues that Google has unfairly locked up the market for ad tech tools that publishers and advertisers rely on to monetize their websites and market their goods.
Source: US v. Google redux: all the news from the ad tech trial
Perplexity, an AI “answer” engine startup, made headlines in July when it unveiled a revenue-sharing program, partnering initially with Fortune, Der Spiegel, Texas Tribune, and WordPress. The tech platform aims to expand its collaborations, particularly with international media outlets, by year’s end. The idea of working with publishers came before a recent wave of criticism and accusations of plagiarism from Forbes and Wired – which Shevelenko attributes to a misunderstanding of how the product works.
Source: How AI ‘answer’ engine Perplexity plans to collaborate with publishers
Gaming giant Roblox is doubling down on its music offerings as it seeks to become “a destination for organic and immersive music discovery.” On Friday (September 6), at the annual Roblox Developers Conference (RDC), the platform announced three new music-related features. First up, Roblox formally announced its DistroKid integration, which enables DK’s artists to make their music available to Roblox’s 80 million daily active users.
Source: Roblox launches music charts as part of push into music discovery
Given the labels’ dominance of the negotiating hierarchy, song rights revenue can never top 20% of the finite streaming revenue pot. Subscriber rate hikes mean the pot gets bigger (which Spotify and the labels love), but the song share of the pot doesn’t change. Against that reality, direct licensing of mechanicals won’t fix anything. It runs contrary to all principles of copyright law.