Music Business
J. Cole and Cam'ron Settle Lawsuit
Cam'ron claimed J. Cole had promised to appear on his podcast in return for recording a featured verse on the 2024 track.
J. Cole & Cam’ron Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Ready ’24’ Collab
Cam'ron claimed J. Cole had promised to appear on his podcast in return for recording a featured verse on the 2024 track.
Billboard's Music Industry Events Calendar
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Italy's SIAE Surpasses 1 Billion Euros in Revenue
In 2025, Italy’s collection society surpassed 1 billion euros of revenue, and CEO Matteo Fedeli reflects on the challenges of copyright protection amid innovation.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label With New Album Ruin: It’s Not Just Music
The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
How Italy’s SIAE Is Shaping the Future of Copyright Protection
In 2025, Italy’s collection society surpassed 1 billion euros of revenue, and CEO Matteo Fedeli reflects on the challenges of copyright protection amid innovation.
UMG and Sony seek to add over 61k recordings to Suno lawsuit after discovery reveals AI trained on ‘millions’ of their copyrighted tracks
The labels say they are asserting "only a small fraction" of those recordings – 61,026 works – in the proposed second amended complaint. Source
Billboard Publishes Music Industry Events Calendar
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label, Releases New Album
The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Unveils New Label and Album
The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
Shakira Tax Ruling, Live Nation Case, Charlie Brown Lawsuits & More Top Music Law News
In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, tax headaches for touring artists, a proposal to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster, a Peanuts music battle and much more.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label, Releases New Album
The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
UK competition regulator should urgently investigate live music sector, MPs say, citing “climate of fear” around Live Nation’s dominance
MPs are concerned that Live Nation’s dominance is harming competition in the UK live sector and have called on the Competition & Markets Authority to launch an investigation before the end of the year. It follows the recent jury ruling in the US which said Live Nation operates an unlawful monopoly
Damages in major label lawsuit against Suno could top $9 billion after Sony and Universal add another 61,026 tracks
While there have been some legal settlements, both Suno and Udio are still fighting major label lawsuits. The majors now want to significantly expand the official list of recordings the AI companies have copied without licence, so that potential damages in the two cases go from millions to billions
CMAT had no intention of enlisting “angel” Jamie Oliver for music video: “My label said, ‘We have him’ and I was like ‘Fuck’”
The Irish star recently won her first ever award in the UK, and revealed to NME that she “just assumed I was losing to Lily Allen”
Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio
Sony Music now alleges that Udio "copied and ingested" 30,442 copyrighted works into its generative AI models. Source
Un:hurd Music launches its own ‘tech-enabled marketing agency’
Startup Un:hurd Music has been building its business of marketing-tools for artists, with more than 200,000 signed up. Now it’s launching a new venture for managers and labels called Contxt. It’s described as “a tech-enabled marketing agency” focusing on “teams who want a partner to do the heavy lif
TikTok’s new UMG deal cracks down on unauthorised GenAI music
It’s just over two years since Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their licensing deal after a damaging (and public) fall-out over terms, as well as UMG’s claim that TikTok was “flooded with AI-generated recordings”. That appears to have been a two-year agreement, because late last week the tw
Ozzy Osbourne avatar is ‘not gonna be f***ing lame’ says son
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne died last July, and plans for his legacy are firmly underway – including the announcement last week that he’s the latest musician being turned into a posthumous avatar. Son Jack Osbourne revealed at the Licensing Expo conference that his family are working with metaverse fi
SoundCloud and Overtune strike deal and launch creator contest
Overtune is a popular service for creating music, and SoundCloud is a popular service for creators to upload their music. An opportunity for partnership, you’d think. And now it has come to pass. Overtune will now include a feature to publish tracks directly to SoundCloud, as well as joining the lat