IFPI’s latest research into music consumption on a global basis reveals that 45% of fans are engaging with licensed audio streaming.
The figure, based on research conducted by Ipsos Connect ...
Despite the deep connections between the music industry and tech giants, it remains an uneasy relationship at times. The YouTube value gap is a recurring gripe with Google, along with ...
The BPI is the latest record label industry body to respond with a degree of incredulity to the widely discussed blog by YouTube’s head of music, Lyor Cohen. The ...
Music industry trade bodies have welcomed moves at the European Parliament that take the European Union another step closer to new copyright legislation – and the potential closing of the ...
CISAC has slammed the value gap created by tech giants such as YouTube as “the most significant challenge we face today” in its annual report.
Over the past year, global ...
Time was when you could come to MIDEM and barely hear an artist’s name mentioned. Not any more: day two of the French conference’s 2017 was all about those that ...
CISAC’s general assembly is set to meet in Lisbon to discuss the future of the creative industry and to urge Governments to legislate for fair remuneration.
CISAC, the International Confederation ...
There are now three certainties in life: death, taxes and that the IFPI will use the annual publication of its global music report to bang on about the so-called ‘value ...
The IFPI has issued a statement which says YouTube is not paying “anything like a fair rate” to the music industry.
The body, which represents the recording industry worldwide, released ...
A coalition of over 20 American organisations representing songwriters, artist managers, indie and major labels, music publishers and collecting societies have taken the unprecedented step to write a letter to ...