Here is some stuff I wrote in February 2022…

CMU News: Peru’s government talks up web-blocking and IFPI alliance in bid to get off US piracy watch list

CMU News: Mushroom Group launches new management division

CMU Digest: Live Nation, Utopia, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Astroworld, Megan Thee Stallion

CMU News: Utopia buys Absolute Label Services

CMU News: Appeal court judges say Jay-Z is owed royalties for former perfume partner

CMU News: Warner partners with Influence Media and BlackRock on music rights investments

CMU News: Drowned In Sound founder launches new digital consultancy

CMU News: BTS win most successful global recording artist award – again

CMU News: Dispute over Jimi Hendrix Experience catalogue should be heard in UK, say UK-based estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell

CMU News: Judge overseeing Astroworld cases issues gagging order restricting what plaintiffs and attorneys can say

CMU News: Beatport expands its offering for labels via Ampsuite acquisition

CMU News: Live Nation upbeat as it publishes its 2021 figures

CMU News: Megan Thee Stallion goes back to court to dispute label’s definition of “album”

CMU News: SoundCloud partners with management firm Solid Foundation to launch A&R programmes

CMU News: Ben Lovett’s venue business raises $50 million in new finance

CMU News: Meta adds Reels functionality to Facebook in 150+ markets

CMU News: PPL partners with Action For Diversity & Development

CMU News: Industry welcomes latest relaxation of COVID rules, but insists further government support is needed

CMU News: Warner Music announces partnership with Indian pop star Armaan Malik

CMU News: ClicknClear announces new deal with Warner Music

CMU News: Family In Music unveils more of their songwriter tools

CMU News: The O2 hopes to reopen on Friday following roof damage in Storm Eunice

CMU News: New UK hires at Downtown Music Services

CMU News: Music industry has mixed reaction to removal of remaining COVID restrictions in England

CMU News: Iron Maiden celebrate The Number Of The Beast 40th with cassette release

CMU News: Teenage Cancer Trust shows to return next month

CMU Digest: Notorious Markets, AIF boss festival sector warning, AWAL, Dwight Yoakam, Lil Peep

CMU News: Amazon removed but Chinese web giants remain on US government’s big piracy list

CMU News: R Kelly’s lawyer argues for acquittal or retrial in New York sex abuse case

CMU News: Lil Peep negligence case to proceed to trial

CMU News: Former Suge Knight attorney agrees plea deal over conspiracy to pay off a witness in hip hop mogul’s murder case

CMU News: Mariah Carey gets defamation lawsuit filed by her brother cut back, but not dismissed

CMU News: Spotify buys podcasting data companies Podsights and Chartable

CMU News: Movie industry web-blocking order targets cyber-locker

CMU News: Billboard launches a load of new country-specific music charts

CMU News: AIF chief calls for government support for festival sector facing “perfect storm” in 2022

CMU News: Phoebe Bridgers responds to sound engineer’s defamation lawsuit

CMU News: Warner Music settles its big termination rights dispute with Dwight Yoakam

CMU News: Warner Music launches new Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Institute

CMU News: DHP Family buys into Bearded Theory festival

CMU News: UK competition regulator provisionally clears Sony’s acquisition of AWAL

CMU News: US court awards majors nearly $83 million in damages in stream-ripping case

CMU News: Music industry’s anti-piracy operations putting the focus on NFTs and the metaverse

CMU News: Swizz Beatz allies with premium vinyl brand 12on12

CMU News: New global organisation for the radio sector launches

CMU News: Ted Nugent backs Joe Rogan and Spotify against Neil Young

CMU Digest: Spotify, Lil Peep, Pandora, Jimi Hendrix, Global Music Rights

CMU News: Majors hit back at latest attempt by Cox to overturn billion dollar copyright ruling

CMU News: The Great Escape launch new award in honour of the agent Steve Strange

CMU News: Spotify’s big Joe Rogan controversy continues

CMU News: Former Jimi Hendrix collaborators go legal over Experience catalogue

CMU News: Songwriters hit back at Chris Brown and Drake’s “haughty claims” in song-theft dispute

CMU News: Snoop Dogg acquires Death Row Records brand

CMU News: Spotify entering into €280 million sponsorship deal with FC Barcelona, causing various controversies

CMU News: Global Music Rights and Radio Music License Committee confirm five year dispute is over

CMU News: Comedians sue Pandora in dispute over literary work licences

CMU News: Four Tet signs to Universal Music Publishing, Domino albums streaming again

CMU News: Spotify’s Joe Rogan controversy moves onto racist content, prompting new statements

CMU News: RIAA sends stern legal letter to controversial music NFTs site HitPiece

CMU News: Family of Drakeo The Ruler sue promoters of the festival where he was killed

CMU News: AMG/MaDigital joins IMPEL

CMU News: UTA appoints new Director Of Artist Brand Strategy

CMU Digest: Spotify, Warner Music, HitPiece NFTs, Lil Yachty, Lady A

CMU News: Utopia buys Sentric

CMU News: All Time Low go legal over sexual abuse allegations on TikTok and Twitter

CMU News: BMG signs Rita Ora

CMU News: Spotify boycott grows as Young v Rogan fallout continues

CMU News: Opulous says Lil Yachty lawsuit is “meritless”

CMU News: Twitch announces Merlin deal

CMU News: Tiffany Calver launches label in partnership with Polydor

CMU News: Sony music and film businesses in India launch new media talent venture

CMU News: Artists and managers welcome Warner’s commitment to pay royalties to unrecouped heritage artists

CMU News: Lady As trademark battle is over

CMU News: iHeart and Cumulus board members urged to change position on US radio royalties

CMU News: Texas courts consolidate 387 Astroworld lawsuits

CMU News: Artists and labels hit out at unofficial NFTs site that allows people to “own a song”

CMU News: Spotify science podcaster hits out at Spotify’s response to Rogan backlash

CMU News: Warner announces partnership with green NFT firm OneOf

CMU News: FUGA announces deal with Mascot Label Group

CMU News: Sony extends free counselling and well-being services to songwriters

CMU News: European management grouping appoints new Executive Directive, confirms German trade body as new member

CMU News: Tom Gray becomes Chair of the Ivors Academy

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