Tencent Music Entertainment has renewed its multi-year agreement with independent label rights agency Merlin. The renewal will see both organizations deepen their longstanding strategic partnership. Both organizations will “drive the creation of music value and enhance the music experience for TME’s users.” Merlin will also license into TME’s new social music community, WeSing. The renewed […]
Both companies team up to launch a special contest for filmmakers. The following article comes from Jamendo, a proud partner of DMN. Jamendo Licensing and Filmora are launching today a contest focused on filmmakers, video editors and content creators. The goal of #JamendoXFilmora is to provide users with the best tools to create a unique story: […]
About two weeks back, stream-ripping giant FLVTO.biz officially petitioned the Supreme Court in its high-stakes courtroom confrontation with the Recording Industry Association of America. Now, the RIAA has been named in a lawsuit filed by stream-ripping platform Yout. Hartford-based Yout and its legal team recently submitted the complaint to a Connecticut federal court, and Digital […]
With live streaming becoming essential for artists to perform and connect with fans, is this Billie Eilish virtual concert the blueprint for future XR live streaming events? On Saturday night (October 24th), Billie Eilish performed a global virtual concert, Where Do We Go? The Livestream. Performing with Eilish was her singer-songwriter brother, FINNEAS, and touring […]
The RIAA’s battle against YouTube rippers is heating up after the removal of YouTube-DL. Here’s the latest. On Friday, Microsoft-owned GitHub removed the YouTube-DL repository after a request from the RIAA. The removal was in response to the RIAA citing DMCA Section 1201 or removing content that helps bypass copyright protection restrictions. The open-source community […]
More than 6,000 artists have signed a Union of Musicians and Allied Workers petition demanding that Spotify pay at least one cent per stream. Dubbed “Justice at Spotify,” the petition had garnered 6,534 backers at the time of publishing, with the figure having grown by several hundred during the last hour alone. Moreover, the signers’ […]
Joe Rogan has now taken another swipe at ‘woke’ employees and their demands — this time, at Twitter. After calling out ’23-year-old woke kids’ at Spotify who were demanding changes to his podcast, Joe Rogan is now calling out activist employees at Twitter. During a three-hour podcast interview with Kanye West, Rogan bluntly called Twitter […]
Photo Credit: Caspar Camille Rubin Late last month, Twitch launched a pre-cleared song catalog, Soundtrack by Twitch, for creators. Now, the RIAA, the Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), SAG-AFTRA, the Recording Academy, and other prominent music-industry organizations have called out the “solution” in a formal letter. The controversy surrounding Twitch’s […]
TikTok is one of the best music discovery platforms available today. Here’s how to add music to TikTok and get yourself heard on the platform. When TikTok started out, it allowed users to upload any sound or music from their app. However, TikTok discontinued that feature due to copyright concerns. For users to add sounds […]
Photo Credit: Charles Deluvio A YouTube downloader app apocalypse is happening on GitHub, thanks to an RIAA notice. The source code for YouTube-DL was ripped down last night. Visiting the project’s repository yields a message, “the repository is unavailable due to DMCA takedown,” the GitHub page reads. The RIAA is responsible for the takedown, which […]