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...Others, like the lawsuit that Wigdor filed this month against music mogul Sean Combs, are only glimpsed in public....
...“It will be very interesting when the music stops,” she said....
...Ropes & Gray has hired Matthew Czyzyk as a partner in its business restructuring group in London and Matt Jones as an executive compensation partner in the Chicago office....
...It’s a double whammy for Schneider....
...Helen Smith, executive chair of Impala, a lobby group for the music industry that favours the copyright reforms, said Google was engaged in the “blatant manipulation of newspapers”....
...Few of us think about the millions of servers facilitating our everyday online activity until they stop us from buying tickets to a hotly anticipated football match, music festival or theatre production....
...It has also lent money and invested in music catalogues, with recent deals include the Rolling Stones exhibition and Real Madrid touring experience, which recently began in Australia....
...Matthew Capasso, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy A direct listing is a daring introduction to public markets even for a company as innovative as Spotify....
...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s global media editor. HBO’s ‘The Defiant Ones’ premieres in the US on July 9 Portraits by Molly Matalon Photographs: Getty Images...
...From humble beginnings running public relations for a Cleveland nightclub, he took a job as an agent at Music Corporation of America....
...Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, said he was also worried about the consequences of the “dangerous” decision he made to drop the site....
...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s global media editor...
...Breitbart, who died unexpectedly in 2012 aged 43, was not a typical conservative — he once told the FT he enjoyed late 1980s dance music culture — but found himself appalled by Mr Thomas’s treatment by Senate...
...Minister of State for Digital and Culture Matthew Hancock said last week that “enforcement and fair treatment of rights owners is critical to healthy creative industries”....
...largest recorded music group, in 2013....
...Additional reporting by Matthew Garrahan and Gloria Cheung...
...The rapid growth of Apple Music, which launched in more than 100 countries in June, raises the stakes in streaming, a form of distribution that offers hope to the music industry after more than a decade...
...The departure of one of Apple’s most senior music executives will also surprise the music industry, which has pinned its hopes on the success of the company’s music streaming strategy....
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...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s global media editor. Ben McLannahan is the FT’s US banking editor....
...“Seeing Apple Music on that Apple stage was the culmination of a 20-year professional journey,” Mr Rogers said....
...In its letter, the Vivendi-owned entertainment group said it was not colluding with Sony Music, Warner Music or Apple to “impede the availability of free or ad-supported music streaming services” or restrict...
...Mr Iovine, the music industry veteran and former Beats chief executive who is running Apple Music, is a vocal opponent of free music....
...Some of music’s biggest stars have also launched their own music streaming service this week, called Tidal....
...The technology companies have realised that, like photo sharing and music apps, news can attract and retain users of their mobile services....
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