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...Universal Music in April urged streaming platforms to prevent AI services scraping their songs without permission or payment, the Financial Times reported....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...Under the new rules, which will come into force from April 2025, a person will be able to claim the privileges for four years, down from 15 now....
...App Tracking Transparency, Apple’s privacy policy, was implemented in April 2021....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...He added that his right-hand man’s biggest contribution had been to “support growth investments”, citing how Totoki led the $2.3bn acquisition of EMI Music Publishing in 2018 and aggressive investments in...
...Amid flashing disco lights and upbeat music, he declared to applause from government officials and fans that TikTok would “invest billions” in south-east Asia....
...Crucial will be an off-ramp for the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to save face after it blocked the mega-deal in April, drawing the ire of Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick, who said the initial...
...In February, Amazon lifted the price of a US Prime subscription by $20 to $139, citing higher wage and transportation costs, and its Music Unlimited plan went up $1 to $8.99 a month in April....
...“Everybody has flown in for the first time in three years,” enthused Emi Eu, director of Singapore’s STPI gallery at the opening of her city’s newest fair, Art SG, which runs until Sunday....
...Its scale in music, games and films is well known....
...Hawley’s rich, versatile music amplifies their feelings, sometimes raucous with rage, sometimes delicate with hope, sometimes dizzy with love....
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...The music industry, says Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal, is the model here: Sony, Warner and Universal Music were always more valuable than Spotify, and this Netflix episode should make clear to investors...
...“Pandering to the public, with the namby-pamby music.”...
...To see [the home] is like eating chocolate cake while listening to organ music.”...
...“April added to a very disappointing start to 2022 for our public funds....
...AppleTV+ is streaming them, Apple Arcade has been expanding its library of games and Apple Music, Apple Books and Apple Podcasts continue to add titles and features, such as an improved classical music service...
...Vietnam’s most popular singer, Son Tung, had his music video depicting suicide blocked in April....
...Underlining the Korean music industry’s global ambitions, Hybe Corporation — formally known as Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind BTS — in April completed a $1bn merger with Ithaca Holdings, an American...
...Universal Music Group, which has benefited from the growth of music streaming, saw its shares leap as much as 40 per cent on debut in Amsterdam. 3....
...Endeavor, led by Hollywood impresario Ari Emanuel, was backed by the private equity group Silver Lake for a decade and went public in April. It has a market capitalisation of $12.5bn....
...In April 2020, Sony announced the rollout of a $100m fund to support those affected by Covid-19....
...Direct listings have slowly gathered steam as an alternative to traditional IPOs since the music streaming service Spotify was the first to take the route in the US in 2018....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 1 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
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