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...A spokesperson said that deal expired earlier this year but as part of the contract it will carry on administering the songs — and collecting a fee for doing so — “for a period of time”....
...In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...And for music companies, they’re kind of in the business of just making bets. That’s almost the same as like book publishers....
...That’s a very interesting trend because, again, that’s a place where you’re giving users control of their spending, of how they interact, of what content they have....
...Surely the hunt to get young users hooked on a platform as soon as possible, as part of running a profitable business, is at odds with caring for their wellbeing?...
...Have an incredible weekend and we’ll find each other again next week. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
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...Have a lovely weekend and we’ll find each other again on Monday....
...Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio, and our theme song is by Metaphor Music. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...Initially, she resisted doing anything so “lame” as to enter the family business, unlike her cousins Nicolas Cage or Jason Schwartzman, her aunt Talia Shire, brother Roman, grandparents, uncle and most others...
...Sources tell the FT that Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ voices for AI-generated songs....
...Then again, it might....
...Thanks for listening and please join me again next week. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...Original music and sound engineering by Breen Turner. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio. We’ll meet again here next week. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer and our global head of Audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Mayer, Lew Wasserman, who created MCA Universal, which is now Universal, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who formed DreamWorks - these were people who commanded a certain amount of respect...
...You’ve heard original tunes this week by Metaphor Music....
...And they had a lot of books that were considered sort of universal and human. And I really . . . I related to it as to a human universal document and not at all a Russian one....
...So it’s a set of environmental conditions for doing business — contracts, multilateral institutions — and it comes in many layers. At the deepest level it’s really the system of sovereignty....
...The former chief business officer at YouTube joins as the music industry is riding a wave of streaming revenues....
...And as you also say, it created vast changes. So I find the fact of a backslash not terribly surprising. I also recognise that historically autocracy is the normal way of doing things....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Isabel BerwickThis week on Working It with me, Isabel Berwick, we’re doing something different....
...But, you know, again, would he be that interested in doing it? It’s very hard work in opposition when you’ve suffered a bad defeat....
...Blau, who last February sold $12mn in NFTs attached to his songs, wants to scale that into a business through which ordinary fans can own music, “as opposed to just record labels, private equity and hedge...
...Today Universal artists typically make up nine out of 10 of the top-charting songs in any week....
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