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...The rise of generative AI has bred a surge in “deepfake” songs that can convincingly mimic the voices, lyrics or sound of established artists, often without their consent....
...In December he signed a “strategic partnership” with Universal Music Greater China, a division of the world’s biggest record label....
...BMG, which is a European rival to the US music groups of Universal, Warner and Sony, said that the appointment would bring forward a long-planned change of leadership at the division that had originally...
...Although it is still dwarfed by the industry giants of Universal Music Group and Sony’s music division, which earned revenues of $10bn apiece last year, and Warner Music Group, which brought in $6bn, it...
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...He carried out a gruelling battle for control of Lagardère and spun out Universal Music Group before following through on a long publicly declared promise to retire last year on the 200th anniversary of...
...Manuela Saragosa was the executive producer and Breen Turner, the sound engineer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...shortly before, that he’s actually in danger of widening divisions in Europe or has done so....
...A code-generating system from Microsoft’s GitHub division is already coming up with 40 per cent of the code produced by software developers who use the system, according to the company....
...The appeal of the ideas remains universal because the idea of living in a society where everybody is treated equally under the rule of law and where the public has some influence over who leads it remains...
...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...
...We look for something deeper than a clip, more meditative than a sound bite, more touching than a tweet....
...But by selling off just enough of EMI’s parts to placate regulators, Universal emerged with a market share of roughly 40 per cent, something no music company had enjoyed before....
...On the heels of its explosive IPO, Universal Music Group is putting more deals in the pipeline....
...Streeting, with his light cockney accent, frequent references to his background and avoidance of jargon, does not sound like a typical politician....
...Our music is a division of labour between composers, performers and audiences, and it is a peculiarly western tragedy. Where did we go wrong?...
...“My economic lesson to Rishi [Sunak] would be: why do you think the then head of Disney [Michael Eisner] came to see me about setting up a theatre division?...
...sacrosanct electronics division on a par with games, movies and music....
...Mr Cook made his name at Ministry of Sound before joining Warner 12 years ago to run Asylum Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic....
...I don't want to sound negative, but it is an orderly retreat,” said Sea-jin Chang , a professor at the National University of Singapore and author of Sony vs Samsung....
...Warner’s Arts Music division operates a group of labels including Sesame Street Records, home to the music of the eponymous children’s television show, which it relaunched last year....
...A music business with a weighty back catalogue that included The Beatles and Pink Floyd and a lucrative, royalty-generating publishing division, appeared to brim with opportunity....
...Music’s power as a “universal language” spurred the pianist and conductor Gianluca Marcianò to found the Suoni dal Golfo (Sounds of the Bay) festival in his hometown last year....
...Sitting beneath a giant TV screen in his office near London Bridge, a long way from the UK music industry’s centre of gravity around Kensington High Street, where the three majors — Warner, Universal and...
...Warner Music has promoted its UK chief to run its global recorded music division, as the record company behind Coldplay looks to shore up its management structure in a race to capture the ears of music streamers...
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