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Newsletter for Legal created at May 28, 2026 06:50

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Recent Legal Disputes & Music Industry Updates: Settlements, Lawsuits, and Partnerships

This newsletter is about recent legal disputes in the music industry, including settlement agreements reached between Warner Music Group and Crumbl, as well as Cam'ron and J. Cole. It also covers Sony Music Entertainment's request to expand its copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music platform Udio and Ticketmaster's partnership with SM Prime Holdings to launch SM Ticketmaster in the Philippines. Additionally, it discusses Canada's decision to triple the levy on online streaming platforms and Spotify's hiring of researcher Julian Parker for their 'artist-first AI' initiative. Other topics include Kakao Entertainment's Global-K Chart for K-pop rankings and the UK House of Commons committee's accusations against Live Nation for unfair competition practices in the live music industry.

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Warner Music and Crumbl reach settlement in $24M copyright infringement lawsuit over TikTok posts - Music Business Worldwide 0.95 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Udio’s licensed AI music app will be called Starstruck, with four creation modes for fans (Report) - Music Business Worldwide 0.9 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio - Music Business Worldwide 0.9 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Damages in major label lawsuit against Suno could top $9 billion after Sony and Universal add another 61,026 tracks 0.9 Complete Music Update (CMU) 0 0
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J. Cole and Cam’ron settle $500K lawsuit over ‘Ready ’24’ royalties - Music Business Worldwide 0.9 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Ticketmaster expands into the Philippines through SM Prime partnership - Music Business Worldwide 0.85 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Spotify and major music DSPs on alert as Canada triples streaming tax to 15% - Music Business Worldwide 0.85 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Stability AI’s Julian Parker, a key researcher behind Stable Audio, joins Spotify’s ‘artist-first AI’ team – days after streamer’s landmark UMG remix deal - Music Business Worldwide 0.85 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Kakao’s Melon, Tencent Music, and Line Music to launch unified K-pop chart that pools streaming data from South Korea, China, and Japan - Music Business Worldwide 0.85 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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Live Nation faces calls for another competition investigation as UK lawmakers flag live music market dominance - Music Business Worldwide 0.85 Music Business Worldwide 0 0
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