With Universal Music Group and TikTok clashing over licensing terms, a number of tracks on Billboard's TikTok Top 50 chart can no longer be used on the app
The biggest company in the business launched a nuclear strike. Here’s what that means for other rights holders.
Atlantic business affairs EVP Michael Kushner was honored with the Entertainment Law Initiative Service Award at the organization's annual Grammy Week event.
As the music giant's catalog leaves TikTok, other music businesses and organizations are offering their takes on the unfolding situation.
The removal of UMG's songwriters from the platform might prove to be even more impactful than its superstar artists.
The publisher is blasting the social platform for "willfully underpaying artists" by using "a decades-old canard that has no place in any modern music business."
The music giant's decision to remove its catalog from the social platform will reverberate throughout the entire business.
In an open letter, the music giant has accused the wildly popular platform of "trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music."
Media business layoffs are hitting the music industry, with more to come from Universal Music and perhaps other labels.
While some major labels are touting YouTube as an important partner in the evolving world of music and AI, not everyone in the industry has been as enthusiastic about these new efforts.
