Tag: Music
Meta Faces New Antitrust Probe In Italy After Pulling Music
On Friday, Italy's antitrust authority announced that it had implemented measures against Meta Platforms following allegations of abuse of power in the country. The...
The European Commission’s Investigation Into Music Streaming: Why Spotify Has Good...
By: Damien Geradin (The Platform Law Blog)
Yesterday, group of app developers and trade associations urged the Commission to take swift action to bring Apple’s anticompetitive conduct...
Warner Music Group Signs On To SoundCloud’s Artist-Friendly Payment Model
By: Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
When Soundcloud launched its artist-friendly fan-powered royalty system last year, the model was only available for independent artists subscribed to the streamer’s paid...
UK Watchdog To Probe Music Streaming Market
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Tuesday, October 19, that it will be carrying out a market study into the music...
Internet Technology and Its Role in the Price of Concert Tickets
The price of tickets for live music performances has increased markedly over the past few decades. While many explanations have been proffered by academics...
Music Streaming: Is It a Level Playing Field?
The dramatic growth of music streaming over recent years is potentially very positive. Streaming provides consumers with low cost, easy access to a wide...
What’s Yours Is Mine: What a Seventy-Year-Old Recording Industry Consent Decree...
In the waning days of the Trump administration, the DOJ moved to terminate a 70-year-old consent decree that required Decca Records — once one...
Competition Law in the Digitized Music Industry: The Winners Take It...
The last two decades have seen the music industry crash and emerge from the ashes, more digitized but also more consolidated. New players, in...
Long Tail or Bottleneck: What’s Next for Spotify?
This paper discusses the evolution of the music industry in the digital era, the emergence of interactive streaming, and the strategy behind the Spotify...
Apple/Shazam: Data Is Power, But Not A Problem Here
December 2018
CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents:
Apple/Shazam: Data Is Power, But Not A Problem Here By...