Drake’s taken the Kendrick Lamar beef from the court of public opinion to actual court. This week, Drake’s attorneys made a pair of legal filings that state their intent to find out if Universal Music Group, the parent company of his label Republic Records, sought to artificially boost the acclaim …
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Drake is doubling down in his ongoing legal war against his own label and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” filing a new legal action in Texas that alleges Universal Music Group knowingly allowed Lamar to call him a “certified pedophile” as it sought to “drive consumer hysteria and, of course, …
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Universal Music Group responded to Fred Durst’s fraud lawsuit for the first time last week, saying the Limp Bizkit frontman’s allegations against the company were “based on a fallacy” while motioning for the case to be tossed. “Plaintiffs’ entire narrative that UMG tried to conceal royalties is a fiction,” the …
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“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” is one of the holiday season’s most iconic songs, shooting back up the charts every year and hitting Number One in 2023, 65 years after the song’s debut. But the world’s largest record company is looking to take the track to an even more global …
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Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has sued Universal Music Group, accusing the world’s largest record company of withholding millions of dollars in royalties owed to the band. In the suit, filed in federal court on Tuesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Durst and his attorneys claim that UMG “designed and …
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The world’s largest record companies have filed a massive lawsuit against Verizon, accusing the telecom giant of enabling and profiting from “massive copyright infringement committed by tens of thousands of its subscribers.” In a lawsuit filed in federal court late last week, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony …
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Universal Music Group announced a partnership with an AI music tech startup called SoundLabs on Tuesday, with the largest music company in the world set to use the deal to offer AI voice model tech to its roster in the coming months. UMG’s artists and record producers will be able …
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Universal Music Group and TikTok have reached a new licensing agreement, the companies announced, ending their months-long dispute and bringing UMG’s catalog back to the short-form video platform. UMG first announced in an open letter at the end of January that it hadn’t reached an agreement with TikTok, citing several …
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On Tuesday, Cody Fry’s record label, UMG-owned Decca Records, had promising news for the soulful pop singer: His single “Things You Said” had blown up on Douyin, (TikTok‘s separate mainland Chinese counterpart). Fry was excited, readying a plan to capitalize on an unexpected viral moment. The excitement ended within hours, …
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The silencing of Universal Music Group’s artists on TikTok has become the talk of the music industry ahead of the Grammys, as fans and UMG-signed artists have been vocal about the licensing rift between the major label and the massively popular social media app. Of the artists who have thus …
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