Music Publishing News Roundup 10.6.15: Swift Lawsuit • Pan-Euro Licensing Hub • Napster To Canada
Taylor Swift is facing a $42 million lawsuit for alleged plagiarism in her song “Shake It Off”. The lawsuit was filed by Jesse Graham, an obscure R&B singer, who alleges. Continue reading
Streaming Music, Social Media And Damned Statistics
The prevalence of on demand streaming services has caused the current generation of listeners to develop an increasingly fickle relationship with both the music they listen to and the artists who create. Continue reading
THE PITCH: Mixvisor – More Than A Replacement For Bop.fm
THE PITCH today comes from Mixvisor, The startup is creating intelligent emdebable music players that pull information from any web page and music from Apple Music and Spotify. It sounds. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
For some of Hypebot's most popular posts this week, we took a look at where the modern consumer is buying their music, how exactly one makes money from YouTube, how Lorde. Continue reading
SF MusicTech Names 2015 Startup Innovators Challenge Winners
[UPDATED] SF Music Tech has named its 2015 Startup Innovators Challenge winners. Each will be showcasing when SF Music Tech convenes on November 10th. BTW, if you have not registered, do it. Continue reading
Apple Music By The Numbers [Mark Mulligan]
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently announced that Apple Music has 6.5 millions paid subscribers. While a promising figure on its face, it seems unlikely that all these listeners will continue. Continue reading