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YMC Episode 301 — May 11, 2026
On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these timely music industry stories:
- Rap On Trial: The Long Battle to Keep Hip-Hop Lyrics Out of Court.
- The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Indy music orgs say artists won't be able to afford it.
- Spotify wins motion for arbitration in 'payola' lawsuit.
- Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI training in answer to Sony Music lawsuit.
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