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CMU Podcast: Apple Music, Ed Sheeran, UK Music, Deadmau5
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 26 June 2015
CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Taylor Swift causing a u-turn on Apple Music’s royalties policy, Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ spending a year in the Top 40, the music industry’s win against the government on the private copy right, and Deadmau5’s latest legal escapades. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.
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Stories discussed this week:
Taylor Swift v Apple Music
• Apple u-turns on royalty free trial after Taylor Swift speaks
• Indie groups endorse revised Apple Music deal
• Concert photographer criticises Taylor Swift’s rights demands
• Taylor Swift rep say photographer agreement “misrepresented”, as second contract emerges
Ed Sheeran track spends a year in the Top 40
• Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ spends a full year in the Top 40
Private copy right ruling
• Music industry wins judicial review on private copy levy
• MU chief welcomes High Court’s private copy right ruling
Deadmau5 v Deadmouse: The Musical and Disney
• CMU Beef Of The Week #258: Deadmau5 v Deadmouse: The Musical
• Deadmau5 reaches settlement with Disney over trademark dispute
Listen to this week’s CMU Approved artists:
• The Radio Dept
• The Chemical Brothers & St Vincent
• Svē
• Death Team
What we didn’t have time to talk about:
• Second Tidal CEO steps down
• Google launches free, ad-funded Google Play Music app
• Australia passes web-blocking laws
• MU lobbies for agent of change principle
• Scarlet Mist returns
• Live sector raises concerns over business rates being applied to festival sites
• SFX sells $10 million in stock, despite Sillerman’s planned share buy-back
• TFI Friday to return for eight edition series
• Kanye concedes that Beck does in fact respect artistry
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