In addition to the pro-rata and user-centric models discussed in detail in part 14 , there are other alternative approaches to...

In addition to the pro-rata and user-centric models for distributing music streaming revenues, which were highlighted in part 15 , a...

As we saw in part 14 of the series on the streaming economy , most music creators receive so little revenue from streaming music that it...

Although the disputes between some superstars and Spotify have ended in favour of the Swedish streaming service, Swift & Yorke have...

In the US, the advance of music streaming has revealed the limitations of the existing copyright system, which was still entirely focused...

Music rights are the main fuel of the music streaming economy. Music streaming services need licences to use the rights in order to...

Spotify has repeatedly been criticised for underpaying artists, while keeping around 30 per cent of its revenue from music streaming. The...

The key to understanding the music streaming economy is the business model of the music streaming services, which has emerged in the...

On 3 April 2018, Spotify went public on Wall Street in New York. However, the path to this IPO was anything but straightforward and was...

Spotify is by far the world’s leading music streaming service. This success was anything but pre-programmed, and aside from the marketing...

This blog post takes a closer look at the music streaming services that have been forced to shut down and disappeared from the market. It...

German music streaming service SoundCloud was originally conceived not as a streaming service but as a social media platform for...

Tidal, originally founded in Norway as WiMP, is a good example of a high-fidelity music streaming service that has struggled economically...

As we have seen, Spotify was not the pioneer of music streaming. Other services, such as RealNetworks/Rhapsody or MOG, had been around...

The international music streaming market is firmly in the hands of technology companies, and it is telling that Spotify also defines...

Twenty years ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) Online Music Report first mentioned music streaming...

As we saw in part 14 of the series using the example of the AI company Anthropic, the music majors are already taking legal action...

We saw in part 17 of the series that voice clones such as ‘Fake Drake’ raise copyright issues, although the legal situation in the US and...

In mid-April 2023, there was a lot of excitement when the song “Heart on My Sleeve” appeared on the Internet and went viral. It features...

As we saw in part 15 of the series ‘AI in the Music Industry’, artificial intelligence will not have a copyright personality for the...