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From Warner Music’s leadership shake-up to Suno’s courtroom defiance… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Josh Remsberg appointed Head of Commercial Partnerships at direct-to-fan platform EVEN

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Read Simon Robson’s farewell note to Warner Music staff, as he exits after nearly 30 years

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Warner Music Group Shake-Up: Val Blavatnik joins, Elliot Grainge adds ADA, Simon Robson exits

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ASCAP names Jackson Wagener as Senior Vice President and Head of General Licensing

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BMG’s Jim Selby elected to ASCAP Board of Directors

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Man who pocketed $8m using AI songs and bot streams asks for no prison time, arguing ‘no artist suffered any perceptible harm’

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Sound designers and SFX libraries launch Professional Sound Alliance to fight AI scraping: ‘Now sound will have protection of our own’

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LANDR expands AI fraud detection built with machine learning lab Mila – and says artificial streams flagged by Spotify for music it distributes fell 95% between Q1 2025 and Q2 2026

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Over 50% of a major streaming service’s tracks come from DistroKid – and other revelations from UMG’s lawsuit

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Spotify has set out how it works inside Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent

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Spotify adds share cards, setlist playlists, and a new in-app destination to its Reserved ticketing feature

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Sam Smith and Normani must face a jury over Dancing with a Stranger as judge refuses to end copyright case

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Partisan acquires Firebird’s interest in indie pubco OTM Music, merges it with its Left Music publishing arm

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Erik Wahlberg appointed CEO of Epidemic Group, as Sara Börsvik takes on joint COO and CFO role

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‘As an industry, we’ve confused followers with community.’

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Operation LUMEN targets 317 music piracy sites reaching 5.4 million visitors across Latin America

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We Stopped Waiting to Be Chosen and Mailed 100,000 CDs Instead

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Robert Palmer estate strikes deal with Primary Wave covering publishing and recording catalogs, plus name, image & likeness rights

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ASCAP names Jackson Wagener as Senior Vice President and Head of General Licensing

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