In the letter, Sirota highlights the organization’s successes over the past year, lays out its ambitions for 2025 and reveals a new AI program with an unnamed partner. …
In the letter, Sirota highlights the organization’s successes over the past year, lays out its ambitions for 2025 and reveals a new AI program with an unnamed partner. …
The indie licensing organization has announced opposition to “any product…that has been trained on Merlin members’ music without permission.” …
The independent label and distributor, which previously used Merlin for its TikTok license, has reached a deal with the short-form video app individually. …
The platform’s refusal to work with Merlin on licensing deals sets a “dangerous precedent” for independent artists and their labels, writes A2IM’s Richard James Burgess. …
Not quite. But the platform’s decision to bypass Merlin to strike deals directly with independent labels could hurt the sector’s negotiating leverage. …
IMPALA, AIM and A2IM are accusing the powerful platform of trying to divide the independent sector by boycotting licensing talks with the organization. …
TikTok says it wants to enter “direct deals with Merlin members.” Merlin reads it as TikTok “fragmenting” their membership to try to “minimize” licensing payments for indie music. …
Also this week: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum elects Jody Williams as chair and OTM Music adds new heads of U.S. sync and A&R. …