This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.

As the deal to sell TikTok’s US operations enters its final weeks, ByteDance appears to be ready to celebrate an *extremely* profitable 2025.

Ready Player Me emerged during Peak Metaverse Hype a few years ago, with a focus on avatars. Now it is being acquired by Netflix.

Universal Music Group’s dealmaking team has been on a tear in 2025, and its final deal of the year appears to be with Roblox.

Here's part four of our look-back at the key talking points around AI and music in 2025, with a view to what might happen next in 2026.

Every year, music-industry economist Will Page publishes his ‘Global Value of Music Copyright’ report. The one for 2024 is out now.

Already one of the most active acquirers of music companies in recent times, Create Music Group ends 2025 with one more flash of its wallet.

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The British government has been running a consultation on potential changes to UK copyright law focusing on AI training. It included canvassing opinions on four options. The first was leaving ...

The platform formerly known as Twitter is in the bad books of the European Commission, and expensively so. The EC is fining X €120m ($104m at current exchange rates) for “breaching its transparency ...