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  • Apple Music goes live: a London venue, a festival stream, and the tools independent artists can actually use

    Apple Music opened a 600-capacity venue in London, streamed its first festival on video and sells DJ mixes that pay the producers whose tracks appear in them. It has also put concert dates on artist pages and same-day release data in Apple Music for Artists. The venue is for stars. The ticketing and data plumbing is where independent artists can get value, as long as they set it up before release day.

    Industryvia Apple Newsroom

  • The Copyright Office's AI training report is still a draft 17 months on, and its critics are using that

    The US Copyright Office's report on generative AI training, released as a "pre-publication version" on 9 May 2025, has never been finalised. Its view that some training is fair use and some isn't, and that market dilution is real harm, is the closest thing music has to an official US position. Litigants cite it, the Justice Department attacks it, and the two big 2025 rulings didn't cite it at all.

    Artist rightsvia US Copyright Office

  • FTC v. Ticketmaster survives dismissal: the BOTS Act and fee claims head to discovery

    On 28 September 2026 a federal judge in Los Angeles refused to throw out the FTC and seven states' case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster over broker-friendly ticket limits and drip pricing. That isn't a finding that the companies broke the law. It does let the case go ahead on the theory that a ticket platform can be liable under the BOTS Act for reselling tickets brokers got around its limits to buy, and that theory is the part of the ruling artists should care about.

    Artist rightsvia US District Court for the Central District of California (copy hosted by TicketNews)

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