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1. Remember ‘Say No To Suno’? Someone just hired a plane to fly it over an AI investor summit… featuring Mikey Shulman.

   Its location in the skies was significant – directly over the UBS AI in Entertainment Summit at the Shutters on the Beach hotel, where Suno CEO Mikey Shulman was among the speakers.

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2. Concord invests in and strikes strategic partnership with Lito Music, the company founded by Latin hip-hop & reggaeton artist Lito MC Cassidy

   The deal expands Concord’s presence in Latin music

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3. A bill moving through Congress could change who controls the US Copyright Office. Here’s why it matters for the music business.

   Who controls the machinery of copyright in the United States, and what happens to music if that control shifts?

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4. Canada walks back plan to make US audiovisual streaming services pay a bigger Canadian-content levy

   The measures were announced by Marc Miller, Canada's Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages.

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5. Julian Franzoni appointed General Manager for Argentina and Uruguay at Warner Chappell Music

   Franzoni joined WCM in 2016 and rose through the ranks in the A&R team

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6. Fast-growing producer royalty company mprs is now buying producer catalogs – in partnership with Milk & Honey

   Founded in 2021, mprs – pronounced 'Empress' – was spun out of artist management and services company mtheory when Universal Music Group acquired mtheory's label division

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7. YouTube Music’s Foundry program – which counts Dua Lipa and Rosalía among its alumni – names 2026 class including Drake collaborator Julia Wolf

   YouTube credited the program with helping launch the careers of artists including Dua Lipa, Rosalía and Tems.

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8. ‘People don’t just want hits. They want honesty.’

   Tunde Balogun, CEO of LVRN (Love Renaissance), maps out how the company he cofounded in Atlanta with Sean Famoso McNichol, Justice Baiden, Junia Abaidoo, and Carlon Ramong went from college parties to over 30B streams and a $100m+ valuation.

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9. Copyright lawsuit against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over ‘Telekinesis’ dropped

   The move comes less than three months after a federal judge in Manhattan declined to throw the case out of court, rejecting the defendants' bid for dismissal.

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10. Label The Slop.

    The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham

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