With a move to a new venue after 12 years at its previous location, the annual LIVE UK Summit conference and networking event for the live music industry is adding new panels and features to the one-day event.
Under the banner New Venue, New Date, New Focus, the event is set to take place on Wednesday 30 October at London's new Hard Rock Hotel and its convention space Great Cumberland Place.
New conference sessions include Everyday People, covering diversity and gender balance...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: Industry Event News
The major record companies have sued American internet service provider RCN over its copyright infringing customers.
The net firm, says the labels, failed to properly implement its own takedown and repeat infringer policies and therefore should not be allowed to rely on safe harbour protection to avoid liability for its users' infringement. And if that sounds very familiar, that's because this is pretty much a carbon copy of three existing lawsuits filed by the labels against three other...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
Talking of the majors suing ISPs over their infringing customers – which you were, admit it, you were – let's check back in on the record industry's legal battle with Cox Communications. Because the back and forth between the labels and the ISP continues.
In the latest court filing in the case, Cox is demanding that the Recording Industry Association Of America hand over internal reports relating to the Copyright Alert System that the big music and movie companies set up with...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
Tencent Music is under investigation by China's competition regulator over those exclusivity deals it has with the majors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The exclusivity deals have been an unusual feature of the Chinese digital market for years. Record companies often do a deal with a single digital firm which then not only gets access to that label's music for its own service (or services in Tencent's case) but also becomes the exclusive distributor of that catalogue in the Chinese...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
In the ongoing legal battle over the 2008 Universal archive fire, the major label has now attempted to pick off one more of the artists named on the class action lawsuit that seeks damages in relation to the blaze, that being Soundgarden.
Despite the lawsuit's claim that Universal has never informed any artists of the status of their masters after the fire, the company says it told Soundgarden about said statuses four whole years ago. To that end, in a legal filing yesterday Universal...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
BBC Radio 2 is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band The Beatles releasing their 'Abbey Road' album with a pop-up DAB station. Radio 2 Beatles will run for four days next month broadcasting live and direct from, yeah, you guessed it, Abbey Road Studios.
How will they ever fill four days with nothing but stuff relating to the band The Beatles though? Well, by finding some famous fans of the band The Beatles to present a show.
And it turns out there's plenty of them. Gary...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
A US company involved in a unsuccessful bid to build an arena in Bristol (see issue 225) is revealed to be making a concerted effort to create a rival venue to the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena.
Los Angeles-based Oak View Group (OVG), which also owns US live industry publication Pollstar, is hoping to build a 20,000-capacity arena in the Eithad Campus, the site of Manchester City football club's Eithad Stadium (cap. 63,000) in Eastlands.
Feasibility studies are already underway,...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from Live UK
London based Festicket has secured a contract to be exclusive UK and Europe ticket partner for America's 125,000-capacity Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
The event takes place over two weekends, 10-12 and 17-18 April 2020, in the southern California desert.
Festicket is offering booking support in eight languages and a range of options, with packages starting from £631 per night for weekend 1 tickets, camping and parking.
"We created Festicket to help people...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from Live UK
MORE THAN 250 creditors are owed in excess of £4.5 million by the former operator of the Preston Guildhall (cap. 2,034) and Charter Theatre (780) complex, following its collapse into administration in June.
Among the many suppliers, show productions and promoters owed money are music industry companies including Primary Talent International which is owed £20,550, Live Nation Entertainment (£10,000), and Triple A Entertainment Group (£78,000).
An act represented...
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from Live UK
Cardiff is a step closer to gaining a 15,000-capacity arena after the local council revealed plans to go to tender for a developer to build and operate a venue in Cardiff Bay.
The council said planning consent could be achieved by 2020, with the arena potentially opening in December 2023.
Should that be achieved, it would mean the arrival of two new similarly sized arenas within months of each other and only 40 miles by road separating them.
Posted on: 29/08/2019Categories: News from Live UK