Chris Cooke
Co-Founder, Managing Director and Publisher at Complete Music Update
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1 week ago |
witn.com | Chris Cooke
PLYMOUTH, N.C. (WITN) - County & town officials say the Washington County Sheriff’s Office is helping Plymouth as it deals with police staffing issues. The new agreement brings more law enforcement presence to Plymouth without the town having to hire more police officers. Under the agreement, Washington County Manager, Curtis Potter, says that Washington County deputies will give extra patrol to Plymouth. We’re told the town is paying the deputies overtime for their efforts.
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completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke |Sam Taylor
An influential member of the European Parliament, who chairs a committee that oversees competition issues within the European Union, has formally asked the European Commission to comment on Universal Music’s proposed acquisition of Downtown Music, specifically referencing the major’s influence over streaming business models and the “mass demonetisation of certain music”.
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completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke
A group of ten law professors have submitted a so called amicus brief as part of the AI copyright legal battle between several authors and Meta setting out the arguments for why training AI models with existing content does not qualify as ‘fair use’ under American copyright law. It follows the recent submission of another amicus brief by four different professors who argued the opposite.
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completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke
The deadline for submissions to the UK government’s consultation on secondary ticketing was earlier this month. In the twelve weeks that ministers were accepting submissions, one of the biggest ticket resale platforms, good old Viagogo, continued to “engage in misleading and potentially unlawful practices”, according to a leading pressure group.
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completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke
A letter signed by thousands of music creators and publishers has expressed concern that the latest US Copyright Office inquiry into the country’s performing rights organisations, like BMI and ASCAP, was prompted by correspondence from three Congress members that “focused solely on the perspective of music licensees and failed to consider our perspective as songwriters, composers and music publishers”.
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So the big news in Leyton this week, the 24 hour ASDA I live next door to doesn't seem to be a 24 hour ASDA anymore. Which means I can no longer do my shopping at 3am. Which I never did, but I always liked the idea that I could. https://t.co/jZ7wMUBHFP
Un-Convention have announced dates for their 2025 Manchester edition - 20 and 21 Nov - which would be exciting on its own, but even more exciting, we will once again be presenting an edition of our MIME Conference right alongside it on 22 Nov: https://t.co/3IVofVxq0p https://t.co/5XR2buOwQS
Looking forward to visiting Bremen for the first time later this month to attend Jazzahead! I'll be speaking as part of the Professional Program. Mentioning it now because I remembered to book my flights and fill out the delegate form earlier, so I'm feeling very organised. https://t.co/sb0EtTkjPQ