Complete Music Update

Complete Music Update, which started out as College Music Update, is commonly referred to as CMU or the CMU Daily. It serves as a music news platform and website tailored for professionals in the UK music industry and media. The service mainly focuses on delivering news and insights related to the music business, music media, and the broader music scene. One of its standout features is the daily email newsletter, known as the CMU Daily. The current editor overseeing its operations is Andy Malt.

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Drake’s Super Bowl gripes in amended lawsuit show defamation action is really an attack on Kendrick Lamar’s success, says Universal

5 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

New allegations added to Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit against Universal Music are “astonishing”, says Universal Music. Especially the new complaint about Kendrick Lamar performing Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us’ at the Super Bowl because, by Drake’s own admission, the allegedly defamatory lyric from Lamar’s record wasn’t included in that performance.
Ed Sheeran fans warned about “huge number of ticket scams” around his homecoming shows

5 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Suffolk Trading Standards has said it is expecting to see “a huge number of ticket scams” as Ed Sheeran plays the Portman Road stadium in Ipswich in July. It follows a BBC investigation that found scammers advertising tickets for the shows on social media, priced at up to £190 each, shortly after they went on pre-sale earlier this week.
UK’s Data Bill passes without creative industries’ demands for copyright and AI safeguards

6 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The UK’s House Of Commons yesterday passed the Data Bill without any amendments addressing issues around copyright and AI, despite attempts by MPs to add a section that would force AI companies to comply with various copyright and transparency obligations.
US launches investigation into “unfair and anticompetitive practices” in ticketing

6 days ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The American ticketing business will face what could be the closest scrutiny it has ever experienced via a new public inquiry announced by the US Department Of Justice and Federal Trade Commission yesterday, which will aim “to identify unfair and anticompetitive practices and conduct in the live concert and entertainment industry”. The wide ranging inquiry follows the executive order on ticketing issued by President Donald Trump back in March.
Jay-Z says defamation continues, Buzbee rewrote Wikipedia

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Jay-Z says that the woman who accused him of rape continues to spread that claim, despite previously admitting it’s not true, and voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit where the allegation was originally made. A new legal filing from the rapper hones in on a TikTok video posted last month in which his accuser apparently stated, “You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to get an apology video out of me, I stand on what I said, fuck you”.
Musi faked email from Universal exec in attempt to stop App Store ban says Apple lawyer

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Apple’s legal battle with music app Musi - which it kicked out of its App Store last year - has escalated somewhat. Not only does Apple want the court to dismiss the app developer’s lawsuit, it also wants the judge to sanction Musi and its lawyers for allegedly making false claims in an amended complaint. And this bad conduct is nothing new, Apple says in a new legal filing.
“I just don't understand how that can be fair use”, says judge in Meta AI trial

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The ‘fair use’ defence used by AI companies to justify training their models with unlicensed content was scrutinised in the US courts last week, with the judge overseeing a key lawsuit filed by a group of authors against Meta telling the tech company, “I just don't understand how that can be fair use”. That comment came in the context of the ongoing legal battle between the authors and Meta over its use of content from thousands of books that it torrented to train its Llama model.
UK government veers away from AI copyright exception in latest response to controversial Data Bill

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

The UK government is hoping to further placate MPs that want to include provisions around copyright and AI in the Data Bill that will be debated in the House Of Commons tomorrow by revising its position on a proposed new copyright exception. That proposal isn’t entirely off the table, but ministers say they are no longer favouring any proposals at all until they have worked their way through thousands of submissions made to the government’s recent consultation on copyright and AI.
Jimmy Page sued by ‘Dazed And Confused’ songwriter over Led Zeppelin documentary

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

Led Zeppelin founder and guitarist Jimmy Page and his publisher Warner Chappell have been sued by Jake Holmes, writer of the original version of the song ‘Dazed And Confused’, which was later reworked into the track of the same name on Led Zeppelin’s debut album. The lawsuit centres on recordings of the song by Page’s earlier band The Yardbirds. Holmes says those are recordings of his version of the song, in which he is the sole copyright owner.
Kneecap’s replacement for cancelled gig cancelled

1 week ago | completemusicupdate.com | Chris Cooke

A Kneecap show in Plymouth - which was quickly organised after the band’s performance as part of the Eden Sessions was cancelled earlier this week - has itself been cancelled, based on advice from “relevant authorities and agencies”, according to the venue. It comes as calls continue for UK festivals to drop the controversial rap group from their line-ups, with their scheduled appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival even being discussed in the House Of Commons.