Industry News·Jul 25, 2026Congress Wants StubHub's CEO to Explain the Fund Reselling on His Own PlatformHouse Democrats are demanding answers from StubHub CEO Eric Baker over his stake in a ticket-reselling fund on his own marketplace.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 24, 2026Patreon Just Cut 20% of Its Staff. If You Sell Direct to Fans, Pay Attention.Patreon is laying off 93 people even as its CEO calls the business 'healthy and strong.' Here is what it means for artists who sell direct.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 21, 2026Sony Just Filed a Second Udio Lawsuit Rather Than Accept a Judge's Limit. Read the Divergence.Sony filed a fresh Udio suit covering 30,000-plus recordings, splitting from Universal and Warner and setting up a catalog-scale precedent fight.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 20, 2026Indonesia Wants to Ban AI From Cloning Your Artists. Google Is Already Pushing Back.Indonesia's copyright rewrite would outlaw AI style-cloning and put training data under licensing. Here's why it matters for labels across the Global South.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 17, 2026States Demand Discovery Into White House Talks Behind the Live Nation SettlementState AGs want documents on who really shaped the DOJ's Live Nation deal, and whether the White House had a hand in it.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 16, 2026Suno's Leaked Source Code Names the Streaming Services It ScrapedA hacker handed Suno's internal code to 404 Media, and it names YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 11, 2026The Music Industry Just Agreed on How to Label AI. The Streaming Services Did Not.The RIAA, Grammys and SAG-AFTRA rolled out a unified AI music labeling standard. The catch: no DSP has to use it.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 4, 2026Bob Vylan Are Suing the BBC. This Is How an Artist Fights Back Against a Broadcaster's Framing.The duo is using defamation law to challenge how the BBC characterized their Glastonbury protest, a move with real stakes for artist activism.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jul 3, 2026A Gambler Rigged Spotify's Charts to Win a Bet, and the Artist Paid For ItMalcolm Todd lost 500,000 streams to fraud he had nothing to do with. The motive was a bet, and your playbook was never built to catch it.By The Label Report Desk
Industry News·Jun 29, 2026Google Declares AI Training Is Fair Use — Putting It on a Collision Course With the Music IndustryGoogle's new policy paper argues AI training is fair use and copyright should govern outputs, not inputs — a direct threat to the industry's legal strategy.By The Label Report Desk
