Sunday, June 25, 2017

CMU Podcast: Apple Music, The Slants, Morrissey | UNLIMITED | CMU

Apple Music

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Apple Music reportedly looking to reduce the royalties it pays the labels, US band The Slants getting American trademark law rewritten, and Morrissey’s silly spat with HMV. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

Subscribe to the CMU Podcast

Listen to the CMU Podcast and sign up to receive new episodes automatically each week through any of these services…

iTunes | audioBoom | SoundCloud | Spotify | Stitcher | Spreaker | TuneIn | Mixcloud | RSS

Stories discussed this week:

• Now Apple is trying to cut the labels’ share of the digital pie too
• American band The Slants get trademark law rewritten
• Morrissey accuses HMV of attempting to suppress sales of Smiths reissues
• Turns out HMV actually DID want to sell those Smiths records

In brief:

• Police raid HQ of Spanish collecting society – again
• Jay-Z finds misplaced hyphen
• Napalm Death interviewed by Ed Miliband on Radio 2

[from http://ift.tt/2lvivLP]

No comments: