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The deal comes after their prior licensing contract expired, prompting Universal to pull all of its artists’ songs off TikTok at the beginning of February.

The Justice Department’s new antitrust suit against Live Nation alleges that it chokes competition in ticketing, promotion and venues, and drives up prices for fans.

Plaintiffs including Universal, Sony and Warner allege that two AI startups generate sound-a-likes of popular recordings using copyrighted works.

Publisher plans to cap number of free episodes of ‘The Daily’ as it moves more podcast content behind paywall

The new deal includes video episodes and gives Amazon’s Wondery exclusive distribution and ad-sales rights.

Spotify posted its second consecutive quarterly profit and made progress in expanding margins, though user growth softened. Chief Executive Daniel Ek confirmed the company is working on a long-awaited, more expensive subscription tier that would include high-fidelity lossless music, so-called because the integrity of the original audio is preserved during compression for streaming. “There’s a good chunk of people paying for Spotify that would gladly pay for a much better version of Spotify,” Ek said in an interview.

The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.

The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.

Edgar Bronfman Jr. hopes a second Hollywood foray goes better than his first.

Edgar Bronfman Jr. hopes a second Hollywood foray goes better than his first. Edgar Bronfman Jr.fumbled his first opportunity to run a major Hollywood company.