StubHub UK fined for ticket pricing; Artists' AI training pressure; Suno gives artists money; James Blake vs journalists; Artists' open letter for Fossil Fuel Treaty.
Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. This week, Stu and Joe get ready for their summer holidays and punt a beachball at this week's music biz news:
How much has controversial secondary-ticketing firm StubHub has just been fined in the UK for illegal ‘drip pricing’? (Also, what is that?)
The news seems bit AI-heavy this week, but it's actually all about artists:
→ 31 groups representing artists and managers have written an open letter about AI music… but it’s not AI companies who it’s addressed to…
→ AI-music company Suno is giving some money to musicians at last! But there…
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