After studying the copyright landscape, the US Copyright Office (USCO) unveiled what it thinks are best practices for the Mechanical Licensing Collective, nearly 160 pages long. USCO just released “Unclaimed Royalties: Best Practice Recommendations for the Mechanical Licensing Collective,” a list of operational recommendations for the MLC, which has absorbedRead More →
Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) and Tencent Music Entertainment (NYSE: TME) are two of the world’s largest music streaming companies. Spotify, which is based in Sweden, serves 365 million monthly active users (MAU) in most countries around the world, but does not operate in mainland China. This is because Tencent Music, whichRead More →
The Hackathon Weekend Edition # 2 – The Last Hacker Standing music genre classification was successfully completed on August 12, 2021. The challenge was to create an evolving music genre classification model that generalizes well to unpublished data. It had almost 300+ participants and over 120+ actively competing in theRead More →