Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a new, multi-year direct licensing pact that will cover the United States and several other companies, according to a Sunday release from the companies ...

Music licensor Broadcast Music, Inc. claims Six Strings Club in Bloomington [pictured] willfully violated copyright law by playing protected music without a license. A downtown Bloomington nightclub ...

New Years’ Day means hundreds of new laws on the books, including one allowing residents to get a digital version of their driver’s license. Illinois state leaders are handing residents a list ...

Platforms like Spotify increasingly integrate AI-generated music to cut costs, further shrinking royalty streams for human artists. Why license a costly catalog when AI can generate something ...