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MIA's long-running middle finger dispute with NFL is over As previously reported, MIA raised her middle finger during a guest spot in Madonna's half-time performance at the 2012 edition of the Super Bowl. The sporting body claimed that, by raising her finger, MIA breached a contractual commitment to ensure her performance didn't negatively impact on the "tremendous public respect and reputation" enjoyed by American football. Even though the finger moment led to only a smattering of formal complaints from the Super Bowl's 111.3 million viewers, the NFL pushed for compensation from the rapper through a process of arbitration, at one point asking for $16.6 million in damages. As the dispute rumbled on, MIA went public about it all, questioning the NFL's argument that her finger raising had damaged American football's otherwise untarnished reputation. Her lawyer Howard King embellished on that point at the time, telling The Hollywood Reporter: "The NFL's claimed reputation for wholesomeness is hilarious in light of the weekly felonies committed by its stars, the bounties placed by coaches on opposing players, the homophobic and racist comments uttered by its players, the complete disregard for the health of players and the premature deaths that have resulted from same". Whether going public about the dispute while arbitration continued behind closed doors helped MIA's case isn't known. Though the NFL did risk further damaging the reputation it was seeking to protect by pushing too hard for mega-damages. Especially given MIA's side kept pointing out that if the incident had been so bad, media regulator the FCC would surely have intervened. Which it did not. Either way, a settlement has now been reached, King has now confirmed to ESPN. Terms will remain private, though so far there has been no apology from MIA, which was one of the things the NFL was pushing for. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early Drake associate sues Cash Money over profit share According to Entertainment Law Digest, Prince worked with the rapper during the early stages of his career, and was involved in his signing an agreement with Aspire Music Group, through which Drake would license his recordings. As part of that deal, says Prince, he was due a cut of any profits and advances earned from Drake's music. In a complaint filed last week in Miami, Prince says that in July 2009, Drake and Aspire, neither of whom are being sued, signed a deal with Cash Money, which brought in a $2 million advance. Prince says that it was then agreed that Cash Money would pay money owed under his Aspire agreement directly to him. Since then, the lawsuit says, Cash Money has repeatedly made payments of less than expected, including one in November last year which "was at least $5 million less that what as owed". The label then, it is claimed, failed to provide complete accounting documents when asked. Prince is now seeking $4 million in damages from Cash Money, as well as access to Cash Money's full Drake-related accounts to ascertain what exactly he is owed. -------------------------------------------------- Universal sues maker of VH1/Smirnoff DJ contest Interestingly, Universal's lawsuit - which lists both recording and publishing subsidiaries of the mega-major as plaintiffs - goes after production companies involved in making the programme, rather than VH1 as its broadcaster (for the offending third series, it started off on other Viacom-owned networks) or Smirnoff as its sponsor. And while it might seem odd to suggest that someone might go after a sponsor in a case like this, 'Master Of The Mix' is more what marketing people would called 'branded content' than a straight sponsorship arrangement, in that it was made with Smirnoff in mind, the show's winner becomes the drinks brand's official DJ for a year, and the brand's owner Diageo has reportedly invested in the franchise. And while Smirnoff is not named, the branded entertainment company behind the show and Smirnoff's involvement, GTM Inc, is among the defendants. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal claims that the programme properly licensed all the music used in its first two series, but failed to do so for the third, during which it used 93 songs repped by Universal's publishing business, and 115 recordings released by its labels. The defendants are yet to respond. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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More Momentum funding confirmed And if you were even partially curious as to who is getting the loot this time, well, you're going to find this list both intriguing and illuminating. Amplify Dot (for the release of a new album) And as if that wasn't enough fine musical funding to be getting on with, there'll be more soon. The next deadline to apply to the Momentum Music Fund is, well, today, which is rather short notice. After that the next deadline is 28 Oct. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australian streaming service Songl to close A message on the company's website reads: "Unfortunately, we are not continuing our on demand music subscription service after 25 Sep 2014. If you are a Songl Subscriber or 30 day trialist, you will get instructions on how to export and save all of your personal playlists via the desktop for use on other streaming services". As previously reported, after a period of beta testing, Songl launched in March last year. Owned by radio firm Southern Cross Austereo, the service was launched in partnership with Universal Music and Sony Music and attempted to distinguish itself with curated playlists by DJs from SCA's roster of radio stations. Which clearly worked really well for them. -------------------------------------------------- Spotify freemium mobile reaches Windows Phones No longer will you have to pay £10 a month for the full Spotify experience. Now you can take the limited functionality ad-funded free version instead, which has the added benefit of paying lower royalties to artists. Hurray for paying less money to artists. No? Oh. Anyway, here's that Steve Guggenheimer from Microsoft getting all excited about Spotify being made available for free on Windows Phone. "We're excited to see Spotify made available for free on Windows Phone", he says. And here is Spotify's Director of Product Dave Price, who, as you all know, is all about bringing more music to more people. Says Price: "We're all about bringing more music to more people. Today we're doing just that by bringing the best free music experience to Windows Phone users across the globe". -------------------------------------------------- New CEO at Gracenote He takes over from Shashi Seth, who was President of Tribune Digital Ventures and had been an interim CEO at Gracenote since the former acquired the latter. Seth is departing the group entirely. Batter, who will also become an Exec VP of Tribune Media, previously ran online video company M-Go, where he was a customer of Gracenote's data services. He told Billboard that this experience convinced him of the importance of metadata in the "digital ecosystem", adding: "I think it is as critical to the digital experience as sound and pictures are to the movie. It helps get consumers to what they want to watch". | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Slipknot detail fifth LP The band's first big release in over six years, it features their recently released track 'The Negative One' and newly previewing lead single 'The Devil In I'. And its title, unmistakably, is a nod to the band's late bassist Paul Gray, who died from an accidental overdose in 2010. Giving an insight into what it was like for him and his bandmates to go into the studio without Gray, vocalist Corey Taylor told The Pulse Of Radio: "It was almost like getting to know each other again". He went on: "We were all kind of grieving in our own way and dealing with things in our own way, and knowing that we had to be healthy to go in, we had to be creative to go in, and knowing that we were gonna have to fill this huge void, we just kind of took it upon ourselves to make up for that emptiness by being a little bit of Paul. Like we were all a little bit of Paul in our own way". Below is a list of the tracks on 'The Gray Chapter', and this is the 'The Devil In I' video. XIX -------------------------------------------------- Sophie and AG Cook present QT 'QT', by the way, is the 'face' (this face) and voice of the track, engineered by the pair to "stretch the notion of what a popstar actually is". Basically, she might not be real. Still, 'she' (whatever she is) has already released her first item of merchandise, a new 'Energy Elixir'. Whilst QT the drink isn't available to drink yet, here it is spinning endlessly on the world wide web. And this is 'Hey QT' the single, which is on sale now via XL Recordings for £1.93. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kwabs to play free set in Manchester With Kwabs taking the headlining spot, the show will also play host to Sinead Harnett, aka the 'feat' voice on Disclosure's track 'Boiling'. Entry is free by registering for tickets, which are available by sending an email to lumialive@thisismission.com And while we're at it, this is Kwabs' new single 'Walk', which is released on 29 Sep. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elvis coming back from the dead to sell stuff The virtual Elvis will be created by Pulse Entertainment, the company behind performances by dead musicians including Tupac. CEO Frank Patterson said in a statement: "We are thrilled about this partnership because we created Pulse to bring brilliant performers like Elvis to the millions of people who love him. Through this digitally re-imagined Elvis, new and younger audiences will be able to see firsthand why he is called the King of Rock n Roll". Meanwhile Jamie Salter, CEO of Authentic Brands Group, which manages the Evlis estate in partnership with the Presley family, added: "For us, working with Pulse is about the opportunity to present Elvis to a new generation of fans who would otherwise never get to see him perform. Our goals for a digitized Elvis are integrity and authenticity, to provide fans with an experience that they love and are proud to be a part of". Earlier this year, another of the artists 're-imagined' by Pulse, this time Michael Jackson, got the company involved in a bit of legal action. Hopefully this flogging of a dead horse/singer will go more smoothly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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