Posted Wed 13 May 2009 1:37PM BST
Rapper TI, aka Clifford Harris, has spoken about his dodgy past whilst hosting an anti-gun rally in Harlem alongside Al Sharpton and Kevin Liles. The rapper is quoted as saying: "I owe us an apology. The same violence and gun activity that I'm attemp 
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Wed 13 May 2009 1:35PM BST
Sony Music are suing EMI Music, which is fun. The legal dispute is over Ron Werre, EMI's recently promoted Co-Chief Operating Officer. Werre, possibly most notable for the fact Word insists on auto-correcting his name to ‘were' whenever I type it, Posted Wed 13 May 2009 1:33PM BST
Meanwhile, on the other side of the water, the French Assembly has finally passed the country's controversial ‘Creation & Internet' law, which is the legislation that will make ‘three-strikes' law there. As previously reported, the French Posted Wed 13 May 2009 1:31PM BST
A whole string of trade bodies representing content owners and cultural types - including the record industry's BPI, the UK Film Council, actors' union Equity and those slightly scary Federation Against Copyright Theft people - stepped up their campa Posted Tue 12 May 2009 1:18PM BST
Cross-industry trade body UK Music yesterday announced the launch
of the first of ten new government-funded music rehearsal spaces, this
one if good old Liverpool.
UK
Music man Feargal Sharkey and Culture Secretary Andy Burnham opened the
Posted Tue 12 May 2009 1:16PM BST
Where there's a Jacko there's a lawsuit. A US promoter is trying to
block Michael Jackson's much hyped O2 residency, arguing it conflicts
with an existing contract entered into by the singer's management that
commits Michael to perform with his br Posted Tue 12 May 2009 1:15PM BST
Chris Brown has denied leaking nudie pictures of his ex-girlfriend
Rihanna onto the internet. As previously reported, the revealing
pictures seemingly of the 'Umbrella' singer naked (her face can't be
seen, but everyone seems to think their genuin Posted Tue 12 May 2009 1:13PM BST
An official on St Lucia has said that the Caribbean island's
residents are feeling supportive of Amy Winehouse despite her damp
squib of a comeback gig at the St Lucia Jazz Festival, which ended
early, as previously reported, when rain stopped pla Posted Mon 11 May 2009 12:35PM BST
Independent music distributors [PIAS] have announced the launch of
a new division which will look to pursue opportunities in the brand and
advertising sector for the artists they represent. According to a press
statement, [PIAS] Sync Posted Mon 11 May 2009 12:34PM BST
Amy Winehouse's previously reported comeback gig headlining at the
St Lucia Jazz Festival was cancelled, but not for the reasons you might
think; the singer started her set, but the concert had to be scrapped
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