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Ed Sheeran and Lorde are the latest artists to leave their major record labels, while artists like Halsey are fighting to release music. Why?

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At the heart of the music business almost since its inception, major labels have successfully weathered multiple challenges to their industry dominance. But as music once again reinvents itself, can ...

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As the major players in the music industry increasingly warm up to the idea of AI agents training on their enormous catalogues (for we imagine, enormous sums) the fear that music creators and rightful ...