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CMU Podcast: YouTube, SFX, Irving Azoff

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 9 December 2016

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including YouTube and the IFPI’s disagreement over whether $1 billion is ‘a lot’ or ‘not nearly enough’, SFX Entertainment’s big post-bankruptcy rebrand as LiveStyle, and Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights accusing the US radio industry of being anti-competitive. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

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Stories discussed this week:

• “A billion dollars ain’t enough, mate”, IFPI tells YouTube
• SFX rebrands as LiveStyle
• Irving Azoff’s GMR declares: “It’s the radio industry being anti-competitive!”

In brief:

• US Congress passes ticket tout bot ban
• Amazon is the exclusive ticket agent for intimate Robbie Williams show
• Guvera postpones AGM because it can’t pay its auditors
• Duran Duran “outraged and saddened” after losing copyright reversion right case