Lorenzo Gessner (data science & innovation manager at UMG Italy), Eleonora Bianchi (head of digital services & consumption at UMG Italy) and Ludovica Colombo (digital media specialist at UMG Italy) explain how songs are shortlisted...

The nature of some fandoms is to generate a fan hierarchy, often based around either perceived proximity to the artist, or by regularity of posting, or encouraging fan behaviour like downloading of new songs

This is a guest post on music copyright law by Oliver Lock, and Owen O’Rorke, who, respectively, work in Reputation Management and Intellectual Property & Commercial, at UK law firm Farrer & Co. They wrote this...