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UK music revenues grow but industry wants more government support

As publication day nears for the IFPI’s Global Music Report, another of the world’s biggest recorded music markets has published 2022 figures.
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UK music bodies protests against rise in US visa costs for artists

Changes to the US system of travel visas that could greatly increase the costs for foreign musicians touring there are still sparking unrest.
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UK government rethinks plans for AI-training copyright exception

One of the big debates about creative AI technology at the moment concerns how these models are trained - especially on copyrighted content.
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UK Music report reveals updated stats on industry diversity

UK Music's latest Workforce Diversity Survey data is an important guide both to the progress made so far, and areas for improvement.
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UK Music’s latest report explores industry’s pandemic recovery

The British music industry's umbrella body, UK Music, has published its latest 'This Is Music' annual report this week. Alongside it, the body has called for more support from the British government for musicians and music...
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UK industry bodies: venues and studios face closure without swift help with energy bills

UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin called on the UK government to help music businesses by cutting VAT from its current 20%, and to extend business rate help.
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UK bodies protest against unlicensed AI data-mining of music

There's a new row brewing in the British music industry, but refreshingly, all the industry bodies are on the same side of it.
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UK Music report explores progress on diversity, equity and inclusion

The report examines what progress has been made in the UK music industry over the last year on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Covid-19 ‘wiped out’ a third of jobs in the UK music industry

Industry body UK Music has published its latest 'This Is Music' annual report, and it has some sobering stats on Covid-19's impact on the British music industry.
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UK Music sets its sights on summer for live music’s return

We’ll be avoiding generalisations about Covid-19 and live music this year: in countries whose governments have dealt with the epidemic decisively and effectively, concerts are already coming back. In others… that’s...
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BPI and UK Music join UK’s creative industries trade advisory group

What kind of trade deal will the UK have with the European Union after the end of its Brexit transition period this year? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the best description, in the absence of an emoticon denoting 'throwing hands in the...
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UK Music launches 2020 edition of Workforce Diversity Survey

One of the key points made during our last Music Ally TV Show, by Kobalt’s Mulika Sannie (see lead story) was the need for music industry companies to conduct internal audits to understand not just how many non-white...