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Welcome to the Sheffield Digital Podcast. Join host Iain Broome as he finds out the latest news coming out of the exciting digital industries in the Sheffield City Region. With co-hosts Mel Kanerek and Chris Dymond, each month they discuss techie topics and interview special guests. Join the Sheffield Digital slack group https://sheffield.digital/slack/ to suggest topics and to put forward questions. Follow the show @SHFDigital on Twitter.
Interviews with leading executives who are driving Innovation, Corporate Venturing and Strategic Change by Andrew Gaule. For details of our support see www.aimava.com
SETLIST is the music business podcast from CMU. CMU helps people to navigate and understand the music business through media, training, research and events.
Welcome to the SumoCast, a podcast series from the team at Sumo Digital Founded in 2003, award-winning Sumo Digital employs over 700 staff across its eight studios in Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle, Brighton (The Chinese Room), Leeds (Red Kite Games) and Leamington Spa, UK (Sumo Leamington & LAB42) and Pune, India. Developing successful games across all platforms and genres, Sumo is recognised for its versatility, proprietary technology and creativity across a portfolio of games featuring ...
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Setlist: Does Four Tet’s streaming settlement set a precedent?
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Four Tet and Domino's settlement of their legal battle over what royalty rate the musician should be paid on streams and what it could mean for other artists, plus Belgium’s decision to add equitable remuneration to streams and IMPALA’s p…
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BTS on a break, but don’t call it a hiatus
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including BTS's announcement that they are going on break to focus on solo projects - but whatever you do, don't call it a hiatus - plus Goldman Sachs' big predictions for music industry growth to the end of the decade. STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK …
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Setlist: Spotify tells investors everything’s fine, honest
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK’s Music Managers Forum new report on the topic of digital burnout and the wider debate around pressures being placed by the music industry on artists - particularly female artists - to be heavily active on TikTok, plus the petition…
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Setlist: Is TikTok causing digital burnout in artists?
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK’s Music Managers Forum new report on the topic of digital burnout and the wider debate around pressures being placed by the music industry on artists - particularly female artists - to be heavily active on TikTok, plus the petition…
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Episode 110: Yevheniia Lukash, Ukrainian Entrepreneur and Online marketer
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Yevheniia discussed with Andrew her entrepreneurial drive and how she has built her fashion and sustainable clothing business. We discuss the change the business when Ukraine was invaded and how Yevheniia and her team have the skills and approach to drive effective online marketing. For fantastic Independent Designers https://lonedesignclub.com Con…
CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK Music Venue Trust's launch of a new organisation called Music Venue Properties - which is a charitable community benefit society set up to buy the freeholds of properties that currently house grassroots music venues - and its #owno…
A special live edition of the show recorded live at Wide Days in Edinburgh. CMU’s Chris Cooke is joined on stage by Serenade's Mike Walsh and SNM Management's Shikayla Nadine to review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest judgement against Viagogo in Australia, Universal's DIY distribution platform Spi…
A special edition of the show recorded live at The Great Escape in Brighton. CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke are joined on stage by music rights consultant Becky Brook and creative entrepreneur Ameena Badley to review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Napster's shift to Web3, the MMF's $ong Royalties Manifesto…
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Episode 109: Jon Rains of Mott MacDonald Ventures
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Jon Rains, Head of Ventures at Mott MacDonald discusses with Andrew Gaule their approach to Corporate Venture Capital Investments. They cover the 5Ps of Strategic Venturing and CVC - Purpose, Process, People, Partners and Performance. Andrew Gaule's book "Purpose to Performance - Innovative New Value Chain" is available on Amazon or Eventbrite http…
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Episode 108: Demystifying Venture Capital Term Sheets with Jonathan Hollis of Mountside Ventures
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Andrew Gaule of Aimava and CirculOil, discusses with Jonathan Hollis of Mountside Ventures the 'market terms' of investors in early stage ventures. You can receive a copy of the report via the link https://docsend.com/view/zzshfij5eqd4t3ik The objective of the guide is to increase transparency in the early-stage fundraising ecosystem by demystifyin…
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Setlist: Deezer to go public with €1 billion valuation
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Deezer's announcement that it is going public with a valuation of more than €1 billion, as a result of a deal to merge with French special purpose acquisition company I2PO that will result in the streaming music firm being publicly listed…
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The battle for Sheffield’s Leadmill music venue
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the battle over Sheffield's Leadmill venue after its current management were served with an eviction notice with plans for the building's landlord to install their own team, plus the producer suing Justin Bieber for allegedly breaking pro…
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Did Fortnite rip off a Charlie Puth dance? It’s complicated
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the lawsuit launched against Fortnite maker Epic Games by the choreographer behind the dance routine in the video for the Charlie Puth song ‘How Long’ alleging that an 'emote' available within the gaming platform utilises his choreography…
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Record revenues for the record industry (if you don’t adjust for inflation)
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the latest stats from the IFPI showing that global recorded music revenues grew 18.5% in 2021, plus a whole load more stats from Spotify aiming to fend of criticism about the money artists and songwriters earn from the platform (although …
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Spotify says its FC Barcelona deal will be great for musicians
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Spotify's $310 million deal to sponsor Spanish football team FC Barcelona - which the streaming service says will be great for artists - and former chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost's admission that the deal he secured with the European …
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Ed Sheeran tells the High Court he’s no song thief
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran's trip to the High Court in London in a bid to defeat a song-theft lawsuit filed against him and his musical collaborators in relation to his 2017 track 'Shape Of You', and the return of LimeWire - not as a piece of peer-to-pee…
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Bandcamp bought by Fortnite maker Epic Games
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Epic Games' acquisition of Bandcamp and what a gaming company might want with a direct-to-fan music platform, plus the Entertainment Retailers Association's stats on streaming music in 2021 and what it thinks should happen in the economic…
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Megan Thee Stallion in album definition dispute
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Megan Thee Stallion’s legal dispute over the definition of an album – and specifically whether her 2021 release ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ is one or now – plus the eventful rollout of Kanye West's latest record, 'Donda 2'. SECTION TIMES…
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Comedians sue Pandora over joke copyrights
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the lawsuits filed against Pandora by three comedians - and the estates of comedy legends Robin Williams and George Carlin - over allegations the American streaming service is streaming comedy routines by those performers without all of t…
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Episode 107: How to build and fund your start up! - CirculOil and Seedlegals
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We focus on the founder’s journey: how to build a circular economy business and team while raising investment. We also discuss the essential legals you need to run your business - from Founder Agreements and SEIS Assurance, to share options and R&D tax credits. Bring your questions for the Q&A. Our panel - Steve Goodier is Founder and Chief Exec of…
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HitPiece NFTs spark a cease and desist frenzy
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the controversy sparked by a company called HitPiece after it appeared to be selling NFTs related to a plethora of musicians without permission, plus accusations by Lil Yachty that another music-focussed NFT Company, Opulous, used his nam…
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Spotify chooses Joe Rogan over Neil Young
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this episode we’re discussing just one story that dominated the headlines over the last seven days – Neil Young’s protest against the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify. Saying that Rogan is “spreading fake information about [COVID-19] vacc…
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Artists go to war over venue merch commissions
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the artist backlash against venues that charge a commission on any merchandise they sell at gigs and the Featured Artist Coalition's new directory of '100% venues' that don't take any cut at all, plus the battle between the estates of for…
CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the US Ninth Circuit appeals court judges’ skeptical approach to an attempt to have the song-theft case over Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ reinstated and other song-theft lawsuits currently working their way through the courts, plus Spotify’s…
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Episode 106: Claire Ruskin Cambridge Network and Autonomous Vehicle Future
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Andrew Gaule (linkedin.com/in/andrew-gaule-aimava) discusses with Claire Ruskin (linkedin.com/in/claireruskin) the Cambridge Tech eco system, building new ventures and collaborating for an autonomous vehicle future. You can listen to this interview as a podcast on Gaule's Question Time on Apple, Spotify, Google and many other podcast channels. Subs…
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Five music controversies to expect in 2022
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss five companies likely to find themselves involved in big music industry controversies in 2022. They span the economics of streaming debate, the major label system, the live industry, digital licensing and more. Some of these companies will be more used to finding themselves the focus of people’s anger than ot…
CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last year. For this edition of Setlist we’re doing things a bit differently. It's our final episode of 2021, so we're going to look back at the big five stories of the last twelve months in the music business. It's been a while since we last did this, because…
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Episode 105: Russell Sheffield, Founder of Trackd discusses the music and digital payments ventures
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Andrew Gaule in discussion with Russell Sheffield, Founder and CEO of Trackd Music, (https://trackdmusic.com). Andrew and Russell cover a lot of ground from Russell growing up around Queen, Beatles and other music icons in his father's recording studio. We then hear about his journey as a tech entrepreneur and launching EasyJet first website for St…
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There’s only room for one Republic in music, says Universal
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Universal’s lawsuit against investment platform Republic over its move into music (there already being music company called Republic, which Universal has owned for more than 20 years), and Tidal’s big shift to user-centric royalties. SECT…
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Episode 104: Dr Dan Stewart ViridiCO2 discusses University Spin Out and Solving CO2 Challenge
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Andrew Gaule discusses with Dr. Dan Stewart, Founder and CEO of ViridiCO2 (https://viridico2.co.uk), the founding of a university spin out which is addressing the capture and use of CO2 to mitigate climate change. In the discussion we cover a range of topics and support he gained on his journey so far. - Being inspired by Al Gore's Inconvenient Tru…
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The legal fall out from the Astroworld tragedy
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CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the tragedy that occurred at Travis Scott's Astroworld festival in Houston Texas on Friday 5 Nov. Ten* people were killed and hundreds more injured after a dangerous crowd-surge occurred during Scott's headline set at the festival. A criminal investigation is now underway to ascertain the sequence of events t…
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Jay-Z in court over "crappy, lazy" perfume launch
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Jay-Z claim in court that his fragrance launched in 2013 failed not because he didn't live up to his agreement regarding promoting it but because of perfume company Parlux's "crappy, lazy work", plus the All Party Parliamentary Group On M…
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SDP 74: Turning a lifestyle business into an award-winning scale-up
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Mel follows-up with Dan and Andrew from Airship, delves into some Sheffield history and finds out the highs and lows of reinventing a tech business. If you listened to Episode 72 of this podcast, you will have heard us chat with two very successful start-ups: Mina and Airship. You will also have discovered that Airship isn’t really a start-up; the …
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COVID-19 wipes nearly $1 billion off song royalties
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the 10.7% (or 775 million euros) drop in royalties collected by the song right collecting societies across the world as a result of COVID-19 in 2020, and the leaked UK government report that suggests that COVID passports might be counterp…
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Counting the impact of COVID on the UK music industry
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including UK Music stats revealing that the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 69,000 music industry jobs in the UK and caused the economic contribution made by the music industry to slump by 46%, plus IFPI music stats showing that free services dominate …
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Coldplay's plans to make touring eco-friendly
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Coldplay’s plans to employ various technological solutions to reduce the environmental impact of their world tour next year, plus the music publishers' plans to push for the mechanical royalty rate on streaming in the US to be increased a…
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Episode 103: Quantum Future - Breakout session insights from leading executives, investors and researchers
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This was the launch of a Quantum Future Programme and if you would like to participate in future programmes do contact info@aimava.com. This is the breakout discussion highlights from eight senior execs facilitating leading practitioners driving the Quantum Future. This short engaging programme included a key speaker panel outlining the key opportu…
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Tina Turner's big money brand and rights deal
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Tina Turner’s wide-ranging deal with BMG in which she has given up her recordings, songs and brand for a reported $50 million, plus Friendly Fires’ anger after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walked onto the stage at the Conservative…
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SDP 73: Creating a Gigabit city and getting to grips with the eSports scene in Sheffield
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In episode 73 of the Sheffield Digital podcast we talk to Natalie Ward, City Manager for CityFibre. We’re also joined by Giorgio Cassella, Head of Marketing at Evoluted and founder of Afterwork.gg, and Adam Jessop, founder and CEO of Endpoint Gaming. First up, we ask Natalie about how she got into working in broadband connectivity, what changes she…
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Donald Trump's Electric Avenue fair use failure
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Donald Trump's failed attempt to have a copyright infringement case brought against him by Eddy Grant dismissed on the grounds of fair use, and the attempt by the man who (as a baby) appeared on the cover of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album to…
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Episode 102: Matt Johnson Founder of Taskable discusses startups and fundraising
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Andrew Gaule discusses with Matt the journey of a founder, fundraising for start ups. Valuable links: Taskable: https://taskablehq.com/ Get 50% off Taskable for a year with the code GAULE when you upgrade to Pro Fundraise blog: https://taskablehq.com/blog/how-to-approach-investors List of pre-seed investors: https://taskablehq.com/blog/active-pre-s…
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The government responds to Parliament’s streaming report
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. This week we focus on just one story – because there’s a lot to say about it – the British government’s response to Parliament’s big ‘Economics Of Music Streaming’ report published by Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee in…
Setlist’s Chris Cooke presents a live version of the programme at the Spot+ conference in Aarhus, Denmark. He is joined by a panel of industry experts to review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the RIAA’s latest stats, Portishead’s user-centric royalties on SoundCloud, Epic Games and Apple, COVID passports, a…
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SDP 72: Airship & Mina - two of Sheffield’s most exciting startups talk about their journeys so far
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In the first half of episode 72 we discuss product development and scalability, working remotely and hiring during national lockdowns, Sheffield as a tech business location, how to encourage people to enter careers in tech, and diversity in the industry. And here are our guests: Julian Cole, Lead Developer, and Andrew Whiteley, Director, from Airsh…
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Episode 101: Quantum Future - Aimava Panel of Speakers
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This was the launch of a Quantum Future Programme and if you would like to participate in future programmes do contact info@aimava.com. The Speaker Panel we had for the context in first 30 minutes - which is included in this video Prem Tumkosit – MSD (Merck in USA) Global Health Innovation Fund (Perspective from a corporate investor) Ilana Wisby – …
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Anarchy in the High Court - it's the Sex Pistols!
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including The Sex Pistols’ appearance in the High Court in a dispute over a sync deal to include the band’s music in a new show directed by Danny Boyle based on the memoir of guitarist Steve Jones, plus Sony Music’s lawsuit against sportswear brand…
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The things people still get wrong about streaming – dissecting the Economics Of Streaming report
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Taking a break from the usual format, on this week’s Setlist CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the culture select committee of the UK parliament’s newly published report based on its inquiry into the economics of the music streaming business, including the key findings, what the committee got wrong, and an important question that should proba…
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Let's fix streaming by taxing the superstars
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the new research from the UK’s Association Of Independent Music’s arguing that paying popular tracks on streaming services lower royalties and less popular track more might be the key to a fairer system, and the news that supermarket chai…
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Brexit negotiator says touring issues aren't his problem
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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including chief Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost’s less than reassuring answers to questions about how he failed to deliver visa-free touring in the EU for British musicians and what is being done about it, plus the music companies going on the r…
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SDP 71: The future of The Children's Media Conference & asking what the heck happened with Cryptopunk NFTs
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In episode 71 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast we speak to Kathy Loizou, Co-founder and Director of The Children's Media Conference, and we're also joined by Alex Amsel, award-winning game developer and blockchain expert. In the first part of the episode, Kathy fills us in on the history of The Children’s Media Conference, how it’s adapted during C…
