Chris Cooke

Everton's women manager Scott Phelan hopes his players will make an immediate response against Birmingham City after losing the Merseyside derby last Sunday.

US streaming fraudster Michael Smith has been sentenced to eighteen months in jail. Although prosecutors were pushing for something closer to four years, the custodial sentence is significant, and has been welcomed by the music industry which wants stronger deterrents against streaming fraud

The major music publishers and BMG have submitted a new filing with the US Supreme Court in the ongoing termination rights legal battle involving songwriter Cyril Vetter. He recently told the Supreme Court to ignore the publishers’ doomsaying about this case - their new filing has plenty of that

Dylan Jones has backed himself to put in better performances for Tranmere Rovers after a mixed start to the season, writes Chris Cooke at the Solar Campus.

In August, London-based management firm The Night Department sued techno producer Sara Landry for breach of contract. She has now responded and countersued. The core dispute is over the management company’s involvement in her label, though there’s also some griping over a Coachella pissing incident

The arts charity that currently runs the Summerhall complex in Edinburgh has expressed concerns about redevelopment plans that were recently published by the property company that has agreed to acquire the site.

Everton remain only one of three teams still unbeaten in the league so far this season and are currently in firth on 10 points after their draw against Hull City last weekend.

This Friday, CMU’s Chris Cooke will join a panel discussion at Un-Convention on music and AI. Generative AI models that output music pose lots of questions for the music industry, which can make such discussions complex. Here we organise all the questions and issues into three big debates

Local residents who oppose the plan to build a temporary theatre in Ealing's Walpole Park say they are “more fired up than ever” after a council

The big debate over whether or not AI training is fair use under US copyright law was taking place in court again yesterday, this time in the context of music, specifically lyrics, with the copyright legal battle between AI company Anthropic and the Universal, Concord and ABKCO music publishers