IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (DEC 22-28, 2025)

IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (DEC 22-28, 2025)

by | Jan 4, 2026 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News


Delhi Excessive Courtroom directs takedown of posts with unauthorised merchandise of Sunil Gavaskar in addition to his faux quotes

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom requested Meta, X Corp, and totally different e-commerce platforms to supervise the elimination of social media posts attributing incorrect remarks to former India captain Sunil Gavaskar and pages promoting merchandise in his title with out authorization. Sunil Gavaskar’s counsel contended that such remarks might gravely jeopardize his popularity as a broadcaster and cricket pundit on present occasions.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom Grants Ex-Parte Injunction Defending R. Madhavan’s Character Rights Towards AI Deepfakes, Pornographic Content material and Unauthorised Merchandise

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom granted an intensive ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of actor R. Madhavan, restraining a number of defendants and unidentified events from unauthorised industrial exploitation of his title, picture, likeness and voice by AI-generated deepfake movies, morphed pornographic content material, and sale of infringing merchandise. Recognising Madhavan’s well-established character and publicity rights below Articles 19 and 21 of the Structure, the Copyright Act, 1957 and customary regulation, the Courtroom held that such unauthorised use causes irreparable hurt to his goodwill and dignity. The Courtroom directed instant takedown of infringing content material throughout YouTube, Instagram, web sites and e-commerce platforms inside strict timelines, failing which intermediaries had been ordered to disable entry and disclose fundamental subscriber and IP particulars. The Courtroom additional restrained the defendants from any future misuse of Madhavan’s persona by AI or different applied sciences, emphasising that such industrial deepfake content material shouldn’t be protected by free speech or honest dealing rules.

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Bombay Excessive Courtroom directs takedown of morphed photographs of Shilpa Shetty which had been made utilizing AI 

The Bombay Excessive Courtroom deemed the AI (synthetic intelligence)-generated and modified images of actor Shilpa Shetty “extraordinarily disturbing and surprising” and ordered main social media corporations to right away delete and take away all such hyperlinks and web sites. The actress moved the Bombay Excessive Courtroom for defense of her character rights, alleging that AI instruments had been used to clone her voice and mannerisms to make modified images, books, and different objects with out her permission. The actress additionally filed an injunction utility searching for route to take away the content material and prohibiting them from using her title, voice, or picture with out permission.

Novex Communications Pvt. Ltd. v. The Phoenix Mills Ltd. & Ors.: Bombay Excessive Courtroom Grants Advert-Interim Injunction for Unauthorised Public Efficiency of Sound Recordings

By an order dated 19 December 2025, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom granted ad-interim injunction in favour of Novex Communications Personal Restricted towards The Phoenix Mills Restricted and Others in a quia timet copyright infringement motion. The Courtroom held that Novex had made out a prima facie case of possession and licensing rights over the involved sound recordings by project and unique licence agreements and accepted video and affidavit proof exhibiting unauthorised public efficiency of its repertoire at occasions held on the defendants’ premises in September and October 2025. Rejecting the defendants’ rivalry that they weren’t liable because the occasions had been organised by third events, the Courtroom relied on Part 51(a)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957, holding that allowing premises for use for revenue for infringing communication itself constitutes infringement. The Courtroom distinguished the Division Bench resolution in Phonographic Efficiency Ltd. v. Avion Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., noting that Part 51(a)(ii) had not been thought of therein, and accordingly restrained the defendants from speaking Novex’s sound recordings or permitting their premises for use for infringing acts pending disposal of the swimsuit.

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Bombay Excessive Courtroom refuses keep on ‘Saat Samundar Paar’ tune within the movie Tu Meri Foremost Tera Foremost Tera Tu Meri

 Trimurti Movies Pvt Ltd. was denied pressing interim aid by the Bombay Excessive Courtroom after it sued Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and Saregama India for allegedly infringing copyright through the use of a remixed model of the 1992 tune “Saat Samundar Paar” within the upcoming movie Tu Meri Foremost Tera Foremost Tera Tu Meri.

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Kapil Sharma and the producers of the present sued for infringement of copyright earlier than the Bombay Excessive Courtroom

Phonographic Efficiency Restricted (PPL) has moved the Bombay Excessive Courtroom searching for aid towards comic Kapil Sharma’s manufacturing corporations for alleged copyright infringement in his Netflix present ‘The Nice Indian Kapil Present’. Sound recording house owners have filed a lawsuit towards Ok-9 Movies Personal Restricted, BeingU Studios Personal Restricted, Kapil Sharma, Bhavneet Kaur, Akshit Lahoria, and Gurjot Singh, the manufacturing corporations and administrators behind the present that’s presently streaming on Netflix. Justice Sharmila Deshmukh granted the defendants two weeks to answer the plea.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom points instructions to curb on-line frauds – DNRs to lose protected harbour in sure instances

In a landmark ruling addressing the rising issues of felony actions, on-line fraud, and trademark misuse, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom has issued broad orders to area title registrars (DNRs), banks, authorities establishments, and regulation enforcement businesses in a batch of issues.

Bombay Excessive Courtroom injuncted Fedex Securities Personal Restricted from utilizing ‘Fedex’ in trademark case

The Bombay Excessive Courtroom prohibited Fedex Securities Personal Restricted and its group companies from utilizing the mark ‘FEDEX’, citing trademark infringement, passing off, and dilution of Federal Specific Company’s well-known mark. Justice RI Chagla dominated that Fedex Securities’ use of ‘Fedex’ for monetary companies violated and degraded FedEx’s well-known trademark.

A industrial court docket at Tis Hazari in Delhi has handed an ex-parte ad-interim injunction towards digital impersonation of ‘Badshah Broking’

A industrial court docket in Tis Hazari, Delhi, has granted an ex-parte advert interim injunction in favour of monetary educator Sehdev Sehgal and his related entities, restraining unknown impersonators and directing main on-line platforms to take motion towards large-scale digital impersonation and alleged on-line fraud carried out within the title of ‘Badshah broking’.

AI Generated Artists – Music Enterprise Analysis

AI Generated Artists – Music Enterprise Analysis

by | Dec 28, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News


Synthetic intelligence marks a quantum leap within the creation of digital artists. Now, not solely can music avatars be visually perfected, generative AI will also be used to compose songs and create lyrics. Moreover, instruments exist already that can be utilized to provide sensible music movies. Which means the technological conditions for creating profitable digital music stars have been established. Whether or not these avatars will have the ability to succeed within the music market, and even enter the worldwide live performance market, stays to be seen. Partly 4 of the weblog collection ‘Digital Music Worlds’, we are going to study case research of AI-generated music avatars developed primarily by massive leisure corporations in South Korea and China, to evaluate their financial potential for the music trade.

Digital Music Worlds – Half 4: AI Generated Artists

SM Leisure and aespa

AI-generated artists may also play a task on this. A notable instance is the Okay-pop woman band aespa, fashioned by South Korean firm SM Leisure in 2020. The band consists of actual singers performing beneath the stage names Karina, Giselle, Winter and Ningning, who’ve additionally been given digital alter egos.[1] On the first World Cultural Business Discussion board (WCIF), which needed to be held on-line attributable to COVID-19, SM Leisure Chairman Soo-Man Lee defined the idea behind aespa. The avatars – also referred to as æ avatars – usually are not merely representations of the human musicians, however have impartial identities that work together within the digital world: “There’s a new idea group with a groundbreaking identification that we are able to work with. The members of the ‘actual world’ and the members of the ‘digital world’ have AI brains as totally different creatures, to allow them to speak to one another, give tides, make pals, and every world. We’re planning to point out off a totally new idea of storytelling that we couldn’t meet earlier than, corresponding to going backwards and forwards between the worlds by dividing the data.”[2]

After the 4 artists had been launched on SM Leisure’s social media channels between 27 and 30 October 2020,[3] their first single, “Black Mamba”, and the music video of the identical title had been launched on 17 November 2020.[4] As well as, a brief video was posted by which singer Karina chats together with her avatar, æ-Karina, whereas sitting comfortably on sofas and explains that in addition they trade messages through smartphone.[5]

In October 2021, SM Leisure launched “Savage”, the woman group’s first EP album,[6] which instantly stormed to the highest of the Korean charts and likewise prompted a stir internationally. This success earned aespa a spot on the principle stage on the Coachella Music Pageant in California. There, the 4 singers carried out three songs alongside their avatars, who had been projected onto a display screen. Quite a few YouTube movies posted by followers present this.[7]

In 2023, the time was ripe for a global tour by aespa entitled “SYNK: HYPER LINE”, with performances by the woman group and their avatars in varied nations in Southeast Asia, in addition to in america and Europe.[8] In 2024, the primary full-length studio album, “Armageddon”, was launched with ten songs, reaching quantity 2 on the Korean album charts and likewise showing on the worldwide long-play charts.[9] This was adopted by the second stay tour – “SYNK: Parallel Line” – which took the woman group to Japan, China, Thailand and Australia in 2024 and continued in North America and Europe in 2025.[10] It stays to be seen whether or not aespa’s two-world idea will work. The Okay-pop woman group capabilities like a traditional music act, with human songwriters and composers writing songs and producing albums. Stay performances additionally comply with a standard sample, with the æ avatars projected within the background. Solely the connection to the two.7 million followers (as of July 2025) who collect on the corporate’s personal platform Weverse[11] additionally features a digital part. Nevertheless, followers have additionally criticised the storyline of aespa for not all the time being understandable and tough to convey.[12] SM Leisure will nonetheless need to do a variety of inventive work to implement the unique idea.

Deep Studio Leisure and Superkind

Regardless of all of the uncertainties, the idea of aespa rapidly discovered imitators. In November 2021, South Korean firm Deep Studio Leisure offered the boy band Superkind,[13] which initially consisted of 4 actual members, Eugene, Geon, Daemon and SiO, in addition to one digital member, Saejin. Saejin was modelled on Adamsoft’s first digital performer, Adam, however because of AI know-how, he may very well be made way more sensible.[14] In contrast to to aespa, the avatar was an integral a part of the boy band and appeared equally with the opposite band members within the music and promotional movies, as may be seen within the first music video launched for the one “Watch Out” in June 2022.[15] The 5 band members carried out on a stage in a digital surroundings modelled after the Colosseum in Rome, with solely the keenest of observers capable of inform the distinction between the actual singers and their digital band-mates.

Shortly after the discharge of their debut single in July 2022, one other human member, JDV, grew to become a part of the boy band.[16] In December 2022, they had been joined by the digital singer Seung,[17] bringing the overall variety of Superkind members to seven.

In March 2023, Superkind’s second single, “Moody”, was launched, adopted by the EP “Profiles of the Future (Λ): 70%” in October of the identical 12 months. Nevertheless, album gross sales had been very modest, with 6,336 models bought within the first week, putting Superkind solely at quantity 22 on the South Korean Circle Album Chart.[18] After that, issues went quiet across the hybrid boy band. Then, on the morning of 11 April 2025, a put up appeared on X (previously Twitter) by which Deep Studio introduced the dissolution of the group and the mutual termination of contracts with the 5 human performers. No causes got for this resolution, however the AI firm thanked the artists for his or her cooperation and wished them properly for the long run.[19] Nevertheless, it may be assumed that there have been disagreements between the corporate and the human members of Superkind, by which financial components additionally performed a task. This instance reveals that AI-generated musicians aren’t any assure of success and that the excessive growth prices should first be justified.

Metaverse Leisure and MAVE

Nevertheless, South Korea stays fertile floor for the event of AI-generated artists. On 8 November 2022, Metaverse Leisure, a subsidiary of South Korean recreation developer Netmarble Company, introduced the launch of the digital Okay-pop woman group MAVE for spring 2023.[20] In collaboration with the South Korean media group Kakao Leisure, which supplied monetary backing for the mission and is answerable for music distribution, the primary single, “Pandora”, was launched on 25 January 2023 as a music video on YouTube. Within the video, the 4 lifelike members of the woman group — Siu, Zena, Tyra and Marty — carry out in a futuristic-looking metropolis and sing a few hopeless future by which feelings have been misplaced, and about discovering hope once more in a digital world known as Idypia.[21] With the assistance of an AI voice generator, the digital singers are capable of carry out their songs not solely in Korean, but additionally in English, French and Bahasa, the official language of Indonesia. Nevertheless, the AI voices had been skilled with human performers and the dance efficiency within the video is predicated on movement seize know-how, which was already used for Hatsune Miku.[22] On 30 November 2023, MAVE’s second single, entitled “What’s Your Identify?”, was launched on YouTube.[23] Though the debut single had nearly 32 million views on YouTube and “What’s Your Identify?” was additionally clicked on nearly 12 million instances (as of August 2025), MAVE did not enter the South Korean singles charts.[24] This is also the rationale why no additional songs had been launched by the AI woman group from 2024 onwards.

Supertone: MIDNATT and SYNDI8

It subsequently appears tough to create a purely digital AI act if there is no such thing as a thrilling storyline behind it. It’s subsequently simpler to derive an AI avatar from an current star. That is the case with MIDNATT, the alter ego of South Korean celebrity Lee Hyun, who fashioned the vocal group 8Eight along with Joo Hee and Baek Chan and loved success from 2007 to 2014.[25] 8Eight was signed to Korean music firm Massive Hit Leisure, which later grew to become HYBE Company. MIDNATT was developed by South Korean AI firm Supertone, which was acquired by HYBE in 2022 for US $32 million.[26]

In Could 2023, the primary single ‘Masquerade’ by MIDNATT was launched as a YouTube video.[27] Due to Supertone’s voice cloning know-how, the track is obtainable in six languages (Korean, English, Spanish, Chinese language, Japanese and Vietnamese). MIDNATT is the primary results of Challenge L, by which HYBE subsidiary HYBE IM goals to create extra AI-generated artists.[28]

Nevertheless, the follow-up mission got here from Supertone, which launched the digital woman group SYNDI8, consisting of the avatars Canary, Nest, Goyo and Raven, in July 2024. SYNDI8 “stay” within the digital NANSY Land, whose title is derived from Neural Evaluation & Synthesis. The intention is to provide voices as realistically as potential utilizing an AI mannequin. An attention-grabbing element that emerges from Supertone’s announcement about SYNDI8 is the aim of making mental property for AI-generated voices: “We discover the purposes of know-how within the music content material enterprise and to domesticate personal voice mental property (IP) to exhibit the capabilities of creations.”[29]

In contrast to MIDNATT and MAVE, nevertheless, SYNDI8 are manga-style comedian characters, not modelled after people. The EP “MVP”, launched in July 2024, featured music movies produced in comedian fashion for all three songs: “ATOTA”[30], “My Fantasy”[31] and “True Color”[32]. Reasonably than creating hyper-realistic representations of the singers, Supertone centered on producing voices that had been as sensible as potential with the assistance of AI. Nevertheless, with just a few thousand views between them, the movies show that SYNDI8 is an experiment that also wants additional growth.

Tencent Music and Lucy

Moreover the South Korean leisure corporations, the Chinese language know-how firm Tencent is especially concerned in growing AI-generated digital artists. In November 2022, Tencent Music Leisure, a Tencent subsidiary, introduced that it had produced over 1,000 music items utilizing the Lingyin Engine generative AI device. These have been streamed over 100 million instances in China. This know-how has additionally enabled the voices of the late Chinese language singers Teresa Teng and Anita Mui to be recreated.[33]

Tencent Music went one step additional with the Lucy mission. This can be a hyper-real digital pop star developed by the corporate’s personal Lyra Lab and offered to the general public in December 2022 through X (previously Twitter).[34] A month later, Lucy already had three songs within the Chinese language charts and quite a few singles on the Chinese language streaming platform QQ Music.[35] Nevertheless, if Tencent Music will get its manner, it is not going to cease at Lucy, however shall be joined by different AI-generated music avatars.

The evaluation of current AI-generated music avatars reveals that efficiently positioning them in the marketplace is tough. The more than likely path to success is to derive AI artists from human musicians, as demonstrated by aespa and MIDNATT. In these circumstances, followers have a degree of reference within the flesh-and-blood stars, who’re perceived as extra genuine and thus have larger identification potential. AI artists created from scratch discover it a lot more durable to succeed. In addition to the appreciable growth prices, advertising and marketing, promotion and distribution prices should be coated for them to turn into seen in the marketplace. Up to now, solely Hatsune Miku has succeeded in constructing a big, sustainable fan base that attends her concert events. The stay music enterprise particularly is the essential issue within the sustainable institution of an AI music star. As the instance of ABBA has already proven, an excessive amount of technical effort is required to ship the suitable stay expertise for the viewers. Easy 2D projections usually are not sufficient, and hologram know-how has not likely established itself in the marketplace. So, to construct up an AI-generated music star in a sustainable manner and make them profitable, along with good music, nice music movies and thrilling social media appearances, what is required above all is an immersive stay expertise that may win over the followers. As well as, a

Endnotes

[1] Korea Joong Ang Every day, “SM Leisure to debut new woman group, aespa”, October 26, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[2] SM Leisure Pressemitteilung, “Soo-Man Lee, chairman of SM Leisure Group, delivered a speech on the 1st World Cultural Business Discussion board as a consultant of the Korean cultural group!”, October 28, 2020, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[3] m.entertain.naver.com, “Yoo Ji-min debuts as Karina, member of SM Leisure’s new woman group ‘aespa’”, translated from Korean utilizing DeepL, October 28, 2020, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[4] YouTube, “aespa ‘Black Mamba’ MV”, November 17, 2020, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[5] YouTube, “aespa ‘MY, KARINA’”, October 28, 2020, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[6] Wikipedia, “Savage (EP)”, model of June 4, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[7] YouTube, “aespa full efficiency @coachella 2022”, April 24, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[8] NME, “aespa announce Europe, US legs of 2023 ‘SYNK: Hyper Line’ world tour”, Could 19, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[9] Wikipedia, “Armageddon (Aespa album)”, model of August 25, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[10] Wikipedia, “Synk: Parallel Line”, model of August 10, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[11] Weverse, “aespa”, n.d., accessed: 2025-08-28.

[12] Digiverse, “A brief historical past of digital artists”, October 12, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-28.

[13] Superkind is an anagram of NUKE, PRID and S. NUKE refers back to the digital members of the boy band, PRID to the human members, whereas the S stays a thriller that PRIDs and NUKEs should unravel on their journey; see ibid.

[14] YouTube, “SAEJIN, SUPERKIND, Debut Challenge”, January 22, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[15] YouTube, “SUPERKIND ‘WATCH OUT’, Official MV”, June 20, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[16] Korea JoongAng Every day, “Superkind has a member with a distinction — nevertheless it’s nearly undetectable”, July 28, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[17] KProfiles, “SUPERKIND Members Profile”, n.d., accessed: 2025-08-29.

[18] Circle Chart, “Album Chart 2023, Week 42”, October 21, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[19] The X-post was shared throughout quite a few on-line media retailers, together with allkpop, “Superkind formally disbands following contract conclusion with DEEPSTUDIO”, April 11, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[20] The Dailypost, “Netmarble F&C subsidiary Metaverse Leisure launches official web site”, November 8, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[21] YouTube, “Pandora”, January 25, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[22] Reuters, “Meet Mave: the AI-powered Okay-pop woman group that look nearly human and converse 4 languages”, March 17, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[23] YouTube, “MAVE_What’s My Identify”, November 30, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[24] Wikipedia, “Mave”, model of February 11, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[25] Wikipedia, “8Eight”, model of January 19, 2025, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[26] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “HYBE acquires faux voice AI firm Supertone in $32m deal (report)”, October 4, 2022, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[27] YouTube, “MIDNATT ‘Masquerade’ Official MV (Obtainable in 6 languages ENG/KR/JP/CH/ES/VN)”, Could 15, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[28] The Korean Herald, “Hybe opens up an period of ‘tech-tainment’ with new artist Midnatt”, Could 15, 2023, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[29] Cited in Music Enterprise Worldwide, “After being acquired by HYBE in a $32m deal final 12 months, voice cloning startup Supertone launches AI-powered digital pop group, SYNDI8”, July 2, 2024, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[30] YouTube, “SYNDI8 ‘ATOTA’ Official Visualizer”, July 10, 2024, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[31] YouTube, “SYNDI8 ‘My Fantasy’ Official Visualizer”, July 10, 2024, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[32] YouTube, “SYNDI8 ‘True Colour’ Official Visualizer”, July 10, 2024, accessed: 2025-08-29.

[33] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been launched by Tencent Music in China. Certainly one of them has 100m streams”, November 15, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-01.

[34] X-Publish, “In the present day, TME introduced the debut of Lucy, who’s the primary super-realistic digital idol of the corporate”, December 12, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-01.

[35] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Meet the digital artists backed by a number of the world’s largest leisure corporations”, Could 22, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-01.

The Housemaid & Twistiȵg the Thriller: Audio feaƫures Paul Feig.

The Housemaid & Twistiȵg the Thriller: Audio feaƫures Paul Feig.

by | Dec 21, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News

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IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (December 1-7, 2025)

IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (December 1-7, 2025)

by | Dec 14, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News


Madras Excessive Court docket: Ilaiyaraaja — makers of Dude & Good Dangerous Ugly settle; INR 50 lakh paid

Composer Ilaiyaraaja and the producers of the movies Dude and Good Dangerous Ugly knowledgeable the Madras Excessive Court docket that they’ve entered right into a settlement over alleged unauthorised use of his works; the producers paid INR 50 lakh (after TDS) as a part of the compromise and the fits have been disposed. The courtroom recorded the joint compromise memo and closed the copyright fits.

Madras Excessive Court docket: Interim injunction towards launch of Akhanda 2 in favour of Eros

Madras HC handed orders restraining exploitation/launch of the movie Akhanda II pending compliance with an earlier arbitral award — This attraction was filed by Eros in reference to its long-standing arbitral award towards 14 Reels Leisure Personal Restricted, beneath which Eros is the award holder of a cash decree of roughly Rs28 crore.

Eros argued that this was an oblique try to flout the arbitral award and keep away from compliance with legally decided monetary obligations.

Eros Worldwide obtained an interim injunction in search of to forestall launch till an arbitral award sum is glad.

Delhi Excessive Court docket awards ₹1.5 lakh to Tommy Hilfiger — counterfeit sale by Kolkata dealer (Tommy Hilfiger v. Kolkata dealer)

 The Delhi Excessive Court docket (bench of Justice Tejas Karia) held {that a} Kolkata dealer bought counterfeit Tommy Hilfiger items and granted financial compensation of ₹1.5 lakh for trademark infringement and passing off (judgment delivered 28 Nov 2025). The courtroom discovered clear use of the registered mark on faux merchandise that deceived shoppers.

Madras Excessive Court docket strikes out Sangeetham Home Of Veg trademark for violating earlier settlement (Sangeetha Veg v. Sangeetham Home Of Veg)

The Madras Excessive Court docket (Justice N. Senthilkumar) struck out registration of the mark Sangeetham Home Of Veg (a Tiruchendur eatery), discovering it obtained in violation of an earlier court-recorded settlement that required a change of title.

The registration was ordered eliminated for breaching the settlement phrases recorded within the earlier infringement swimsuit.

Bombay Excessive Court docket bars Chemco Plast from utilizing “CHEMCO” as a trademark; permits area use

The Bombay Excessive Court docket restrained Chemco Plast from utilizing CHEMCO as a trademark however permitted them to proceed utilizing it as a website title. The courtroom balanced trademark rights with sensible use within the on-line presence (area), disallowing trade-mark use that might trigger confusion with the established brand-owner, whereas recognizing restricted non-trademark on-line utilization is permissible topic to circumstances.

Delhi Excessive Court docket restores Kohinoor Seeds trademark swimsuit towards Veda Seed; territorial jurisdiction present in Delhi

The Delhi Excessive Court docket restored Kohinoor Seed’s trademark swimsuit towards Veda Seed, holding that Delhi has territorial jurisdiction to entertain the swimsuit. The bench discovered correct trigger to revive the proceedings and proceed with the trademark infringement/pass-off declare 

Calcutta Excessive Court docket refuses interim aid in PL SUPREME trademark dispute (Parul Ruparelia v. Camme Wang)

 The Calcutta Excessive Court docket (Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur) refused interim injunction to Kolkata importer Parul Ruparelia in a swimsuit towards Chinese language producer Camme Wang over the mark PL SUPREME.

The courtroom discovered the Chinese language producer to be the prior adopter and proprietor, accepted its export invoices and registration proof, and held the Indian importer couldn’t declare unbiased goodwill. The courtroom additionally vacated earlier interim orders and directed seized items be returned.

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Delhi Excessive Court docket: swimsuit over pre-1965 sound recordings closed — defendant says it claims no rights

Delhi HC (Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, J.) disposed of CS(COMM) 1094/2025 (Bignet Options LLP v Novex Communications Pvt. Ltd.) after Novex confirmed it doesn’t assert rights in recordings printed earlier than 1965.

The courtroom recorded that the plaintiff’s occasion passed off and that Novex doesn’t declare copyright within the listed pre-1965 recordings; the swimsuit was disposed.

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Supreme Court docket: “We’re cautious” — on petitions about unregulated/unchecked use of AI within the judiciary

In a public assertion / listening to this week, the Supreme Court docket recorded that judges should train “utmost warning” in utilizing AI in judicial processes; the Court docket signalled warning on petitions in search of to manage judicial use of AI and emphasised safeguards and cautious, measured adoption.

CBFC / Authorities: Coverage replace — 50% ladies participation in each Analyzing & Revising Committee for movie certification

Authorities / CBFC statements this week confirmed that the Central Board of Movie Certification will guarantee 50% ladies participation on each Analyzing and Revising Committee constituted for movie certification.

Coverage implementation measures have been referenced alongside the Cinematograph (Certification) Guidelines, 2024.

Netflix acquires Warner Bros. for US$82.7 billion — a seismic reshuffle in leisure

Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) introduced that Netflix will purchase Warner Bros. (together with its movie & tv studios, HBO, HBO Max and streaming/manufacturing property) in a landmark cash-and-stock deal valuing Warner Bros. at an enterprise worth of US$82.7 billion (fairness worth US$72.0 billion), at US$27.75 per WBD share.

The acquisition is contingent on WBD first spinning off its World Networks division (cable/information networks similar to CNN/TNT/Discovery) right into a separate publicly-listed entity (anticipated Q3 2026).

South Korea: Coaching AIs on full news-articles or textbooks dominated copyright-infringing

On 4 December 2025, the federal government authorities in South Korea — via the Korea Copyright Fee along with the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism (South Korea) — publicly declared that utilizing full textual content of reports articles or textbooks to coach generative-AI techniques constitutes copyright infringement.

The brand new “Information to Truthful Use of Generative AI Coaching on Copyrighted Works” clarifies that coaching AI on such works (information, textbooks, photos, music) with out consent doesn’t qualify as honest use.

Cox Communications v. Sony Music Leisure — United States Supreme Court docket hears huge web music-piracy case

In early December 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court docket took up arguments within the high-stakes piracy case Cox Communications v. Sony Music Leisure. The problem earlier than the Court docket: whether or not an web service supplier (ISP) could be held responsible for “contributory copyright infringement” merely as a result of it knew customers of its service repeatedly engaged in unlawful file-sharing — however didn’t take motion to chop off their entry — even with out proof that the ISP itself took affirmative steps to facilitate the infringement.

The case has a background: a jury beforehand awarded over US$1 billion in damages to file labels (affiliated with Sony) based mostly on allegations that Cox ignored repeated infringement by its subscribers. That verdict was partially overturned on attraction, which remanded the matter for reconsideration. The Supreme Court docket’s determination may re-set the principles for secondary legal responsibility of ISPs.

U.S. Court docket orders OpenAI handy over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in copyright-suit led by The New York Instances

A U.S. federal decide — Ona Wang (Justice of the Peace Decide, Southern District of New York) — dominated that OpenAI should produce roughly 20 million anonymized user-chat logs from ChatGPT for discovery in a copyright lawsuit introduced by the New York Instances and different media retailers. The courtroom rejected OpenAI’s arguments that turning over the logs would violate person privateness.

The information retailers argue the logs are vital: they contend the logs will present whether or not ChatGPT output reproduces or carefully mirrors copyrighted content material from their publications. OpenAI had objected, claiming that just about all of the chat logs have been irrelevant to the dispute and that handing them over would compromise person belief and confidentiality. The decide held that the logs are related and that inbuilt de-identification and protecting orders sufficiently mitigate privateness dangers

Star dancers & a lawmaker demand higher copyright safety for choreography in Okay-pop 

On 4 December 2025, a bunch of distinguished Okay-pop choreographers and a member of the Korean parliament convened at a chat present hosted by Korea Choreography Copyright Affiliation (KCCA) and the Korean Sports activities Growth Affiliation in Seoul.

Among the many panel have been celebrated choreographers like Lia Kim, founding father of 1Million Dance Studio, and Choi Younger‑joon, together with legislator Jin Jong‑ho (Individuals Energy Social gathering), an ex-Olympian and former athlete. They collectively known as for stronger authorized recognition and safety of choreography as a standalone inventive work — together with obligatory attribution and higher enforcement of rights.

U.S. media v. AI startup: New York Instances (and Chicago Tribune submitting) — copyright combat vs AI summarizer/startup

On December 5, 2025, The New York Instances filed a lawsuit within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York towards Perplexity AI.

The criticism alleges that Perplexity has engaged in “large-scale, illegal copying and distribution” of NYT’s copyrighted content material — together with articles, movies, and podcasts — to energy its AI instruments.

The lawsuit claims Perplexity reproduces NYT materials verbatim or “near-verbatim,” presents it to customers as its personal output, and even attributes fabricated content material to the Instances

 

The Music Majors within the Digital Music Worlds – Music Enterprise Analysis

The Music Majors within the Digital Music Worlds – Music Enterprise Analysis

by | Dec 7, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News


What position do main music labels play in creating digital music avatars? Are Common, Sony and Warner spearheading innovation by creating their very own AI musicians, or are they merely responding to present traits and technological developments? These questions will probably be answered partially 5 of the “Digital Music Worlds” sequence.

Digital Music Worlds – Half 5: The Music Majors within the Digital Music Worlds

Warner Music Group: Whet Information, Genuine Artists, Noonoouri

The main music labels, Common, Sony and Warner, haven’t been pioneers within the area of digital and, particularly, AI-generated artists. In July 2021, Warner Music Group’s Chinese language sub-label, Whet Information, signed the digital artist Ha Jiang. At that time, the avatar was already an influential influencer who was additionally positioned as a rap musician.[1] The Whet/Warner deal aimed to determine the digital artist as a music star, however this evidently failed. 4 years later, Ha Jiang has nearly disappeared from the web. Whet Information’ YouTube channel has solely 26 movies and three,420 subscribers, and has not been up to date for 3 years. The one content material that includes Ha Jiang is a “Drunk Groove” remix by the blue-haired digital singer, which has had a modest 109,637 views in 4 years.[2]

Additional monetary involvement within the digital music world additionally seems to be unsustainable for Warner. In June 2022, Warner Music Group led an funding consortium that offered thousands and thousands of US {dollars} in funding to “Genuine Artists”, an AI firm based by Chris McGarry in San Francisco in 2019.[3] The consequence was the event of twelve prototypes of supernatural digital artist avatars, starting from cyborgs to iguana DJs, which had been featured on the in-house label “WharpSound”.[4] Nonetheless, the provide, which was apparently aimed primarily on the gaming group, didn’t appear to have met with the required response. Chris McGarry’s final interview for the New Yorker dates from February 2023 and asks whether or not AI steals from artists.[5] After that, issues went quiet round “Genuine Artists” and its founder. The homepage “authentic-artists.ai” is simply as unavailable because the “WharpSound” label’s webpage. Warner will in all probability have already written off its funding in “Genuine Artists”.

In September 2023, Warner Music Germany signed a brand new music avatar. Style influencer Noonoouri, who has modelled for manufacturers equivalent to Dior, Lacoste, Balenciaga, Valentino and Versace, and whose followers embody Kim Kardashian, Naomi Campbell and Lewis Hamilton,[6] recorded the tune “Dominoes” with German DJ Alle Farben for Warner. Whereas Noonoouri’s voice is AI-generated, similar to her digital look, the lyrics of the tune had been contributed by a collective of songwriters.[7]

Behind Noonoouri is Joerg Zuber, who has been working the artistic company Joerg Zuber Studio in Munich for greater than 20 years. Zuber had the thought of making a digital influencer and launching her available on the market. Zuber’s idea was initially met with rejection, so he determined to take a danger and launched the computer-generated avatar in February 2018 with none monetary backing. However when celebrities equivalent to Naomi Campbell and Marc Jacobs grew to become followers and well-known trend manufacturers found Noonoouri, the success was unstoppable.[8] Noonoouri now has round 500,000 followers on Instagram,[9] and the music video for “Dominoes” has been considered round 300,000 occasions (as of September 2025).[10] Following the success of the debut album, Warner 2024 teamed up with Enisa Nikaj, a New Yorker of Albanian descent who’s signed to the Atlantic sub-label, on the tune challenge “Up All Nite” with Noonoouri. Nonetheless, “Up All Nite” was unable to match the success of the debut single. With just below 394,000 performs on Spotify[11] and round 180,000 views on YouTube,[12] it lags far behind “Dominoes”. However, one other try was made in Could 2025 to determine Noonoouri as a pop star with the discharge of the third single, ‘Launch Me’. For this single, the avatar collaborated with twin brothers Harvey Kitt and Max Luca Mills, who got here second as duo Max and Harvey within the TV expertise present “The X Issue: Celeb”.[13] Nonetheless, success has been modest up to now. The YouTube video has had round 273,500 views within the first 4 months[14] and ‘Launch Me’ has been performed simply over 292,500 occasions on Spotify.[15] Which means Noonoouri continues to be a great distance from reaching the heights of human pop stars and subsequently stays primarily a profitable trend influencer.

Common Music Group: Kingship, FN Mekka, Genies Inc.

Common Music Group additionally entered the digital pop star enterprise in 2021. 5 months after Warner Music Group, Common’s sub-label “10:22PM” introduced the formation of the digital band Kingship.[16] The “band members” had been 4 characters from the profitable NFT challenge “Bored Ape Yacht Membership”, which continued with the “Mutant Ape Yacht Membership” and one other 20,000 ape NFTs in any case 10,000 NFTs of the long-lasting apes had been offered. Common, or “10:22PM”, hoped to capitalise on the recognition of the NFT apes and licensed the NFT characters to type a band.[17] In Could 2022, Common offered 5,000 NFT key playing cards, permitting consumers to entry the band’s digital world and different tokenised merchandise and experiences, because the cult monkeys had been set to make their debut within the metaverse. Initially priced at 0.19 Ether (roughly US $286), the NFTs had been traded on the Ethereum blockchain. By the tip of July 2022, all NFT playing cards had been offered, producing US $1.43 million in income for Common.[18]

What reads like the start of successful story led to catastrophe. On the finish of December 2024, Common deactivated all the monkey band’s social media accounts and deleted all of their YouTube and Discord channels.[19] What had occurred? Again in November 2023, the creator of Kingship, Celine Joshua, had left the “10:22PM” label for BMG Rights Administration.[20] By this level, the NFT increase had was a speculative bubble, with 95 per cent of NFT collections proving to be nugatory. Greater than 23 million NFT traders had misplaced their cash.[21] Common was pressured to take motion to keep away from being dragged right into a maelstrom of lawsuits alleging investor fraud. The value of NFTs from the “Bored Ape Yacht Membership” had plummeted, prompting traders to sue Yuga Labs, the producer of the NFT apes, in addition to celebrities equivalent to Justin Bieber, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Publish Malone and Serena Williams, and corporations equivalent to Adidas and the public sale home Sotheby’s. The plaintiffs accused the defendants of artificially inflating the worth of NFTs via their promoting of the ‘Bored Ape Yacht Membership’ to use small traders.[22] Common was not concerned within the lawsuit, however the challenge with the digital monkey avatars, which had began so promisingly, failed miserably on account of a misjudgement of the NFT market.

An excellent greater catastrophe was Common’s US subsidiary Capitol Information’ signing of “robotic rapper” FN Mekka in August 2021. Referring to the controversial avatar’s ten million TikTok followers, Capitol Information and FN Mekka’s developer, Manufacturing facility New, struck a deal to supply the only “Florida Water”. The tune, which was produced by a group led by Travis Scott, was created in collaboration with US rapper Guna {and professional} Fortnite gamer Clix.[23] This provoked a storm of indignation, particularly among the many Black group in america. The civil rights group Trade Blackout strongly criticised Capitol’s collaboration with Manufacturing facility New: “[W]e discover fault within the lack of information in how offensive this caricature [Anm. FN Mekka] is. It’s a direct insult to the Black group and our tradition. An amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, full with slurs infused in lyrics.”[24] After solely two weeks of collaboration, Capitol Information was pressured to cancel the FN Mekka deal on account of huge public protests and apologise to the Black group: “We provide our deepest apologies to the Black group for our insensitivity in signing this challenge with out asking sufficient questions on fairness and the artistic course of behind it.”[25] Shortly after this press launch, the tune “Florida Water” was faraway from all streaming platforms.

In 2021, Common not solely tried to capitalise on the NFT and TikTok increase but in addition wished to determine a presence in Net 3.0 and, above all, in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse. To this finish, Common entered a partnership with Los Angeles-based tech firm Genies Inc.,[26] which describes itself as a pacesetter within the creation of avatars for the metaverse.[27] Months earlier, Warner Music Group had already introduced its collaboration with Genies.[28]

Genies Inc. was based in 2017 by Akash Nigam and Evan Rosenbaum, who had beforehand met as faculty college students on the College of Michigan and launched the photo-sharing app Mix. As Mix’s success was modest, Nigam and Rosenbaum turned their consideration to creating personalised avatars utilizing AI.[29] This concept was very effectively acquired, and the primary traders got here ahead, offering a complete of US$ 40 million in enterprise capital between 2017 and 2019.[30] Armed with recent capital, the Genies founders developed a software program improvement package (SDK) that enabled customers to create their very own avatars on cell gadgets. Nonetheless, Genies’ actual breakthrough got here after they began creating avatars for celebrities, together with many pop stars trying to promote their model in Net 3 purposes and, above all, within the metaverse. The primary big-name stars to have avatars created by Genies had been Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes. Genies additionally started providing NFTs for star avatar equipment and different branded merchandise on the Dapper Labs blockchain. Seeing this success, Warner and Common now wished to fee avatars for his or her stars as effectively.[31]

This naturally attracted the eye of further traders, and in Could 2021, San Francisco-based enterprise capital agency BOND, along with an funding consortium, invested US $65 million in Genies, and BOND co-founder Mary Meeker joined the corporate’s government board.[32] There, in March 2022, she was joined by Walt Disney Inc. CEO Bob Iger, who additionally invested within the Avatar developer.[33] Only one month later, Genies achieved its greatest monetary coup so far when US personal fairness agency Silver Lake, which additionally held shares in Dell, Alibaba, William Morris Endeavor, Seagate Expertise and the New York tech trade NASDAQ, offered the corporate with US $150 million, pushing its worth to US $1 billion.[34] Regardless of this success story, the enterprise with star avatars within the metaverse has not likely taken off but. As we now have already proven elsewhere, the metaverse is more and more proving to be an enormous misinvestment, and corporations which have guess on this horse are already starting to query their investments. This additionally applies, in fact, to the 2 music majors, which had hoped that star avatars within the metaverse would generate further income, however this has not materialised up to now.

VTuber Initiatives by Sony Music Leisure Japan

Sony Music Leisure has not but entered the AI-generated music avatar enterprise, however Sony Music Leisure Japan (SMEJ), which operates as an impartial firm underneath the Sony Group umbrella, made its first entry into the avatar enterprise in Japan in 2022 with the PRISM challenge. Launched in January 2021, the challenge targets the VTuber group. It is a development originating in Japan, the place YouTubers – also referred to as digital YouTubers – use a computer-generated digital avatar as a substitute of their very own persona to create and stream content material.[35] SMEJ wished to faucet into this potential with the PRISM challenge and introduced an audition in August 2022 for VTubers in Japan who may take part with their avatars.[36] Nonetheless, the massive breakthrough has not materialised. Probably the most profitable artist so far has been Shiki Miyoshino, who had 160,000 subscribers on YouTube and generated round 300,000 views together with her most profitable music movies.[37]

One other music avatar challenge by SMEJ – ‘VEE Digital Leisure’ – has additionally not been profitable up to now. Much like the PRISM challenge, VTubers had been to be developed to succeed in a wider viewers with their music avatars. In Could 2022, the primary three digital VTuber abilities had been introduced to the general public and featured on YouTube, Twitch and Spotify.[38] A yr later, the avatars’ music movies had racked up a couple of tens of 1000’s of views on YouTube and remained under the radar on Spotify and Twitch.[39]

Up to now, the key labels haven’t fared effectively within the music avatar enterprise. Blinded by giant person numbers, they’ve tried to capitalise on present traits with out producing them themselves, as demonstrated by Common’s failures with the NFT apes and TikTok rapper FN Mekka. There’s a clear lack of expertise of how these new applied sciences work and what their potential is. The financial significance of the metaverse and the VTuber development in Japan have each been massively overestimated. In contrast to South Korean and Chinese language leisure corporations, the music majors haven’t invested in their very own music avatar initiatives. As an alternative, as with Warner’s funding in Noonoouri, they’re merely shopping for into them, with modest outcomes. The majors aren’t trendsetters, however fairly know-how followers who danger being left behind if AI-driven success breaks via for music avatars.

Endnotes

[1] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “This digital artist simply inked a serious report deal in China. One-off gimmick – or an indication of the long run?”, July 29, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-02.

[2] YouTube, “Whet Information”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-02.

[3] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Warner’s newest web3 transfer is an funding in digital artist and metaverse platform Genuine Artists”, June 23, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-02.

[4] Selection, “Digital-Musician Startup Genuine Artists, Backed by James Murdoch and Mike Shinoda, Comes Out of Stealth”, April 7, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-02.

[5] The New Yorker, “Is A.I. Artwork Stealing from Artists?”, February 10, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-02.

[6] Forbes, “Digital Influencer Noonoouri Lands Document Deal: Is She The Future Of Music?”, September 5, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[7] Ibid.

[8] At the very least, that’s what Joerg Zuber says in a brief video on YouTube, “Noonoouri: Abgelehnte Idee wird zum Riesen-Erfolg”, February 16, 2025, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[9] Instagram, “Noonoouri”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-03.

[10] YouTube, “noonoouri & Alle Farben – Dominoes (Official Music Video)”, September 1, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[11] Spotify, “Noonoouri”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-03.

[12] YouTube, “noonoouri & ENISA – Up All Nite”, June 28, 2024, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[13] FAZEMag, “noonoouri: von der Modewelt ins Musik-Enterprise mit ‘Launch Me’ (Warner Music)”, Could 9, 2025, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[14] YouTube, “noonoouri & Max and Harvey – Launch Me”, Could 9, 2025, accessed: 2025-09-03.

[15] Spotify, “Noonoouri”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-03.

[16] Common Music Group press launch, “10:22PM Types Kingship, the First-ever Group Consisting of NFT Characters from Bored Ape Yacht Membership”, November 11, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[17] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Meet KINGSHIP, a brand new digital group launched by Common label 10:22PM”, November 12, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[18] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Common’s digital band KINGSHIP simply offered out its total assortment of 5,000 NFT ‘Key Playing cards’”, July 21, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[19] Digital Music Information, “So Lengthy, Kingship — Bored Ape ‘Supergroup’ Deletes Social Handles, YouTube Channel, and Web site As NFT Fallout Continues”, December 27, 2024, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[20] Ibid.

[21] Digital Music Information, “95% of NFT Collections, Held by Over 23 Million Folks, Are Now ‘Nugatory,’ Examine Finds”, September 21, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[22] Digital Music Information, “Federal Decide Rejects Dismissal Motions in Bored Ape NFT Lawsuit Towards Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Many Others”, August 21, 2024, accessed: 2025-09-04.

[23] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Capitol Information simply signed a digital artist, FN Meka. He has over 10 million followers on TikTok”, August 12, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[24] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Capitol drops ‘robotic rapper’ FN Meka, as challenge is accused of being an ‘insult to the Black group’”, August 24, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[25] Ibid.

[26] Common Music Group press launch, “Common Music Group and Genies Announce International Patrtnership to Develop Avatars and Digital Wearable NFTs for the Firm’s Iconic Roster of Artists”, December 9, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[27] Crunchbase, “Genies”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-09.

[28] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Warner Music Group companions with tech firm Genies to develop avatars and NFTs for WMG artists”, April 30, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[29] TechCrunch, “Meet ‘Genies,’ the lifelike customized avatars that reenact information”, December 8, 2017, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[30] Crunchbase, “Genies”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-09.

[31] Engadget, “Rihanna, Migos and extra are getting official metaverse avatars”, December 13, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[32] TechCrunch, “Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding spherical led by Mary Meeker’s Bond”, Could 3, 2021, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[33] The Wall Avenue Journal, “After Walt Disney, Robert Iger Heads to the Metaverse”, March 14, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[34] TechCrunch, “Avatar startup Genies hits $1 billion valuation in newest increase”, April 12, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[35] Wikipedia, “VTuber”, model of September 3, 2025, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[36] PR Newswire, “Digital Expertise Administration Company PRISM Challenge Publicizes 2022 Auditions”, August 9, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[37] YouTube, “Shiki Miyoshino”, n.d., accessed: 2025-09-09.

[38] Anime Information Community, “Sony Music Leisure (Japan) Inc. Publicizes VTuber Challenge ‘VEE’, 5 1st Gen Abilities to Debut”, Could 23, 2022, accessed: 2025-09-09.

[39] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Meet the digital artists backed by a number of the world’s greatest leisure corporations”, Could 22, 2023, accessed: 2025-09-09.



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0n the nȩw album, Come See Me in the Greaƫ Mild, Sarah Bareilles.

by | Nov 30, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News

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