IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (SEP 8-14, 2025)

IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS (SEP 8-14, 2025)

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


Delhi Excessive Courtroom affirms character rights of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Grants injunctions in opposition to unauthorized use

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has granted reduction to actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, restraining unauthorized use of their identify, picture, and likeness. The Courtroom handed an interim injunction in opposition to varied digital platforms and entities that have been discovered to be misappropriating Abhishek Bachchan’s persona for business achieve, together with the unauthorized use of his images, voice, and signature. In a parallel case regarding Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Courtroom took critical observe of the circulation of AI-generated pornographic content material and the misuse of her picture on merchandise, observing that such acts represent as an infringement of her character and privateness rights.

Learn the orders right here and right here

No certification for movie that ridicules faith, incites hatred, threatens social concord: Delhi HC

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom just lately upheld the refusal by the Central Board of Movie Certification (CBFC) to certify the movie “Masoom Kaatil”, discovering that its content material together with spiritual ridicule, communal remarks, extreme violence, and depictions of lawlessness posed a risk to social concord and violated established statutory and guideline provisions beneath the Cinematograph Act, 1952 and the CBFC’s 1991 Pointers. Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora held that whereas creative freedom is protected beneath Article 19(1)(a), it’s not absolute, and should yield to cheap restrictions within the pursuits of decency, morality, and public order.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom refuses interim reduction to Dharma Productions in Shamshera copyright case

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has declined to grant interim reduction to Dharma Productions in a copyright infringement case regarding its movie Shamshera. The grievance, filed by author Bikramjeet Singh Bhullar, alleges that the movie copies substantial parts from his unpublished work “Kabu Na Chhadein Khet”, shared with the manufacturing home in 2007. Whereas the Courtroom issued discover on the petition difficult the FIR, it refused to remain the investigation. The matter is subsequent listed for listening to on October 14, 2025.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom imposes tremendous on NDTV Anchor Gargi Rawat in defamation go well with filed by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

The Delhi District Courtroom has imposed a tremendous of INR 10,000 on NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat in a defamation case initiated by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra. The Courtroom held that Rawat’s act of ‘liking’ a tweet containing defamatory allegations in opposition to Iyer-Mitra amounted to republication of the defamatory content material, thereby attracting legal responsibility. Whereas the plaintiff had sought damages of INR 20 lakhs, the Courtroom moderated the penalty contemplating the conduct of each events. Moreover, the Courtroom took opposed observe of Rawat’s refusal to look for examination throughout the proceedings. As per the Order, the tremendous is to be paid inside two weeks, failing which curiosity on the charge of 6% every year shall accrue.

PIL Filed in Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom Over ‘Bhai Vakil Hai’ Tune from Jolly LLB 3

A PIL has been filed within the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom difficult the music “Bhai Vakil Hai” from the movie Jolly LLB 3, alleging that it portrays legal professionals in a derogatory and offensive method. The petition contends that the music demeans the authorized career and undermines public confidence within the judiciary. This improvement follows comparable litigation in Ahmedabad. The Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom is scheduled to listen to the matter on September 12, 2025.

Supreme Courtroom to determine validity over on-line gaming legislation, transfers instances from Excessive Courts

The Supreme Courtroom of India has transferred all petitions difficult the constitutionality of the Promotion and Regulation of On-line Gaming Act, 2025, to itself, consolidating instances from a number of Excessive Courts together with Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Delhi.  The Act’s ban on on-line cash gaming is contested on grounds of violating elementary rights beneath Articles 14, 19, and 21.

DPDP Guidelines to be notified earlier than upcoming parliament session

The Central Authorities plans to inform and begin implementation of the Digital Private Knowledge Safety Guidelines forward of the upcoming session of Parliament, in response to Union Minister for Electronics and Data Expertise, Ashwini Vaishnaw, in an announcement to Moneycontrol. “I have to thank the business, they got here up with a lot openness, positivity, constructive concepts. And that’s virtually completed now. We should always be capable of publish it effectively earlier than the subsequent session of Parliament,” he mentioned within the interview.

Supreme Courtroom permits Cognizant to proceed utilizing brand pending last listening to

The Supreme Courtroom of India has stayed a Bombay Excessive Courtroom Division Bench order that had restrained Cognizant from utilizing its hexagonal brand in a trademark dispute with Atyati Applied sciences. Atyati alleges that Cognizant’s brand is deceptively just like its personal mark, used since 2019. The Single Decide had initially allowed Cognizant to proceed utilization, however this was later overturned by the Division Bench. The Supreme Courtroom has now restored the sooner interim reduction in Cognizant’s favour. The Excessive Courtroom has been directed to determine the injunction software inside six months.

Movie Producers and FEFSI Resolve Dispute Via Mediation

The Tamil Movie Producers Council (TFPC) and the Movie Staff Federation of South India (FEFSI) have amicably settled their long-standing dispute over wages and dealing situations by way of mediation led by retired Justice M. Govindaraj. A joint memorandum of compromise was submitted earlier than the Madras Excessive Courtroom, which closed the pending petitions. Underneath the settlement, current phrases will proceed from March 10, 2022, to March 9, 2025, after which a contemporary memorandum of understanding with revised clauses shall be drafted. The brand new settlement shall be binding on all producer associations concerned in Tamil movie productions and shall be topic to evaluate each three years.

Delhi Courtroom Bars Journalists & Web sites from Publishing Unverified, Defamatory Reviews on Adani Group

A Delhi courtroom (Rohini Courts, Particular Civil Decide Anuj Kumar Singh) granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of Adani Enterprises, restraining a number of journalists and web sites from publishing or circulating “prima facie defamatory and unverified” content material concerning the Adani Group. The defendants named embrace particular journalists (Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair, Abir Dasgupta, Ayaskant Das, Ayush Joshi) and web sites equivalent to pranjoy.in, adaniwatch.org, and adanifiles.com.au. The courtroom held that there’s a prima facie case for defamation, that continued publication dangers irreparable hurt to Adani’s popularity, and ordered elimination of defamatory content material inside 5 days. The ruling additionally refers to obligations beneath the IT Guidelines, 2021 concerning elimination of such content material inside 36 hours as soon as notified.

Makers of Nayanthara: Past the Fairytale Search Out-of-Courtroom Settlement Over Chandramukhi Lawsuit

The documentary Nayanthara: Past the Fairytale is beneath authorized problem from AB Worldwide (producers of Chandramukhi) for allegedly utilizing footage with out permission, for which they’re in search of ₹5 crore in damages. The case was listed on September 10, 2025, and fairly than go to trial, Nayanthara’s authorized staff is discussing an out-of-court settlement with AB Worldwide, aiming to resolve the dispute earlier than the subsequent listening to scheduled for October 6.

Madras Excessive Courtroom Halts Good Unhealthy Ugly Screenings Over Use of Ilaiyaraaja’s Songs

The Madras Excessive Courtroom has issued an interim injunction restraining the producers of Good Unhealthy Ugly (Mythri Film Makers) from exhibiting, distributing, promoting, or streaming the movie if it incorporates three basic songs by Ilaiyaraaja — Otha Rubayum Thaaren, Ilamai Idho Idho, and En Jodi Manja Kuruvi — which the composer alleges have been used with out his permission. The courtroom took this choice after discovering the producer’s reply to his authorized discover obscure and unsubstantiated, significantly in failing to call the rights holder or present proof of authorization.

Punjab & Haryana Excessive Courtroom Dismisses Plea Over Songs Glorifying Medication, Alcohol on Streaming Platforms

The Punjab & Haryana Excessive Courtroom threw out a contempt petition in search of enforcement of a 2019 ruling that barred songs selling alcohol, medication or violence at reside exhibits, arguing the order was restricted to controlling noise air pollution at bodily venues-not on-line or streaming platforms. Advocate Hardik Ahluwalia’s petition claimed that authorities ignored the 2019 route and that such songs stay freely obtainable on providers like YouTube, Spotify, and JioSaavn. However Justice Sudeepti Sharma held that the petitioner failed to indicate willful disobedience of these orders or that they ever utilized to on-line content material, and thus dismissed the case.

Nepal Scraps Social Media Ban After Violent Youth Protests Go away Practically 20 Lifeless

The Nepal authorities revoked its ban on 26 social media platforms together with Fb, X, and WhatsApp following huge youth-led protests that turned violent in Kathmandu, through which a minimum of 19 individuals died and over 300 have been injured. The shutdown had been ordered as a result of these platforms allegedly did not register with the federal government. Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung introduced the withdrawal after an emergency cupboard assembly, and companies have been instructed to revive entry consistent with protesters’ calls for.

Bombay Excessive Courtroom Bars Mumbai Police from Submitting Chargesheet Towards Dhruva Sarja With out Courtroom’s Permission

The Bombay Excessive Courtroom has restrained the Mumbai Police from submitting a chargesheet in opposition to Kannada actor Dhruva Sarja in a dishonest and prison breach of belief case, until the Courtroom grants permission. The case stems from a producer, Raghvendra Hegde, claiming Sarja took INR 3 crore upfront between 2016-2018 for a movie known as The Soldier, which was by no means accomplished. With 18% annual curiosity since 2018, the producer alleges losses have grown to over INR 9 crore. Sarja’s facet admitted receipt of the funds however argued delays weren’t his fault and {that a} usable script was delivered solely in December 2023. Previous to this order, the courtroom had directed Sarja to deposit INR 3.10 crore as a present of excellent religion.

The Financial Potential of MIMs – Music Enterprise Analysis

The Financial Potential of MIMs – Music Enterprise Analysis

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


Within the earlier 4 components (half 1, half 2, half 3 and half 4) of the sequence on music funding marketplaces, we analysed many alternative enterprise fashions, together with people who have failed. On this fifth and last a part of the weblog sequence, we’ll summarise the findings from components 1-4 and assess the financial potential of the person fashions. Particularly, we’ll consult with the completely different copyright frameworks in america in comparison with different nations, particularly in Europe, to reply the query of what’s wanted to create a well-functioning and clear music funding market.

Music Funding Marketplaces – Half 5: The Financial Potential of MIMs

Completely different Enterprise Fashions of MIMs

Music funding marketplaces purpose to monetise music rights for buyers and create a market for them. Nonetheless, evaluation of music funding marketplaces exhibits that there are at the moment many alternative fashions vying for the favour of buyers. Usually, MIMs goal small buyers and music followers who should purchase shares in music rights for a number of {Dollars} or Euros. There are additionally choices corresponding to Royalty Alternate, sliceNote and JKBX, that are aimed extra at rich buyers or excessive web price people who can afford to speculate bigger quantities per share. Generally, nonetheless, buyers can’t purchase music rights instantly, however solely participation rights in royalty streams. Resulting from copyright legal guidelines in a lot of the European nations, it isn’t potential to buy music rights. Rights can solely be licensed to be used. Because of this, European marketplaces solely supply oblique methods for consumers to generate income from music rights. Completely different methods are used. The Austrian MIM World Rockstar presents “alternatives” through a crowdfunding platform to small buyers who can purchase participation rights within the income streams of artists. As World Rockstar additionally operates a label and a music publishing firm, artists can both license their rights on to World Rockstar or supply them on the market instantly on the platform within the type of participation rights. In each instances, buyers don’t obtain any rights to the underlying publishing and grasp rights.

Different platforms additionally supply rights to royalty streams, marketed beneath names corresponding to “SongShares” from the French firm Bolero or “Preliminary Music Choices” (IMOs) from the Swedish MasterExchange. The US-based JKBX additionally doesn’t promote shares in music rights or songs instantly, however participatory rights within the type of “Royalty Shares”. Solely the US platforms slice Be aware and Royalty Alternate supply shares in music rights for direct buy, primarily to rich buyers keen to pay US $10,000 per share.

Shares are offered both at costs set upfront by the platforms or the rights house owners, or via auctions, as within the case of SongVest, Musicow and ANote Music. Musicow and ANote Music enable bought shares to be resold on secondary buying and selling platforms after the preliminary buy, though the administration charge per transaction is often larger on the secondary market. The European MIMs Tangy Market and Bolero observe an analogous mannequin, however and not using a prior public sale. Resale platforms are additionally deliberate for World Rockstar and JKBX. Nonetheless, JKBX explicitly states that the Royalty Shares can solely be traded on the corporate’s personal secondary gross sales platform and never on an exterior inventory trade.

Some platforms try to unravel the repurchase of music rights shares via tokenisation, promoting the participation rights within the type of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the blockchain. Swedish platforms MasterExchange and Anotherblock and Turkish platform Parça promote music rights NFTs on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains respectively. The Austrian platform World Rockstar additionally permits the acquisition of NFTs along with the traditional analogue sale of “alternatives”.

The Situations for a Functioning Music Funding Market

The completely different fashions present that it’s tough to make music rights a tradable commodity that may be purchased and offered by small buyers. Particularly outdoors the US, copyright legal guidelines make it tough to make music rights tradable as monetary merchandise. As well as, many artists don’t management their publishing and mastering rights and may solely “promote” their earnings streams from accumulating societies within the type of participation rights. It’s simpler for music publishers and labels to monetise their music catalogues on MIMs, as the instance of JKBX exhibits.

The US subsequently has a bonus over the EU due to its copyright framework. It’s not solely the likelihood to promote copyright and associated rights that makes the US a thriving music rights market, but in addition the opportunity of reversion rights, that are primarily utilized by superstars to regain management over their music catalogues. Nonetheless, the excessive fragmentation of rights within the EU can be an impediment to the event of a well-functioning music rights market. If, as within the US, it’s potential to amass not solely the publishing and grasp rights of an artist, but in addition the NIL (identify, picture and likeness) rights, then this bundle of rights has a better financial worth. Then again, transaction prices improve when completely different rights are distributed amongst completely different actors. If, furthermore, music rights can’t be offered however solely licensed to be used, as is the case within the EU, then, because the music funding marketplaces present, difficult workarounds corresponding to rights to royalty streams have for use. Finally, nonetheless, it’s a political determination whether or not the authorized framework ought to encourage the creation of music markets on the expense of the authorized safety of creators.

For music funding marketplaces to work effectively, they want additionally helpful music catalogues that generate a daily income stream. That’s why MIMs work higher in markets the place such music catalogues are extra available – such because the US, South Korea (because of Okay-Pop) and Sweden (because of many internationally profitable songwriters) – than in markets the place these situations aren’t met. The failure of Estonia’s Fanvestory is an efficient instance of how a supplier wants the backing of a robust market to function its enterprise mannequin in a sustainable means. This enterprise mannequin is based on taking administration charges, which vary from 1 to eight per cent per transaction for the varied suppliers. Nonetheless, it is sensible to have a second monetary mainstay, corresponding to World Rockstar, which can be a music writer and label. One other necessary success issue is that the MIMs have adequate liquidity, i.e. investor capital. An absence of liquidity has proved deadly for Fanvestory, Vezt and Royal.io, which have already ceased buying and selling attributable to a scarcity of investor capital.

That is additionally attributable to the truth that returns don’t at all times meet expectations. An evaluation of the returns on Royalty Alternate and JKBX exhibits that the values are extremely depending on {the catalogue} and the efficiency of particular person songs, which can be extremely risky over time. As well as, most platforms supply comparatively few funding alternatives, often effectively beneath 100. Solely Royalty Alternate and Musicow have greater than thousand funding alternatives on their webpages. World Rockstar, Tangy Market, SongVest, Bolero and JKBX are in the course of the vary with not less than 100 alternatives.

Mainly, it’s a dangerous funding that’s not advisable for small buyers with out prior information of how the music rights enterprise works. Because of this, South Korea’s Monetary Companies Fee took motion to research Musicow’s enterprise mannequin extra intently and solely gave the corporate the inexperienced mild to proceed working after the Korean platform improved investor safety.

Then again, music funding marketplaces enable artists to monetise their music rights and followers to speculate, not less than not directly, of their favorite music. Both means, there may be potential for the creation of an progressive market for music rights, though there must be regulatory safety for each the rights holders who supply their royalty shares on the market and the small-scale buyers who purchase monetary merchandise backed by music rights.

Lengthy Time No See Comedy Podcast

Lengthy Time No See Comedy Podcast

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

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The newest episode of Lengthy Time No See: The Podcast brings collectively comedians J.F. Harris (Invoice Burr’s The Ringers, The Late Late Present) and Martin Morrow (I Assume You Ought to Depart, St. Denis Medical), who’ve recognized one another for over a decade however by no means actually frolicked — till now. Pay attention as the 2 talk about roller-blade tradition, questionable vogue decisions, and the distinctive trauma of being your divorced mother’s emotional assist particular person within the episode above or wherever you get your podcasts.

Morrow reveals he didn’t date till he was in his late teenagers, however not for lack of want — he was simply too busy being his mother’s wingman. “My dad and mom acquired divorced after I was 5, and [my mom] handled me like [her] homosexual greatest buddy,” he jokes. “Like lots of complaining about totally different relationships or courting, and I’d must be like, ‘Aw, it’s okay mother, you’ll get it…’ There could be guys she’d be courting and I’d be like, ‘Nah, he’s an fool mother. You don’t need to date him.’”

On a weirder thread, the pair discuss locations they’d hang-out as ghosts, with Morrow suggesting it’d be enjoyable to hang-out a spot like Los Angeles’ Magic Fort. “A ghost and a magician? So annoying,” jokes again Harris, who has his personal afterlife goal: “I might like to hang-out the parking zone of a Deliberate Parenthood. Simply fuck with all of the protesters: ‘That is Jesus. You’re wrOOooOOOoonnNNggg!’”

Staying within the postmortem realm, Harris and Morrow additionally talk about the life statistics they’d prefer to see after they die. “I’d wanna know what number of occasions I used to be proper when folks had been satisfied that they had been proper, however it was really me who was proper,” jokes Morrow. “Like, ‘Fucking advised him! I knew it! They lied on me!’” Harris, in the meantime, would simply need to see what number of people he made snigger.

Be a part of that quantity by listening to the most recent episode of Lengthy Time No See: The Podcast or watching it in full above. You can too discover us in your favourite podcast platform, and don’t overlook to assist the present by following and leaving us a evaluate — particularly on Apple Podcasts.

Lengthy Time No See: The Podcast comes from Wes Brumbaugh and Jack Fink’s Lengthy Time No See Comedy showcase collection. The podcast was created in partnership with and is introduced by Consequence Podcast Community and Los Angeles’ Gold-Diggers, which not too long ago launched the Gold-Diggers Media manufacturing entity.



IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ( AUGUST 18-24, 2025 )

IPRMENTLAW WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ( AUGUST 18-24, 2025 )

by | Aug 31, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News

The 2025 Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act receives government’s approval.

The President gave the president’s aρproval of the 2025 Promotion and Regulation of Online Gαming Acƫ on August 22, 2025, αnd it is now α ɾules.

Features of the day:

  • Contains all of India and even includes online gambling services that are offered outside of India.
  • Games types:
      E-sports iȿ recognized as competitive sports anḑ promoted through education, research, and ȿituations.

    • No money is iȵvested įn website cultural activities, which are permitted fσr reçreation and education.
    • 0nline gambling iȿ strįctly prohibited, regardless of ability or prospect.
  • Prohibitions:
    • Ban on giving, promoting, or playing onIine gamblįng.
    • Ban on virtual gambling-related ads.
    • Ban on economic organizations that facilitate these kinds of purchases.
  • Central Government iȿ eɱpowered to establish an online gaming authority tσ oversee, describe, and coȵtrol games.
  • Penalties:
    • offering online gambling services for free ( higher penalties for repeat offenses ) or imprisonment for up to three years.
    • Marketing: INR 50 million or two-year incarceration.
    • Monetary dealings can result in fįnes of up to INR 1 million or imprisonment foɾ μp ƫo three ყears.
    • Follow offenses result iȵ ǥreater fineȿ and lower minimum penalties.
  • Infractions under Sections relating to entertainment and bank transfers are criminal and non-bailable in nature.
  • Protection: Central Government officials are empoωered tσ look intσ, research, capture, aȵd block online gambling platforms.
  • Act has the power to override other laws ‘ uneven rules, including those in the IT Act, where needed.

The Online Gaming Promotion and Regulation Act is available around.

Thȩ Delhi High Court has ruled įn a trademark infringement çase thαt Sci-Hub anḑ Sci-Net must be blocked.

In a private and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by printing companies Authorship, Wiley India, and the American Chemical Society, the Delhi High Court has issued an interim injunction blocking access to websites like” Sci-Hub” and” Sci-Net. ” Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora has requested that the websites be removed from the websites of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ( MEITY ) and the Department of Telecommunications.

Read the order below.

The Delhi Higⱨ Couɾt rulȩs that the terɱ” Yatra” is universal and cαnnot be used as a monopoly expression.

A request by Yatra Online Limited to stop Mach Conferences and Events Limited from offering service under the names BookMyYatra and BookMyYatra. com was just rejected by the Delhi High Court. The Court overturned a previous father falls decision in favor of Yatra Online, holding that the phrase” Yatra” cannot be used solely to describe travel.

Read the instructions right around.

The Delhi High Court approves the John Doe get favoring” Ghar Soaps. “

Iȵ a griȩvance againsƫ some unidentified businesses, tⱨe Delhi High Court issưed a john client order to protect the arƫistic freeḑom of” Ghar Soaps,” α company that produces healthy and chemįcal-free beauty products and iȿ accuȿed of using deceptively similar ρackaging.

Vijaყ’s party flag is restrained by ƫhe Madɾas Hįgh Court because iƫ is alleged that the mark was violations.

Due to a alleged brαnd violations, the Madras High Couɾt ḑenied Vįjay’s Tamilaǥa Vetrri Kazhagam party’s requeȿt fσr an interim injunction to stop the use of thȩ group symbol. The defendant’s claim that Vijay’s group’s use of the symbol constituted rights and trademark infringements was rejected by Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy.

Even if a moviȩ name is registered ωith tⱨe video relationship, the Bombay Hįgh Court ɾules thαt copyright protection is not present for įt.

Thȩ manufacturȩr of thȩ 1993 Hiȵdi film Lootȩre filed an interim rights lawsuit with ƫhe Bombay High Court, finding that trademark laws ḑo ȵot protect a viḑeo title by simply registering it with aȵ organization. A simpIe name may be protected bყ copyright Iaws, and domestiç partnerships between picture business bodies are ineligible to non-members, according tσ the Courƫ’s rulinǥ.

Read the order below.

Ajey įs being watched bყ the Ɓombay High Court to end tⱨe censorship debate.

The Bombay High Court has stated that it will see Ajey: The Untold Story before deciding whether to approve the show’s producers ‘ request to guarantee it. Açcording to rȩports, the movie is based on Yogi Adityanath, the chief ministeɾ of Uttar Pradesh, wⱨo ωas iȵspired by thȩ text” Tⱨe Monk Who Became Chief Minister. “

The Jolly LLB 3 creators are summonsed to the Pune Court.

In response to a complaint from a city attorney preventing the release of the upcoming film Jolly LLB 3, a civil judge in Pune has summonsed professional Arshad Warsi, producer Subhash Kapoor, and maker Arun Bhatia. The movie teaseɾ is unpleasant tσ attorneys αnd the cσurt, according to a lawsuit brought by a ȿolicitor.

These, summonses can be seen.

The Second Wave of MIM Begin-ups, since 2021 – Music Enterprise Analysis

The Second Wave of MIM Begin-ups, since 2021 – Music Enterprise Analysis

by | Aug 24, 2025 | Entertainment Law, Music Business, Podcast News


The second wave of music funding marketplaces began in Europe, notably in Sweden, from 2021 onwards (for the primary start-up wave see half 2 of the collection). With Tangy Market, Grasp Trade and Anotherblock three new gamers entered the Swedish market between 2021 and 2023. The wave of latest firms continued with Bolero (2021) in France, Sonomo (2023) within the Netherlands, OG Music (2023) in Italy and Parca (2023) in Istanbul, Turkey. Within the US, three new music funding marketplaces have been launched in the identical interval: Band Royalty in 2021 and sliceNote in addition to JKBX in 2023. The developments within the music funding market since 2021 at the moment are the main target of the third a part of the weblog collection.

Music Funding Marketplaces – Half 3: The Second Wave of MIM Begin-ups, since 2021*

MIMs from Sweden: Tangy Market, MasterExchange, Anotherblock

Tangy Market was initially based in 2018 by former managing director of the Swedish music advocacy physique Musiksverige, Linda Portnoff, in Stockholm, however was launched for the general public in 2021. Within the meantime, Tangy Market in partnership with the Swedish accumulating society STIM to course of royalty funds, developed the cell app for the buying-and-selling-platform and purchased preliminary music property.[1] Tangy Market is a typical fractional royalty platform. Artists and different rightsholders can lease their royalty streams from their copyright for a restricted interval. Nonetheless, the rightsholders hold 100 per cent of the copyrights, as a result of they solely promote participation rights of their royalty revenues.[2] Tangy Market targets small traders and music followers, who can obtain the cell app, create a private account and deposit cash for funding. Buyers can then purchase and promote royalty shares of their favorite artists and take part within the royalty payouts. Apart from native Swedish music catalogues, Tangy Market additionally gives songs lined by celebrity artists resembling “Totally different Form of Love Tune” by Cher, “She Don’t Just like the Lights” by Justin Bieber and “Work B**ch!” by Britney Spears.[3]

MasterExchange was based by AI and blockchain knowledgeable Alexander Fred-Ojala with Star Steady founder Johan Edfeldt and music producer Jakke Erixson in Stockholm in 2022. MasterExchange is a music funding platform to purchase and promote shares in music royalty income streams. In an Preliminary Music Providing (IMO) the unique royalty proprietor sells a predetermined portion of the grasp royalties to traders. A royalty share is the distinctive tradable asset on the MasterExchange platform, representing a stake in a tune’s future grasp royalties. Like different fractional royalty platform, the traders don’t management the underlying copyright however personal a participation proper within the royalty income stream. In contrast to ANote Music or Tangy Market, the MasterExchange’s royalty share is related to an NFT on the Polygon blockchain. Nonetheless, MasterExchange conducts transactions in Euros reasonably than in cryptocurrency.[4] In August 2023, MasterExchange raised US $2.7 million in funding from a number of traders together with Vectr Fintech and launched the primary preliminary music providing of the tune “Sofia” by Alvaro Soler, launched in July 2016, which has generated over 2 billion music streams throughout numerous platforms, particularly in Italy and in Spain.[5]

The Stockholm-based Web3 platform Anotherblock launched an NFT market for music royalties in 2022 and secured a threat funding of US $8 million by way of three seed funding rounds.[6] Music rightsholders can supply shares of their royalty income streams on Anotherblock’s platform.[7] One instance was the Swedish songwriter and producer Alex Karlsson, who wrote songs for Ok-Pop acts resembling BTS, NCT, TXT and Twice, and provided the BTS hit “We Are Bulletproof: The Everlasting” on Anotherblock’s web site. Buyers should buy a 0.004 per cent share of a royalty NFT for 0.023 Ether, which truly equates to US $63.[8] The royalty NFTs are tradeable and will be bought on the secondary market on the Anotherblock platform.

Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Istanbul: Bolero, Sonomo, OG Music, Parça

Bolero was based by William Bailey and Arthur Amon in Paris in 2021 and is a fractional royalty platform. The enterprise mannequin is similar to that of ANote Music. Buyers should buy and promote so-called “Tune Shares” in single songs or tune catalogues. A Tune Share is a digital asset that entitles to get a share of the correct to obtain proportional royalties from publishing and grasp rights of a particular tune or tune catalogue. Rights holders can switch their revenue streams from the accumulating societies to Bolero for a predefined interval however retain the underlying rights. Subsequently, the traders don’t management the underlying copyright however purchase a participation proper within the income stream generated by licensing of the tune/tune catalogue to music customers resembling music streaming companies, radio and TV stations. Bolero additionally gives a secondary market platform, the place the traders can commerce their acquired Tune Shares.[9]

Sonomo is one other fractional music funding platform working in an identical approach to the aforementioned firms. Based by Faris Saher within the Netherlands in 2022, it gives investments in the correct to say future revenues derived from grasp royalties, however not the underlying royalties or grasp rights.[10] Sonomo is targeted on grasp rights and doesn’t supply participation rights in income streams from exploiting publishing rights. The primary goal, subsequently, are indie file labels and artists, who personal their grasp rights. The rightsholders outline the preliminary share value, beginning at EUR 10, and Sonomo solely facilitates the change of shares and handles all following payout disbursement. At present traders from the EU should buy shares from 6 songs and three baskets of songs containing 42, 47 and 685 songs respectively.[11]

OG Music was based by Edoardo Tamburi and Federico Fundarò in Milan/Italy in 2023. OG Music copies the idea of quite a few pre-existing platforms resembling Anotherblock and MasterExchange, by which revenue participation rights are bought to future revenues from the exploitation of music rights. OG Music guarantees traders: “if you buy 1% of the streaming rights of a tune for five years, you’ll have the chance to periodically obtain the royalties that the tune collects by way of streaming.” The traders need to deposit an amount of cash in Euros on the platform by bank card or financial institution switch. This may be allotted to completely different tasks; nonetheless, a minimal funding of EUR 10 is critical. In return they obtain periodic funds from the completely different makes use of of the songs.[12]

Additionally in 2023, the fractional music funding platform Parça was based by Parça Teknoloji in Istanbul/Turkey. The enterprise idea is just like that of many music funding marketplaces already described. Buyers can purchase shares in royalty streams within the type of participation rights and resell them on a secondary market platform, though the latter is, nonetheless, solely in growth at Parça. For every profitable transaction, Parça costs a 5 per cent fee payment, no matter whether or not it’s an preliminary sale or a sale on the secondary buying and selling platform. Parça is the place traders can put their cash, primarily for Turkish repertoire. There are at present 69 songs on the market on the homepage, with lots of them by the identical artists.[13]

Again within the USA: Band Royalty and sliceNote

Within the USA, three additional music funding marketplaces have been launched within the second wave of start-ups. In 2021, the music trade veterans Barnaby Andersun and Noble Drakoln established Band Royalty, which has acquired music rights of 57 songs carried out by platinum-selling artists resembling Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Beyonce, Cher and so forth.[14] In contrast to different MIMs, the corporate doesn’t instantly supply stakes in songs and songs catalogues, however in royalty music swimming pools. If an investor buys a so-called BAND Music NFT, she is going to change into a member of the Music Mogul Membership, which gives entry to the three royalty music swimming pools. However to entry royalty income the investor should purchase no less than one of many acquired BAND NFT from these music royalty swimming pools and activate the staking of the BAND NFTs. This gives entry to the revenues from the royalty streams throughout the three staking swimming pools. The extra BAND Royalty NFTs an investor owns and stakes, the bigger is her royalty share. The NFTs are based mostly on the Ethereum blockchain and solely a complete of 12,000 NFTs can be found.[15]

In contrast to Band Royalty, sliceNote is a music funding market, that doesn’t use blockchain know-how and NFTs to commerce music royalty shares. SliceNote was based by the Utah-based BeatBread, which began as a platform to supply advances to artists for his or her current tune catalogues, but additionally for his or her unreleased music. In return, BeatBread receives a share within the artists’ royalty funds, over a interval decided by the artist. BeatBread was based in 2020 by Peter Sinclair and was in a position to elevate US $34 million in a primary funding spherical in February 2022 and closed one other US $100 million fund with Variant Investments in November 2022. In April 2023, BeatBread launched the music funding platform sliceNote, which gives certified traders (excessive web value people, file labels, music publishers and so forth.) the likelihood to put money into fractional shares as small as 1 per cent per deal.[16] Thus, sliceNote just isn’t a typical fractional royalty platform resembling SongVest and Musicow, however a music rights gross sales platform extra corresponding to Royalty Trade.

Determine 1: Listing of music funding marketplaces

Music Funding Market (MIM) Yr of basis Location MIM-Sort Variety of songs/rights
SongVest 2008
relaunch: 2020		 USA Fractional royalty gross sales platform 192
World Rockstar 2014 Austria Crowdfunded royalty gross sales platform greater than 400
Royalty Trade 2015 USA Music rights public sale platform 2,132
Vezt 2016 USA Fractional royalty gross sales platform defunct
Musicow 2016 South Korea Fractional royalty public sale platform greater than 1,400
Fanvestory 2017 Estonia Crowdfunded royalty gross sales platform defunct
ANote 2018 Luxembourg Fractional royalty public sale and buying and selling platform 26
Tangy Market 2021 Sweden Fractional royalty gross sales and buying and selling platform greater than 300
Band Royalty 2021 USA Fractional NFT royalty gross sales platform 57
Bolero 2021 France Fractional royalty gross sales and buying and selling platform 144
Grasp Trade 2022 Sweden Fractional NFT royalty gross sales and buying and selling platform 13
Anotherblock 2022 Sweden Fractional NFT royalty gross sales and buying and selling platform 11
Sonomo 2023 Netherlands Fractional royalty gross sales platform 9
OG Music 2023 Italy Fractional royalty gross sales platform 16
Parça 2023 Turkey Fractional royalty gross sales and buying and selling platform 39
sliceNote 2023 USA Music rights gross sales platform n.a.
JKBX 2023 USA Fractional royalty gross sales platform 97

The fourth a part of the weblog collection will take a more in-depth take a look at the US micro-royalty gross sales platform JKBX, which may act as a recreation changer by linking the billion-dollar music rights market with music funding marketplaces.

Endnotes

[1] Tangy Market, “About Us”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[2] Tangy Market, “For Creators”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[3] Tangy Market, “Funding Calculator”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[4] MasterExchange, “How It Works”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[5] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “After elevating $2.7m, music royalties market MasterExchange sells out its first ‘preliminary music providing’”, August 17, 2023, accessed: 2025-03-19.

[6] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “Web3 music startup anotherblock raises $4.3m in newest funding spherical”, Could 17, 2023, accessed: 2025-03-19.

[7] Anotherblock, “The trusted bridge to music rights investments”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[8] Anotherblock, “‘We Are Bulletproof: The Everlasting’ by Alex Karlsson”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[9] Bolero, “Incessantly Requested Questions”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-19.

[10] Fintech Finance Information, “Sonomo Hits the Proper Notice With Weavr’s Help”, November 22, 2022, accessed: 2025-03-24.

[11] Sonomo, “How It Works”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-24.

[12] OG Music, “FAQ”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-24.

[13] Parça, “How It Works”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-24.

[14] GlobeNewswire, “Band Royalty Makes Historical past With the Launch of the World’s First Multi-Monitor Music NFT”, Could 11, 2022, accessed: 2025-03-24.

[15] Band Royalty, “FAQs”, n.d., accessed: 2025-03-24.

[16] Music Enterprise Worldwide, “BeatBread brings fractional investing to the unbiased artist funding scene”, April 12, 2023, accessed: 2025-03-24.

* This weblog publish is predicated on the report IP Finance within the Music Trade, which was commissioned by the World Mental Property Rights Group (WIPO).

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