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Believe is restructuring its global management around Romain Vivien. The group has announced an expansion of his responsibilities as Global Head of Music, as part of a new…

It is within the Council of the European Union, where Member States are negotiating the future EU budget, that Brussels’ cultural ambitions are now coming up against financial…

ICANN is trialling a new mechanism to grant law enforcement agencies emergency access to non-public WHOIS data in situations involving an imminent threat to life, a risk of…

At the MaMA event held in northern Paris, the SNEP, the national trade union for the music publishing industry, organised a debate moderated by journalist Isabelle Szczepanski, with…

Will France eventually bring its legislation into line with the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)? On 13 October, Renaissance MP Céline Calvez tabled a bill aimed at granting…

SpaceX has agreed to pay around $8 billion to secure a significant block of low-frequency spectrum in the US. The announcement immediately weighed on the share prices of…

Audiobooks are certainly on the up! According to the Wall Street Journal , streaming giant YouTube is reportedly preparing an audiobook service for next year, following several months…

Universal Music Group is launching a new wave of job cuts across its US and UK operations, with the departure of several senior executives. The cuts are set…

The Music Publishers Association (MPA), the UK’s music publishers’ trade association, has appointed Richard King, Chief Executive of Faber Music, as its chair. The board of directors’ vote…

YouTube is going on the offensive against European proposals aimed at forcing platforms to give preferential visibility to certain audiovisual media, as part of the revision of the…

Deezer is adding a button to hide AI-generated music. The French platform appears convinced that some of its customers have an aversion to AI. It therefore promises these…

In a small, private event – without any French journalists present – Apple unveiled three products for the home. After more than four years of anticipation, HomeView has…

Setting up a company under a single legal status across all 27 Member States: this is the ambition of EU Inc., the ‘28th regime’ proposed by the European…

Since Yann Le Cun’s departure, Meta has been rolling out a series of releases in generative and agent-based AI. The company has just unveiled Muse Wonder, a new…

Apple is anticipating stronger-than-expected demand for the iPhone Duo, even though pre-orders are not due to begin until Friday 16 October. This is according to the Securities Times…

The label operates on a simple principle: self-declaration. “Initially, we planned to verify the works. But Jean-Patrice Glafkidès, the AI expert who joined the association, explained to us…

Gathering on 7 October at the initiative of the B2B IT Press Club to discuss digital sovereignty, six French and American industry leaders compared their real-world experiences, revealing…

Elon Musk wants to make Starlink more than just a satellite service for areas with poor coverage: SpaceX has announced that it has acquired 14 MHz of spectrum…

The websites of the 40 major French news organisations saw a 22.9 per cent drop in visits between September 2025 and September 2026, according to figures published by…

The most striking example is that of Anthropic. Its SDS for Claude Opus 5 refers in particular to Common Crawl, specialised datasets, licence agreements, private data and physical…

Our series on the future of audio concludes with this third instalment. Developments in this field are coming thick and fast, and AI has burst onto the scene.…

Spotify is accelerating rapidly in the audiobook market. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, the group announced that its service, currently available in 22 markets, will be rolled out…

Orange Business is expanding its ‘trusted cloud’ offering. ANSSI has just awarded SecNumCloud certification to a new Cloud Avenue environment, designed specifically for the most sensitive applications and…

The second instalment of your series on audio is devoted to streaming, following on from radio . Music streaming emerged on the scene at the start of the…

Artificial intelligence is radically transforming the market for polling organisations and specialist consultancies. In particular, it is quite radically altering the value of audience measurement companies. Not because…

We wanted to take this a step further following Médiamétrie’s publication of the latest figures from *L’Année Audio 2025–2026*. This study reveals much more than just the current…

ElectronLibre – The European Parliament wishes to increase the AgoraEU budget beyond the €8.58 billion proposed by the Commission. Do you support this increase? Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski –…

“ Culture is not merely a sector of public policy: it is the expression of a vision for society. That is why my political project is, first and…

The OpinionWay survey published by LexisNexis provides an interesting, albeit limited, snapshot of how the use of generative AI tools is evolving within the legal profession. Conducted amongst…

At its core, the dispute is a classic patent case. InterDigital, an American group with fewer than 500 employees – around half of whom are researchers – develops…