US EditionIndie Music Leaders Organize Against UMG-Downtown Deal With New Campaign: ‘A Serious Threat’
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Indie Music Leaders Organize Against UMG-Downtown Deal With New Campaign: ‘A Serious Threat’
Leaders across indie music are once again teaming up to speak out against Universal Music Group’s proposed acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings with a new campaign. Dubbed “100 Voices,” the campaign argues that the deal, which is currently the subject of an investigation by the European Commission, “poses a serious threat to competition, diversity and fair access across the music industry,” according to a press release. Downtown operates dis…
As indie labels ramp up campaign for EU to block the UMG x Downtown merger, a French music lawyer says concerns around data are “fantasy or paranoia”
The independent music sector has ramped up its campaign against Universal Music’s acquisition of Downtown Music, launching an initiative called ‘100 Voices’, which centres on a book and website containing statements from more than 100 label bosses, industry execs and trade body chiefs formally opposing the deal. Among them Beggars Group Chairman Martin Mills, who states, “We are now operating in an industry increasingly shaped by global corporat…
INDEPENDENT MUSIC COMMUNITY PUBLISHES “100 VOICES” ON WHY UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP’S ACQUISITION OF DOWNTOWN MUSIC HOLDINGS SHOULD BE BLOCKED
Independent music leaders today published 100 Voices, a campaign with a clear message - Universal Music Group’s proposed acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings should be blocked.
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