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Spotify is launching a stock repurchase program in Q4 2018, in which it hopes to buy back up to $1 billion worth of its stock (10,000,000 of its ordinary shares). According to a statement issued by Spotify today, the move was approved by the the company’s general meeting of shareholders and the Board of Directors. The repurchase program expires on April 21, 2021 but the company has included a disclaimer in its statement saying that the “program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at the company’s discretion”. It also adds that the repurchase programme “does not obligate the company to acquire any particular amount of ordinary shares”.   Rhoda Scott - Victoire d'Honneur de la Musique - Album "Blanc casse" Spotify’s indication of its intention to buy back $1bn worth of stock comes less than a week after its Q3 2018 earnings announcement, in which it revealed that it had turned a net profit for the first time in its history Spotify also confirmed th...

How do you know when a copyright has been infringed? For years, this wasn’t even a question people asked in China because it was so obvious. The guys on the corner with carts full of bootleg CDs and DVDs, the illegal BitTorrents and download sites – all of them were wantonly and flagrantly engaging in copyright infringement. Indeed, infringement was their business model. If they weren’t offering copies of copyrighted works, nobody would be interested. Slowly but surely, though, China’s enforcement of copyright infringement has improved – in large part because large Chinese companies like Baidu and Alibaba and Tencent now control the rights to a great deal of content and  their  business models are based on people not getting such content for free somewhere else. The BAT companies have turned to Chinese agencies and courts to enforce their rights, evidenced by a concomitant surge in copyright-related litigation. We wrote about this last year in Copyright Protection in C...

Quand le jazz s’appelle Rhoda Scott : Energie, chaleur, douceur pourraient être les qualificatifs de cette musicienne hors-norme qui a tant apporté à l’image de l’orgue Hammond dans notre pays. Elle combine avec grâce blues, soul & churchy. La rencontre de cet univers avec celui de Christophe Monniot, onirique, poétique, énergétique, est un évènement inouï à découvrir absolument. Le swing neo-orleannais de Jeff Boudreaux viendra enfin nourrir et épicer cette inédite promesse. Un feu doux, et brûlant à la fois ! Christophe MONNIOT : saxophones, synthétiseur Rhoda SCOTT : orgue Hammond Jeff BOUDREAUX : batterie Événement CHRISTOPHE MONNIOT, JEFF BOUDREAUX, RHODA SCOTT 07/02/2018 - 20:30 à 23:30 Studio de l'Ermitage 8 rue de l'Ermitage 75020 Paris FRANCE http://www.studio-ermitage.com    https://www.weezevent.com/christophe-monniot-jeff-boudreaux-rhoda-scott     CHRISTOPHE MONNIOT – JEFF BOUDREAUX ...

Sony Music and Chinese giant Tencent are starting a label together. Liquid State has been launched in Hong Kong this week, with a core focus on EDM and electronic music across Asia. The label will also locally get involved in live touring and nightclub events. Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is majority-owned by Chinese media giant Tencent Holdings, which currently has a market cap value in excess of US $500bn on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. TME itself is believed to be worth in the region of $10bn. In December, TME closed a stock swap deal whereby it acquired a 10% stake in Spotify. As part of the deal, Daniel Ek’s company also took ownership of a tenth of equity in TME. In other words, Sony has just launched a label with a company part-owned by Spotify. And like Universal, Warner and Merlin, Sony is itself a minority stake holder in Spotify. Sony Music Australia CEO and Chairman Denis Handlin of Liquid State’s launch: “These are exci...

CHRISTOPHE MONNIOT – JEFF BOUDREAUX and RHODA SCOTT Album “BLANC CASSE ” Digital & Physical Distribution   Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Sergent Major Company Ltd The Orchard Concert Exceptionnel - 7 Feb 2018 - Studio de l'Ermitage - Paris - 5 May 2018 - Chorus Club - Lausanne Monniot Boudreaux & Rhoda Scott - ALbum "Blanc Casse" on Itunes   Rencontre de talents............ Christophe Monniot a réuni la légendaire organiste aux pieds nus Rhoda Scott, et le batteur de la Nouvelle Orléans Jeff Boudreaux pour former un trio aux profondes couleurs de soul jazz, de swing, d’amour et de liberté !  Salles bouillantes aux ambiances électriques et éclectiques assurées ! Organiste mythique de la scène jazz et gospel, Rhoda Scott est l’invitée exceptionnelle du saxophoniste Christophe Monniot pour concert électrisant. Christophe Monniot est vraiment un des plus beaux emblèmes du jazz d’aujourd’hui ! Il bouscule les genres, se joue des...