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Strengthening Lithuania’s Music Economy: Engaging Government and Industry Leaders

Last week, I had the opportunity to visit Vilnius Muzikos Salė, Lithuania’s premier music industry event, where I participated in a series of discussions focused More

Lecturing at Warwick – revisiting Intellectual Property as Social Policy

Image above: Warwick University Faculty of Arts I’ve been a visiting lecturer at Warwick University since 2017, teaching on the Master degree course in More

The PTR Process – how we optimise rights and revenues internationally.

PTR specialises in empowering music rights holders with clarity, efficiency, and maximised revenues from their rights, wherever they may be based and wherever their More

DDEX RDR in Eastbourne

I have just returned from the DDEX plenary session in a very windswept and rainy Eastbourne this week, with a particular focus on the More

UK Government to extend rights to foreign performers for recordings used in the UK

Following a consultation from January to March 2024, the UK government today announced its decision to implement a mechanism to extend public performance rights More

Summus Barcelona and Two Lands / Madjlis

Summus 2024 – Barcelona This week I attended the SUMMUS conference in Barcelona, hosted by BMAT. I was asked by Neil Gaffney to speak More

Introducing Two Lands

I’m excited to share some music news. After many years of writing and producing solo, I am thrilled to announce a new music project: More

Working with the Ivors Academy as Interim CEO

In October I will taking up a part time role as interim CEO of the Ivors Academy.  It’s very exciting to have been asked More

Work updates and events: can AI write a convincing blog post for me?

Recently I ran a training seminar programme for a group of European music professionals, organised by Music Export (https://musicexportukraine.com). A couple of weeks earlier More

Why would Taylor Swift re-record her songs?

Last week I joined a forum as part of the All About Music conference in Mumbai – https://www.allaboutmusic.in/ It was really nice to meet More