Behind the music: Will record labels and streaming services ever agree?

Former BPI chariman Tony Wadsworth discusses the difficulties involved in securing streaming rights from major labelsIn a recent report for Music Tank, Tony Wadsworth challenged the myth that record labels are dinosaurs. At the Great Escape conference in Brighton, the BPI chairman and former CEO of EMI made the case for labels, pointing out that they are now leaner, more diversified and still, by far, the biggest investors in new music."They haven't been displaced by other entrants," he says. "M...

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