The UK music collecting society is pursuing Steam, PlayStation has been toying with dynamic pricing and Crikey breakdown Palantir Technologies' Australian Defence contract.

And: Katy Perry lost a trade mark battle with an Australian fashion designer, La Trobe University appointed an AI Pro Vice-Chancellor and the Oversight Board wants Meta to do more to identify AI content.

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WTF now?! #25 – Thursday 5–Wednesday 11 March 2026

This week: app stores, AI acquisitions and antitrust cases, oh my! Plus a peak at Palantir’s military contract, Katy Perry lost a trade mark dispute and La Trobe appointed an AI provost.

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Napster's identity crisis continues: from piracy pioneer to legitimate streamer to... royalty deadbeat? $3.4M lawsuit from SoundExchange suggests they're still figuring out how to handle music properly. 🎵💰

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Here's WTF happened last week:

1️⃣ The Trump administration's second term has been rapidly dismantling agencies like USAID and targeting the EPA but the arts have also been affected.

2️⃣ Spotify keeps adding audiobooks despite the music industry’s concerns bundled subscriptions are pushing down music royalties.
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WTF now?!: Monday 27 January–Sunday 2 February 2025

DeepSeek has Silicon Valley spooked, there is a renewed push for piracy internet filtering in the US and Spotify talks up streaming.

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4️⃣ Spotify thinks it is the saviour of music. Ben Eltham disagrees.
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3/ Spotify’s mechanical rights royalties have decreased dramatically and it is not clear why. Seems that’s another reasoning for Björk to hate on the music streaming platform.
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