Is it time to #ownourvenues?

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK Music Venue Trust's launch of a new organisation called Music Venue Properties - which is a charitable community benefit society set up to buy the freeholds of properties that currently house grassroots music venues - and its #ownourvenues campaign, plus Sony Music's latest announcement regarding paying royalties to unrecouped artists.

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Music Venue Trust launches new initiative to buy freeholds of grassroots venues
• Sony Music expands commitment to pay through royalties to unrecouped heritage artists

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