{"id":229111,"date":"2025-04-15T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=229111"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:06:04","slug":"ruth-barlow-of-aim-and-beggars-group-on-umg-downtown-and-why-regulators-must-act-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/ruth-barlow-of-aim-and-beggars-group-on-umg-downtown-and-why-regulators-must-act-before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Barlow of AIM and Beggars Group on UMG, Downtown and why she believes &#8216;regulators must act&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"MBW Views is a series of op\/eds from eminent music industry people\u2026 with something to say. The fol<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This MBW op\/ed comes from Ruth Barlow, Chair of the UK&#8217;s AIM, and Director of Live Licensing at Beggars Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130621],"class_list":["post-229111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}