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Meta shakes up music industry with new revenue sharing deal

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has unveiled a new monetization feature that seeks to share revenue between music artists and content creators on the social media platform. 

Music Revenue Sharing is designed to make it easier for creators to monetize videos even when using licensed music, with Meta championing it as “the first of its kind within the music industry,” helping the site’s content creators “access more popular music, deepening relationships with their fans.”

What is the metaverse and why everybody talks about it?

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If you’ve been following virtual reality news lately, you’ll have likely heard mention of something called ‘the metaverse’. Where has this new word come from, and what is the metaverse?. The metaverse is the term for a collection of virtual worlds. Think of the metaverse as the universe for virtual worlds. But what are these virtual worlds? Virtual worlds exist in virtual and augmented reality apps and games, where everything happens virtually. For example...