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The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions Friday, after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former judge at the ICC and other international courts. Trump has coveted that prize for himself.
“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. “The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.”
The sanctions cut the court off from U.S.-based financial services, technology companies and even using U.S. dollars. They set a six-month timeline for U.S. companies and individuals that have business with the court to wind that business down.
The ICC denounced the step as an attack on the rule of law and the foundations of international order, themes that Rubio had appeared to embrace only two days ago in a speech in front of the Acropolis in Athens.
“It is an attempt to obstruct the course of justice and to prevent the court from doing what it was created to do,” the court said in a statement. “It is an assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order which strikes at the simple principle that no one stands above the law.”
ICC President Tomoko Akane, a citizen of U.S. ally Japan, said the court would “continue to fully discharge its mandate, with independence and impartiality, acting only on the basis of the law and the evidence, for the sake of the countless victims of grave crimes.”
She also appealed to other ICC members for support. “This is not just about defending a single institution, but about safeguarding the international order grounded upon the rule of law.”
Rights groups also denounced the sanctions.
“This existential attack must fail,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, an Amnesty International senior director. “States must take concrete action to resist the imposition of these measures and actively protect the Court.”
The court’s host country of the Netherlands has been preparing for weeks for the move. One possible measure to mitigate sanctions is the EU “blocking statute,” which could be used to protect European court staff by preventing European companies from complying with the U.S. measures. Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen has called the blocking statute the “nuclear option” in countering possible sanctions, but said the Netherlands has been in talks with the European Commission to ensure that if it is necessary it can be quickly enacted.
In a joint statement, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom expressed strong disagreement with the U.S. sanctions.
“We will continue to work together to support the court’s vital work, uphold the rules-based international system, and advance accountability,” the statement said.
“If put into effect, these sanctions will have a significant impact on the court’s work, its dedicated staff and their families. They work every day to bring those accused of the most serious international crimes to justice and to support their victims.”
Rubio said U.S. allies should join in the U.S. actions. “If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC, piece by piece, until Americans are threatened no longer,” he said.
A number of countries have withdrawn from the court this year, including Venezuela and Chad. The South Pacific island nation of Naoero was the most recent to announce it would quit.
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Quell reported from The Hague, Netherlands. Associated Press writer Mike Corder contributed from The Hague.
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Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s Round-up is exclusively supported by BMI, a global leader in performing rights management, dedicated to supporting songwriters, composers and publishers and championing the value of music.
This week, Sony Music revealed it has now asked platforms to remove more than 260,000 AI deepfakes impersonating artists including Harry Styles, Adele, and Michael Jackson.
Meanwhile, Suno is facing an investigation in Italy over its terms of service, as scrutiny of AI music platforms continues to grow.
Elsewhere, the US Copyright Office launched a public inquiry into streaming fraud — a day after Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison over an $8 million AI-song-and-bot scheme.
Also this week, Suno hired Ticketmaster‘s Michael Chua to lead its live music operations, including concert-discovery platform Songkick.
Here are some of the biggest headlines from the past few days…
1. Sony Music has now asked platforms to remove more than 260,000 AI deepfakes imitating artists like Harry Styles, Adele, and Michael Jackson
By the end of September, Sony Music had asked digital platforms to take down more than 260,000 AI-generated tracks impersonating its artists.
That’s almost double the 135,000 tracks it had sought to remove by the end of March, according to the Financial Times, which reported the new figure on Monday (October 5).
To slice the numbers another way: they suggest that, on average, Sony issued over 20,000 AI deepfake takedown requests per month in Q2 and Q3 (April 1 – Sept 30). (MBW)
2. Suno faces investigation in Italy over terms of service
Italy‘s competition authority has opened an investigation into Suno‘s terms of service.
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) said on Tuesday (October 6) that the AI music company’s terms “may be unfair pursuant to Article 33 of the Consumer Code” because they “may create a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations under the contract, to the detriment of consumers.”
The AGCM‘s concerns include price changes, account terminations, US-based arbitration, and a content license that it says requires users to waive their moral rights. (MBW)
3. Music streaming fraud inquiry launched by US Copyright Office
The US Copyright Office (USCO) has launched a public inquiry into music streaming fraud.
The Office published a notice of inquiry in the Federal Register on Wednesday (October 7), seeking information on how streaming fraud is carried out, its economic impact, and its relationship to AI-generated music.
Written comments are due by November 23, with reply comments due by December 21. (MBW)
4. Michael Smith, man behind $8M AI song and bot streaming fraud, sentenced to 18 months in prison
Michael Smith has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a streaming fraud scheme that prosecutors say brought him more than USD $8 million in royalties.
US District Judge John G. Koeltl handed down the sentence in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday (October 6), the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced.
Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. (MBW)
5. Suno hires Ticketmaster’s Michael Chua to lead its live music team, including Songkick
Suno has hired Michael Chua from Ticketmaster as Vice President and General Manager of Suno Live Experiences.
In the role, Chua will lead the AI music company’s live music operations, which include concert discovery platform Songkick.
Suno acquired Songkick from Warner Music Group in November 2025, as part of the licensing agreement that settled WMG’s copyright lawsuit against the company. (MBW)
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Netflix(NFLX -1.77%) plans a restructuring that would cut around 5% of its staff and may be announced as early as next week, Puck reported on Friday. Netflix declined to comment, so for now the cuts are only reported.
But the scale stands out. The streaming giant had around 16,000 full-time employees at the end of 2025, which puts a 5% cut at about 800 jobs. That’d be over the 450 or so jobs Netflix shed across two rounds in 2022, its latest big layoffs.
And the first of those 2022 rounds came just four trading days after the stock’s lowest close in that slump.
Shares trade around $71 as of this writing — about four times the 2022 low, but still 47% under the record close of $133.91 the stock set in June 2025. Does a fresh round of cuts mean what it meant then?
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Spending is growing faster than sales
Netflix’s spending outside content helps explain why management may want a smaller staff.
Showing how fast these costs are climbing, Netflix’s sales and marketing, technology and development, and general and administrative expenses rose a combined 18% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, to around $2.3 billion. In the same three months, revenue grew 13% to $12.6 billion. Technology and development, the line that includes most of the pay for Netflix’s tech workers, jumped 22% by itself. Netflix said the increase came mostly from a $142 million rise in personnel-related costs.
Headcount also kept rising. Netflix finished 2025 with around 2,000 more full-time employees than it did a year before.
The spending gap is opening while revenue growth slows. Netflix’s revenue climbed 18% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2025. Growth then cooled to 16% in 2026’s first quarter and to 13% from April through June. Management’s forecast is for around 12% in the third quarter.
Meanwhile, Netflix is still targeting a 31.5% operating margin for 2026, up from 29.5% in 2025. Shedding around 5% of its staff won’t do much to its content costs, the company’s largest expense. But it might help bring these other costs back toward the rate of revenue growth, and I think that’s where the cuts are most likely aimed.
The 2022 cuts
Netflix has done this before, for almost the same reason.
In April 2022, the streamer reported a drop of 200,000 paid memberships in the first quarter, its first such decline in over a decade. It also forecast a loss of 2 million more in the second quarter, and its first-quarter revenue growth had cooled to 10%. The stock fell 35% the next day.
Shares kept slipping until May 11, 2022, when they closed at around $16.64 on a split-adjusted basis. On May 17, Netflix let around 150 workers go. A second round of about 300 followed on June 23.
“While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth,” a Netflix spokesperson said about the June cuts.
Looking back, the first round came near the bottom. But the stock closed at about $16.75 on June 14, just above its May low, so the layoffs didn’t turn it around by themselves.
The recovery arguably owed more to new revenue. Netflix launched a cheaper ad-supported plan in November 2022 and rolled out charges for account sharing widely in 2023.
Is this 2022 again?
I don’t think so, at least not on the numbers. In 2022, Netflix was losing members and said it would manage to a minimum operating margin of around 19% to 20% as it worked to reaccelerate growth. Today, it’s still growing revenue at a double-digit pace, and its operating margin in the second quarter of 2026 was 33.4%.
Today’s Change
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Current Price
$70.30
Key Data Points
Market Cap
$298BMarket cap calculated using publicly traded shares outstanding only. Does not include unlisted, private, or dual-class non-traded shares. Implied market cap may vary.
Day’s Range
$70.19 – $72.10
52wk Range
$65.08 – $124.86
Volume
29.1M
Avg Vol
37.1M
Gross Margin
49.53%
In other words, this round looks less like a defensive step and more like a company trying to keep profit growth ahead of slowing sales. What’s more, Netflix says its 2026 forecast implies operating income growth of over 20%.
Of course, investors aren’t paying a growth stock price for that.
At roughly $71, the shares trade at about 19 times earnings, using analysts’ average estimate of 2027 profits. It’s a modest price-to-earnings ratio for a business expecting profit growth like that, and I think the price already assumes growth keeps easing.
Still, I’m not seeing this round of cuts as a sign that the stock has bottomed. The 2022 layoffs lined up with the low, but what boosted the shares after that was growth coming back, first in members and then in revenue. Netflix’s revenue growth is still slowing now, and cutting around 800 jobs can help its margin without doing much to speed up sales.
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