TuneCore a "cash-flow" crisis in 2012. Price has sued TuneCore for severance compensation and has alleged that the company may have been insolvent, an accusation that the company appears to dispute. Tunecore was acquired by Denis Ladegaillerie's Believe Digital in April 2015. The acquisition opened up artists' access to Believe Digital’s wider distribution network and label services. Both of the companies remained operationally separate, while jointly claiming to represent of 25 to 30 percent of the new music uploaded to iTunes each day. After the acquisition, TuneCore and Believe used their newly increased leverage in negotiations with digital services including Spotify
Community and Public Sector Union sector employees and university general staff, while the PSU Group represents Commonwealth employees, Territory employees, and employees in former Commonwealth entities. These groups reflect the pre-existing eligibility and industrial coverage of the amalgamating organisations. The CPSU has about 160,000 members, approximately 60,000 in the PSU Group and over 100,000 in the State Public Service Federation (SPSF) Group. The CPSU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The SPSF was first registered as a federal union on 30 July 1976. Initially, the SPSF covered a limited range of State public sector employees