Over 1,000 filmmakers, actors and industry professionals — including Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Stewart and Mark Ruffalo — have signed an...
SOCAN's key figures for 2025 (Source: SOCAN) Canadian rights society SOCAN has collected CA$587.1 million (€361.77m) in 2025, a 5% increase over 2024, and distributed CA$512m...
US independent distributor Secretly Distribution, part of Secretly Group, has acquired data and analytics company Babel Ops. The agreement, the terms of which were not disclosed,...
Independent music company Seeker Music has acquired the recordings and publishing catalogues of ‘80s synthpop group Nu Shooz, in an agreement with the band's John Smith...
Warner Music Central Europe and dance and electronic music label Spinnin’ Records are launching Spinnin’ Records Germany, a new Berlin-based label dedicated to the signing of...
Music publishing company Dynamite Songs has appointed Claudia Namukasa as Catalogue Manager and Charlotte Hancock as Rights Acquisition Manager. The two appointments expand "the company’s rights...
Independent music publishing company peermusic has signed songwriter and recording artist Eyelar Mirzazadeh, professionally known as Eyelar, to a multi-faceted, go-forward worldwide publishing deal. Through the...
Brazilian rights society UBC (Brazilian Union of Composers) has joined the Virtual Recording Database (VRDB) platform developed by SCAPR, the Societies’ Council for the Collective Management...
The French Senate has unanimously adopted in plenary session on April 8 the bill proposing to amend the country's Code of Intellectual Property by introducing a...
Universal Music Group has confirmed that its Board of Directors has received "an unsolicited and non-binding proposal" from Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. to acquire the...
