Creative Industries
Main Stories — Week 17, 2022
LEAD STORIES
> Court of Justice of the EU rules Article 17 is compatible with the Charter of Rights
>EU’s creative sector applauds the decision from the CJEU to dismiss Poland’s action against Article 17 of the Copyright Directive
> USPTO’s 2022 Special 301 Report identifies recent threats to IP rights
> Re:Sound urges Canadian government to make changes to the Copyright Act
> Grammys on the Hill brought together entertainment and politics in the US capital for the first time in three years
> NetEase Cloud Music sued Tencent Music Entertainment for ‘unfair competition’
> DVP, SACEM and CFC sign cooperation agreement on news neighbouring right
> Believe renews licensing deals with China’s streaming platforms Tencent Music Entertainment and NetEase Cloud Music
> SACEM/SDRM extend partnership with Muserk to manage digital mechanical rights in the USA in a deal that includes The MLC
> TuneCore has paid $2.5 billion to indie artists since it launched in 2006
> The Weeknd expands business partnership with Universal Music Group
> Reliance, Viacom18 and Bodhi Tree Systems to launch a video streaming platform in India
> South Korea’s copyright marketplace Musicow raises $79m from Stic Investment
> Peacock will count 64.3m US viewers at the end of 2022
> Spotify starts the year with 182 million premium subscribers and 422 million MAUs
BRIEF NEWS
– The Mechanical Licensing Collective is accepting suggestions for Publisher candidates to sit on its Board of Directors
– 7digital secured a two-year contract “worth at least £1 million”
– Amazon Prime Video will double its investment in Prime Video India over the next five years
– ANote Music is planning to list 5% of the Sundance Music jazz catalogue
– Vivendi‘s Q1 revenues were up 7.9% to €2.38 billion
– BandLab has raised another $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Vulcan Capital
– Amazon-owned video streaming service IMDb TV as re-branded as Freevee
– ByteDance has launched the beta version of a music streaming platform named Qishui Yinyue
– Google parent Alphabet reported first-quarter sales rose to $68.01 billion, up 23% from last year
– Amazon posted net sales up 7% to $116.4 billion in the first quarter of 2022
– Apple posted revenues of $92.27 billion in Q1 2022, up 8.6% year-on-year
– Facebook‘s parent company Meta has increased its daily active users by 4% to 1.96 billion during the first quarter of 2022
DEALS
– The Weeknd expands business partnership with Universal Music Group
– BMG has acquired a 50% stake in the song interests of Primal Scream
– Sony Music Publishing Nashville has signed singer-songwriter Madeline Edwards to a worldwide publishing agreement
– FUGA has signed a global distribution and marketing services deal with Swedish independent label YEAR0001
– CCS Rights Management has signed a worldwide neighbouring rights deal with Arrested Youth
– Sony Music Publishing UK has signed singer-songwriter Kal Lavelle to a worldwide publishing agreement
IN THE NEWS
– Lynn Gonzalez has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Head of Business Affairs & Business Development, at Def Jam Recordings
– Targa Sahyoun and Nick Steinhardt have been named Senior Vice Presidents of Creative for Capitol Records
– Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) has announced a series of promotions and hires
– Members of IMPF, the Independent Music Publishers International Forum, have elected their new Executive Board
– Ebba Guhnby has joined B2B distribution company FUGA as Business Development Manager for the Nordic region
– Stephen Lotinga, CEO of the UK’s Publishers Association since 2016, will be leaving the organisation later this year
– Spotify has promoted Safiya Lambie-Knight to the position of Head of Music for the UK and Ireland
– JioSaavn has appointed former Amazon Music India Director Sahas Malhotra as its new CEO
– ByteDance has appointed Julie Gao as its new Chief Financial Officer
– Jacqui Louez-Schoorl is stepping down as CEO of Jaxsta to be replaced by Beth Appleton
INTERVIEWS
In case you missed it, Creative Industries News published recent Q&As with:
– Andrea C Martin (PRS for Music)
– Cécile Rap-Veber (SACEM)
– Molly Neuman (Songtrust)
– Jordi Puy (Unison)
– Olivier Chastan (Iconoclast)
– Ken Umezaki (Verifi)
– Spek (PopArabia)
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peermusic promotes Jody Farber to Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Bill Gorjance
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peermusic promotes Jody Farber to Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Bill Gorjance
Mike Easterlin named Managing Director of ONErpm’s Nashville division
The MLC plans webinars to show members how to use tools to manage song data
Six takeaways from The MLC’s first annual report for 2021: distributions, membership, matching rates, processed works, historical unmatched works and expenditures
Olivier Chastan (Iconoclast): ‘Name, image and likeness will be as important as music rights in the future’
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Collective Management Organisations3 years agoThe MLC plans webinars to show members how to use tools to manage song data
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Collective Management Organisations4 years agoSix takeaways from The MLC’s first annual report for 2021: distributions, membership, matching rates, processed works, historical unmatched works and expenditures
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Interview4 years agoOlivier Chastan (Iconoclast): ‘Name, image and likeness will be as important as music rights in the future’
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Collective Management Organisations4 years agoCécile Rap-Veber (SACEM): ‘We are a solutions provider to create value, a tech company, and we are less and less seen as some sort of cultural institution’