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Main Stories — Week 22, 2022
These are the main stories published by Creative Industries News in the previous week.
LEAD STORIES
> SCAPR’s General Assembly agenda dominated by the suspension of Russian member VOIS, data projects, remuneration of creators and WIPO collaboration
> The USA’s Copyright Claims Board will start accepting claims on June 16, 2022
> Japan plans to facilitate the use of works whose rights holders are hard to identify
> Canada’s advocacy group Digital First Canada under fire for ‘conflict of interest’
> Mariah Carey sued over ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ by someone who wrote a song titled ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’
> Toots Hibbert’s estate loses cases in Jamaican court about the ownership of recordings from the Droop Lion project
> CISAC’s GA elects new Board and re-admits Turkish societies MESAM and MSG
> SoundExchange unveils new resources for its members, publishers and DSPs
> Feed Media Group inks licensing deal with Songtrust
> Gracenote launches its Streaming Channels Data service to monitor online TV offers
> Virgin Music Label & Artist Services launches in Africa with over 15,000 titles
> Dapper Labs achieves integration with RCRDSHP to provide access to digital collectibles to 2 million users
BRIEF NEWS
– Turkey opens discussion with Google about the use and remuneration of news content
– Germany’s Federal Court of Justice holds YouTube liable for content uploads
– US Copyright Office sued for declining to register a work created with AI
– AIMP has announced the full line-up of the Global Music Publishing Summit
– IMPF is launching an annual music business conference and writing camp
DEALS
– Take That member Mark Owen has signed a wide-ranging global deal with BMG
– Primary Wave Music to acquire the music publishing catalogue of The Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas
– Angry Mob Music Group has inked a worldwide administration deal with Just A Gent
– peermusic has signed Luis Enrique to an exclusive worldwide publishing administration deal
– Warner Chappell Music has extended its worldwide publishing deal with songwriter Jessi Alexander
– Warner Music Poland has taken a minority stake in concert and festival promoter BIG Idea
IN THE NEWS
– Audio Up has appointed Kate London as its new Head of Music Legal & Business Affairs
– Warner Music Nashville Chairman and CEO John Esposito will be stepping down at the end of 2022
– Juan Paz has been appointed as Apple Music‘s new Global Head of Latin Music Business
– The General Assembly of UNAC has elected its new board and renewed composer Laurent Juillet as its President
– Spinnin Records has restructured its marketing department under the leadership of Susanne Hazendonk
– Nobuyuki Idei, the former Japanese Chief Executive of SonyGroup Corp between 1995 and 2005, has died at the age of 84
– Universal Music Greater China (UMGC) has appointed Carol Ding as SVP & Head of Digital and Commercial
INTERVIEWS
In case you missed it, Creative Industries News published recent Q&As with:
– Bruno Guez (Revelator)
– Andrea C Martin (PRS for Music)
– Cécile Rap-Veber (SACEM)
– Molly Neuman (Songtrust)
– Jordi Puy (Unison)
– Olivier Chastan (Iconoclast)
– Ken Umezaki (Verifi)
– Spek (PopArabia)
Collective Management Organisations
Columbia’s SAYCO teams with BMAT for VoD royalties’ processing and distribution
Nettwerk Music Group’s management plans buyout from existing investors supported by $300m from Create Music Group
BMG signs global recording partnership with digital-first label Sketch Music
LabelWorx launches a publishing division offering a Single Song Assignment model
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 Organisations3 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’