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Access Copyright President and CEO Roanie Levy is leaving the Canadian organisation

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A drastic restructuring process at Canada's licensing agency Access Copyright will see the departure of President and CEO Roanie Levy, who has been with the organisation for the past 20 years, with the lasy 10 years as its leader.

The announcement from the board of Access Copyright follows the disclosure in July that the organisation was going through financial difficulties linked to the consequence of Canada's copyright law provisions on fair dealing, which made it more difficult to collec...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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Indie labels and performers’ organisations call for the EU to find a legislative solution to recording’s performance rights payments

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November 28, 2023

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European performer's organisations and independent labels have joined forces to ask the European Union to "come up urgently" with a legislative solution to address the issue of reciprocity in the payment of performance rights on sound recordings (or neighbouring rights).

The move was triggered by a 2020 decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in what is known as the "RAAP case". The CJEU ruled that rights organisations collecting neighbouring rights could not discrimi...

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Investors led by New Mountain Capital acquire US rights society BMI

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November 21, 2023

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Investment firm New Mountain Capital is leading a group of investors to acquire US rights society Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, "subject to approval by BMI shareholders and customary regulatory approvals." New Mountain said it will acquire the company from current BMI's shareholders who own BMI today — BMI was created in 1939 by a group of broadcasters. As part of New Mountain’s investmen...

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PRS for Music extends partnership with Oracle to provide database cloud services

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November 15, 2023

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PRS for Music has extended its partnership with Oracle as the lead provider of cloud services for the British rights society's royalty payment database.

In 2019, PRS for Music began a two-year transformation programme to migrate its two physical data centers onto Oracle hosted multi domain cloud infrastructure, using Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The migration was completed in 2021.

PRS for Music said the extension of the partnership with Oracle ...

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