By Emmanuel Legrand New York-based music company Primary Wave Music has inked a "strategic relationship" with funds managed by asset management firm Oaktree Capital Management, with...
Canadian music rights management company Kilometre Music Group, in partnership with Barometer Capital Management, have acquired 50% of the rights to the 180-song strong catalogue of...
By Emmanuel Legrand The music publishing market in the US posted revenues of $4.076billion in 2020, a 9.6% increase over 2019. The figure was disclosed by...
Independent music company Reservoir has acquired over 6,000 master recordings from New York-based indie hip hop label Tommy Boy Music, in a transaction valued at around...
French rights society SACEM and the Union of Publishers of Magazines (SEMP), which regroups over 80 news publishing companies in France, have signed what they described...
Luxembourg-based music royalties marketplace ANote Music has signed an agreement with Italian duo Zero Assoluto allowing investors to own a share in their repertoire. Zero Assoluto...
Netflix has signed a new long-term exclusive agreement with BMG for the management and administration of the video streaming service’s music publishing rights worldwide, outside the...
Eric Baptiste, the former CEO of Canadian rights society SOCAN, is launching QwantumRights Solutions, a new company that has the ambition of “helping copyright managers achieve...
The French Commission for the remuneration from private copying – which regroups consumers who are beneficiaries of the right to copy, manufacturers, importers and distributors of...
Music publishers have been strongly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery will take a few years before their business gets back to pre-pandemic levels. Such...
