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,...
Guillaume Damerval, the Managing Director of France's neighbouring rights society SPEDIDAM, has announced that he will step down from his position, effective immediately, after ten years...
Independent music publishing and rights management company Kobalt has started a strategic partnership with Udio, the AI-powered music creation platform, which includes the licensing of Kobalt's...
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...
