British music industry executive Alexi Cory-Smith, who co-founded with Neelesh Prabhu independent music company Bella Figura, has died at the age of 58. The news was...
British member of Parliament Damian Hinds has introduced a legislation in the House of Commons to "to increase transparency around automated web scraping" by addressing the...
US-based independent music company Exceleration Music in partnership with Tokyo-based rights administrator and distributor NexTone have acquired the recording and publishing catalog of Ryuichi Sakamoto directly...
Independent music company Reservoir Media has signed singer-songwriter Jarrett Doherty, the frontman of alt-pop/rock duo Jady, to a worldwide publishing agreement, in a deal that includes...
Digital music licensing society for the independent sector Merlin has appointed Harmen Hemminga as Vice President, Business Development. Hemminga joins Merlin from Downtown Music, where he...
Northern Ireland rock band Snow Patrol have signed a new global recording agreement with BMG, in a deal that covers the release of future studio recordings....
British neighbouring rights society PPL has distributed £81.6 million (€94.6m) to over 140,000 performers and recording rights holders in Q2 2026. This distribution primarily included payments...
Björn Ulvaeus, co-founder of Swedish band ABBA and President of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), will deliver a keynote at the...
Sony Music Publishing Nashville, in partnership with Nashville-based music company Ace High Music, have signed songwriter, producer and artist Chris Sligh to a global publishing deal....
The Board of Directors of International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP), the global trade body representing the music publishing industry, has elected Reservoir Media President &...
