By Emmanuel Legrand In a joint letter to the chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the...
By Emmanuel Legrand China's music and entertainment company Tencent Music Entertainment Group has renewed its licensing deal with Universal Music Group. Tencent, which owns 10% of...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has launched the Data Quality Initiative (DQI), which will provide a streamlined way for music publishers, administrators...
By Emmanuel Legrand US labels' trade body the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has designated neighbouring rights society SoundExchange as the authoritative source of International...
By Emmanuel Legrand Usage of video on Facebook has experienced significant growth in 2019, with 279 million more videos uploaded than in 2018 (a 28% increase...
By Emmanuel Legrand The report card from the US recorded music industry during the first half of 2020 remained positive despite the Covid-19 pandemic: audio streams...
By Emmanuel Legrand US independent music company Concord has closed on a $600 million term loan B debt offering. The offering, which was placed with 90...
By Emmanuel Legrand Universal Music Group weathered the pandemic crisis rather well, with revenues for the first six months of the year up 3.5% to EUR3.459...
By Emmanuel Legrand Getting the metadata right has become priority number one for the rights management community. In the music sector, ISRCs (recordings) and ISWCs (compositions)...
By Emmanuel Legrand The British government's decision to allocate ?1.57 billion to the music sector has been widely praised by representatives from the music community. Oliver...
