By Emmanuel Legrand As a preamble to the hearings of the CEOs of the three British major record companies by House of Commons' Digital, Culture, Media...
By Emmanuel Legrand Bertelsmann-owned music company BMG has picked Google Cloud to build "a scalable, global infrastructure" and manage the exponential increase in the data flow...
British company Blue Raincoat Music Publishing, in conjunction with Reservoir, have signed a global publishing deal with the estate of Nick Drake to represent the artist's...
USA Andrei Iancu has resigned from his position of Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He was appointed to the job by President...
This is part 2 of the interview of Jeremy Sirota, CEO of Merlin, the licensing company for the independent music sector, with Emmanuel Legrand. What's the...
Songwriters, music publishers and the two main US performance rights societies ASCAP and BMI reacted with disappointment to the disclosure that the US Department of Justice...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), which has launched on January 1, 2021 and is tasked with licensing and collecting mechanical rights for the...
When Merlin started 12 years ago, it was a small club of mostly European labels executives who had decided to aggregate their individual catalogues to achieve...
By Emmanuel Legrand Amazon has been accused of ebooks price fixing by colluding with the leading publishers in a class-action lawsuit filed in US District Court...
By Emmanuel Legrand A new company, Exceleration Music, has launched with the ambition to "enhance the future" of independent labels and artists and "to offer personalised...
