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...Developing a financial model for the use of news content to train AI will be extremely difficult, according to publishing leaders....
...(Side note: the bank also made cringey music videos, Alphaville has discovered.)...
...Fonsi’s songbook is the first big acquisition by HarbourView as it enters a frenetic market in which Blackstone, KKR, Pimco and other investors are pouring billions into music, viewing music publishing rights...
...In recent years specialist funds had been paying three to four times the historic value for music publishing assets....
...One thing to start: Tribune Publishing’s board has recommended shareholders back a takeover offer by hedge fund Alden Capital rather than a higher offer from a Baltimore-based hotel magnate who wants to...
...Helen Smith, executive chair of Impala, a lobby group for the music industry that favours the copyright reforms, said Google was engaged in the “blatant manipulation of newspapers”....
...“Once the music stops, there will be carnage. It might take three to five years, but there has to come a point when we come to our senses.”...
...“Shamrock Capital acquires Stargate Publishing catalogue, Reservoir Media acquires Isley Brothers catalogue . . . those all happened within the last six months....
...The company has since branched out into more traditional music operations by signing up song writers and artists to publishing deals....
...Kobalt, the British music publishing start-up, has raised a further $14m as part of a Series D round that values the business at almost $800m....
...It came at a time when the advent of Amazon’s Kindle ereader raised fears that publishing was heading for the same kind of digital disruption that has wreaked havoc on the music industry....
...Breitbart, who died unexpectedly in 2012 aged 43, was not a typical conservative — he once told the FT he enjoyed late 1980s dance music culture — but found himself appalled by Mr Thomas’s treatment by Senate...
...He also allegedly used 1MDB money to pay for Jynwel’s $106.6m stake in EMI Music Publishing as part of a Sony-led consortium....
...The technology companies have realised that, like photo sharing and music apps, news can attract and retain users of their mobile services....
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...Self-publishing has continued to expand, and publishing companies are still waiting to see whether subscription models — which are transforming the music industry — will catch on among readers....
...From How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt, published on June 16, 2015 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright by Stephen Witt, 2015....
...Film and music companies have been in stand-offs with Amazon and Google’s YouTube over pricing, as the two companies join Apple as the dominant online purveyors of books, music and video....
...But he added that it was far from clear that the publishing industry needed a rental option because books can take days or weeks to read and sell to a far smaller audience than popular music tracks....
...music plays and Vaio computers....
..., music – and stars such as Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake – to its repertoire....
...Justo Hidalgo, co-founder at 24symbols, also points to changes in attitudes among the big publishing houses....
...The venture, which is controlled by Vivendi’s Universal Music and Sony Music, will announce on Monday that it has signed a licensing deal with Gema, the German publishing rights collecting society that is...
...Publishing has a way to go before it can rest comfortably. We have watched the traditional film and music industries nearly die. But even they now acknowledge the lessons learnt....
...“We’ve not made much money from Pandora,” a music publishing executive said, noting that Apple had agreed to pay publishers 10 per cent of advertising revenue, at least double the rate they get from Pandora...
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