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...German media giant Bertelsmann is interested in doing a deal to dramatically scale up its music business BMG, whose artists include Kylie Minogue and Rita Ora, following a series of setbacks that curbed...
...Sony’s publishing arm has administered West’s music for years....
...“But the fundamentals of the music business haven’t changed,” he added. “For years we were doing this with very few people involved. It was a niche . . . music royalties have always been esoteric.”...
...So I’m glad that she did what she did. Yeah, I think we did still have that conversation....
...One of my books was part of that, you know, of the theft also, but, you know, I’m glad. It probably accounts for some of the hallucinations that that’s been doing....
...And I think we see that as all of our responsibilities as directors and partners in our business, that we should be doing that....
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...Co-pilot. Claer BarrettCo-pilot. I like that....
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...“The way that we operate is that the pieces we commission, we really want to perform them as much as possible and that’s what we do,” including touring and recording them....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] The FT has chosen Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen as Person of the Year. He’s the CEO of Novo Nordisk....
...But actually businesses needed the cold, hard cash, the figures on the table to understand the business reasons for doing it....
...Justin Urquhart-StewartLearning by doing . . . and with a group of chums doing it, we started off as chums anyway, and meeting once a month, having a drink, that actually became really quite successful....
...But the planet’s indigenous people, known as the Fremen, are doing their best to fight back. On their side is the hero Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet....
...Make sure you check back next week for the latest business news. [MUSIC PLAYING] The FT News Briefing is produced by Kasia Broussalian, Sonja Hutson, Fiona Symon and me, Marc Filippino....
...Both businesses did well — better than his foray into the music business, when he founded a recording company and managed a reggae band....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] This week saw a deal at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, which some are hailing as historic....
...And I say with regret because, you know, we are always bemoaning as a nation the dearth of people going into politics with serious experience of business and the outside world....
...I’m just glad, given that we had an economic boom, that, you know, that it did as well as it did....
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