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...Every song has two sets of copyrights: one for the recording, and one for the “publishing”, meaning the writing and composition....
...Two years ago Vivendi split its most valuable business, Universal Music Group, via a listing....
...Sony’s publishing arm has administered West’s music for years....
...“At this point, the majority of heavy lifting (related to restructuring charges etc) has been completed,” said Bank of America analyst Jessica Ehrlich....
...Separately, Morgan Stanley’s credit arm last month committed $700mn to buy song copyrights with music company Kobalt....
...EU antitrust regulators fined Apple €1.8bn earlier this month over “steering” policies that prevent rival music streaming apps such as Spotify from directing customers outside of its App Store to make payments...
...The mood music could shift a little after the COP28 climate summit, which is starting tomorrow in Dubai....
...On behalf of 17 music publishers including Sony Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group, the National Music Publishers’ Association filed a suit in the federal district court of Nashville alleging...
...total number of claims to date is still dwarfed by the 11,000 brought under the ASA’s predecessor, the Child Victims Act, which saw landmark suits brought against the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts of America...
...The ‘nuclear option’ Universal’s showdown with TikTok is testing who has the most power in today’s music economy, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...Amid New Orleans festivities, rainmakers wonder if the party is over for Delaware Delaware, Inc. may be the enterprise now under the most intense activist threat....
...Having been turned down for a box at the exclusive Academy of Music, assertive arriviste Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) decides to lead a campaign to turn the upstart Met into the place to see and be seen....
...Bo knows football … ”) while showing the athlete’s sense of humour by ending on a line from the music legend: “Bo, you don’t know Diddley”....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Claer Barrett What would you trade for the chance of earning a multimillion pound bonus?...
...“I believe he has made that turn away from bragging and towards bashing — he’s saying Trump is weak, soft, dumb and unpatriotic — that’s music to my ears.”...
...Others, like the iPod and the internet, fundamentally changed the way we consume music and information. If it is to be the latter, we’re still only in the first stirrings of the revolution....
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..., Can to Tangerine Dream — whose sound changed modern music....
...Money aside, the cultural value of blackness is immeasurable when you assess the impact made across music, fashion, film and literature, among other things....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...Growing up in a higher-income family (which is easier when there are two sources of it) raises one’s chances of participating in sport, music or art....
...Hacking Inc....
...But the driving force behind the earnings bulge this week is the arrival en masse of corporate America, and none more notable than the Big Tech crowd, Alphabet, Amazon.com, Meta and Microsoft....
...Book publishing revenues hit a new high of $29.3bn that year, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP)....
...She addressed the use of algorithms by saying that “all publishing requires organisation” and that these “features [are] inherent in all publishing”....
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