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...A spokesperson said that deal expired earlier this year but as part of the contract it will carry on administering the songs — and collecting a fee for doing so — “for a period of time”....
...Blackstone offered $205mn, said one of these people. Separately, Morgan Stanley’s credit arm last month committed $700mn to buy song copyrights with music company Kobalt....
...Greenberg lawyers are defending West and his entities in a civil suit brought by Ultra International Music Publishing in the southern district of New York....
...pop music forever, as told through this lively account of key moments personalities in entertainment history....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Michela Tindera As we heard at the beginning of the episode, Tom found this hive of activity at the port in Fujairah....
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...[MUSIC PLAYING] Algy Hall So a quality share essentially is a company which can invest money back into its own business and make very good money from doing so....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more on all of these stories at FT.com. This has been your daily FT News Briefing. Make sure you check back tomorrow for the latest business news. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...If people are living their best lives, they’re doing it to a soundtrack of great songs....
...[PARAMORE’s ‘MISERY BUSINESS’ PLAYING] This is “Misery Business,” by Paramore. It came out the year I graduated high school in 2007. This genre was bound to come back eventually....
...Sony agreed in February 2021 to buy AWAL, whose artists include Jungle and Little Simz, from Kobalt Music Group, a rights management and publishing group, triggering an investigation by the CMA....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah RaptopoulosI think of the soundsuits as kind of the opposite of an invisibility cloak....
...Of course, FT readers following the story closely know that prosecutors allege that much of the business O’Sullivan brought in wasn’t real at all....
...is part of the ethical imperative for doing it....
...Movies and adverts have long given older songs such as “Dreams” the chance of a fresh lease of life, generating years of new royalty revenues for the holders of their publishing rights....
...A reminder that next weekend we will be publishing on Fridays. I hope you enjoy the extra day and that we are doing a bonus four-part series starting this Wednesday all about travel....
...In recent years specialist funds had been paying three to four times the historic value for music publishing assets....
...And then suddenly Alice’s rights are restored and the business sort of continued to profit off of her work long after the Holocaust was over. A Jewish woman’s work. I guess I’m....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Google has just overhauled a crucial piece of technology it’s been developing as part of its plan to replace cookies....
...Music group Kobalt first established the fund in 2010 at a time when there was little interest in publishing rights as an asset class....
...Now JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America have started publishing research on digital assets and their business ecosystem. In Europe, so have Deutsche Bank and Mediobanca....
...He sold his house and his “army of suits” and took himself off to South America and Asia....
...Because it is a private business, the company’s finances are not publicly available....
...And we’re sort of scratching our head going, “What?” This is a big public company. You know, we’re publishing evidence of fraud. And at this stage, the numbers are quite small....
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