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...Universal, which controls a third of the world’s music, last month stopped licensing its music to TikTok after a year of tense negotiations....
...Sony’s publishing arm has administered West’s music for years....
...After buying a 50 per cent stake in Houston’s estate in 2019, Primary Wave has been working to boost the income generated by the late singer’s music through branding and entertainment deals....
...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...
...Sony, which is now more famous for its entertainment business and PlayStation games than the Walkman portable music player, is ranked third while semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron is fifth....
...We think of companies like Toyota, of course, in the auto sector, you think of SoftBank in tech and Sony obviously in entertainment....
...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...
...Honda is quite late to the game and critics say Sony’s effort could be a costly distraction at a pivotal moment when it is on the verge of becoming a fully integrated entertainment company....
...Music and Google, as well as shops and restaurants....
...Sony said: “Sony Music Entertainment welcomes the CMA’s provisional determination that its acquisition of AWAL raises no competition concerns and, in doing so, its recognition of the competitive and dynamic...
...The big question for Sony — now pre-eminent as the world’s all-in entertainment conglomerate — is whether that leaves it stronger or weaker....
...During the pandemic, Sony Music Entertainment used Unreal Engine to recreate the Sony Hall concert venue in New York for live online performances....
...She served as the first woman on the boards of Sony, Bridgestone and Mitsubishi Corporation Marina Silva Environment minister by Michelle Bachelet The world is facing a triple crisis of climate change...
...In 2009, the Londoner was picked as a left-field choice to lead Epic Records in Los Angeles, a division of Sony Music. Her stint as president was a rocky experience, lasting less than two years....
...Stephanie Burns General counsel, Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) Stephanie Burns joined PlayStation, Sony’s gaming division, from Amazon having previously worked for ticket reseller StubHub...
...For all its globalisation, Sony remains a Japanese corporation at a time when global investors are either frustrated or dismissive of the profit and value-creating powers of managements in the country....
...Gaming is the world’s favourite form of entertainment, eclipsing revenue in music, film and TV....
...Sony Music, led by British executive Rob Stringer, incorporates a large number of labels including Epic, Columbia and RCA....
...Two months later, Sony Music launched another fund of the same size to support social justice and anti-racist initiatives....
...Sony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin’ Else, the biggest independent producer of audio programmes in the UK, as the record label accelerates its push into the fast-growing global podcast market....
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...Still buffering Sony’s strategy as an entertainment “arms dealer” has helped it scrape by as cost-conscious households turn on Netflix and other subscription services....
...Spotify’s four largest suppliers — Universal Music, Sony and Warner plus indie coalition Merlin — when combined make up about 80 per cent of its total streams, making their participation significant....
...Underlining the Korean music industry’s global ambitions, Hybe Corporation — formally known as Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind BTS — in April completed a $1bn merger with Ithaca Holdings, an American...
...This potential gaming colossus is a universe away from the Activision of 1979, a start-up launched by former Atari programmers and music executive Jim Levy....
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