Hints and tips:
...The pennies add up: Sony/ATV makes revenue of about $600m annually; Mr Bandier said it was on track for its “best financial year yet”....
...negotiations with music companies, the social media group has signed a spate of licensing deals in the past three months, including agreements with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest label, and Sony/ATV...
...A single hit song can have hundreds of thousands of separate income streams. “Kobalt provides the pipes and technology for the rapid, honest and transparent processing of payments,” Mr Maris said....
...Some larger publishers such as Sony ATV had held back from the Bug auction for fear of spending their firepower before second round bids are due for EMI, which are expected to value the UK music company...
...A sale of Warner-Chappell, which administers the rights to songs by artists including Led Zeppelin, Madonna and Katy Perry, could clear Warner’s $1.51bn debt load and allow Warner to buy all of EMI, which...
...Mr Branca is credited with bringing a catalogue of more than 250 Beatles songs to Mr Jackson’s attention, and helping win over the seller, Robert Holmes a Court, in the 1984 auction....
...When Jackson bid in 1985 for the rights to 259 Beatles songs, Australian entrepreneur Robert Holmes à Court, the seller, favoured his bid against an identical offer when the singer flew to Perth for a private...
...Through Sony ATV, a 50-50 joint venture with Sony, Jackson controls the rights to the Beatles catalogue as well as songs from artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and Lady Gaga....
...As half-owner of Sony/ATV, Mr Jackson holds broad sway over a catalogue that boasts roughly half a million songs, including more than 200 Beatles classics....
...Martin Bandier, chief executive of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which controls more than 200 Beatles copyrights, said the exposure on American Idol had yielded a number of inquiries, including from mobile...
...Mr Jackson purchased the ATV catalogue 21 years ago for $47.5m. He later partnered with Sony in 1995 in an effort to raise cash....
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