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...Since December, the company has reached agreements with Universal Music, the largest record label, Sony/ATV, the biggest publisher, and several other groups....
...Deals so far have ranged from small family-owned assets to the $2.3bn that Sony is paying to increase its stake in EMI, a publisher with more than 2m songs....
...“I’d never even heard of music publishing,” she says. It was the first step in a three-decade career in music publishing, which handles the songwriting behind the recordings heard on albums....
...Now chief executive of Sony/ATV, the world’s largest music publishing group, he recalls how he landed a job at a legal firm after graduating from law school....
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...Sony ATV has an interest in the six songs, and keeps a percentage of the income they generate. Leonard Pincus will retain an undisclosed stake in the rights after the transaction....
...Bertelsmann’s reformed BMG Music Publishing venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts now vies with Sony ATV for fourth place in publishing, however, and Ms Smith says its recent acquisitions of independent publishers...
...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...
...They also named Permira, the UK buy-out house, and Sony ATV, the publishing joint venture between Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson, as among those showing active interest....
...Branca is uniquely familiar with Mr Jackson’s assets, having played a critical role in building his estate through the acquisition and development of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the Mijac publishing catalogue...
...“Michael was a smart businessman,” said Martin Bandier, chairman & chief executive of Sony/ATV, Jackson’s music publishing joint venture with Sony....
...“He’d overspent so badly at that point that he had gotten a number of advances [against future sales] from Sony,” his partner in the Sony ATV music publishing venture which owns most of the Beatles’ biggest...
...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....
...At Sony/ATV, he saw a publishing business with room to grow. Sony sweetened the forthcoming deal by offering equity, making him a partner as opposed to a salaried employee....
...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 Bandier said he could not comment on EMI for legal reasons, but added: “Sony ATV is in the music publishing business and while I’m there, we’d look at anything that made economic sense.”...
...In turn, the singer would sell Sony an option to purchase half of his 50 per cent stake in the Sony/ATV music publishing catalogue....
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