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...Since taking charge of Sony/ATV over a decade ago he has built it from the fourth-largest to the top music publisher in the world, striking deals such as buying out the estate of Michael Jackson to expand...
...Deals have ranged from small family-owned assets to the $750m that Sony paid the estate of Michael Jackson to buy out the Sony/ATV joint venture....
...Ms Gerson signed her as a songwriter to Sony/ATV in 2008, where she wrote for other artists before putting out her first smash hit album, as Lady Gaga....
.../ATV, the sector’s biggest publisher....
...SoundCloud has struck a European licensing deal with Sony/ATV, the music publishing group, as the Berlin-based digital streaming service beefs up its library to compete against Spotify and Apple Music....
...as Sony/ATV....
...Sony/ATV represents 3m songs ranging from the Motown catalogue to hits by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, and musicals such as Singin’ in the Rain....
...Today's sale of the Jackson estate's half of music publishing group Sony/ATV for $750m confirms the star's little-known business savvy....
...Sony/ATV, which also manages works represented by EMI Music Publishing, recently began a “buy-sell” process after a clause was triggered in a contract between Sony and the Jackson family....
...Pharrell Williams’s “Happy”, the biggest selling song of 2014 — and published by Sony/ATV — is a case in point, he says....
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...The deal will help the music publisher accelerate its investments in technology and challenge rivals such as Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford in The Rise of the Robots, the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as...
...the likes of Sony ATV, Universal Music Publishing and Warner Chappell....
...Sony ATV, the publishing market leader that negotiated a 5 per cent rate from Pandora, also hinted that it was close to a deal....
...After the deal closed, he ran Sony ATV’s international publishing business, helping oversee the integration under Marty Bandier, Sony ATV chief executive....
...from Sony ATV, Sony’s music publishing joint venture with the estate of Michael Jackson....
...Universal Music has applied for regulatory approval to acquire EMI’s recorded music business for $1.9bn, and a Sony consortium is looking to acquire EMI Music Publishing for $2.2bn....
...BMG did suffer a blow this year, when it was outbid by Sony ATV for the music-publishing business of the now defunct UK record company EMI. “EMI would have been nice to have,” says Mr Masuch....
...Much of the focus has been on Mr Bandier, the former EMI Music Publishing CEO who runs Sony ATV, the Japanese electronics group’s publishing joint venture with Michael Jackson’s estate and remains attached...
...The consortium will keep EMI Music Publishing separate from Sony ATV, but Sony’s publishing venture with Michael Jackson’s estate will administer rights to EMI songs, which include “Somewhere Over The Rainbow...
...Securing EMI Music Publishing should let Sony leapfrog Universal in publishing, a similar strategic coup for Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of the Japanese group, Marty Bandier, chief executive of Sony ATV...
...Second-round bids are due for EMI by early October, with interest expected from industry members including BMG, Len Blavatnik’s Warner Music, Sony ATV, and Vivendi’s Universal Music, as well as several private...
...such as Spotify are reshaping business models....
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