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...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...
...Today, about 60 per cent of BMG’s revenues come from publishing existing music....
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...Bertelsmann sold its old music publishing business to Universal Music in 2006 for €1.63bn and then started from scratch two years later under Masuch....
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...In the past three years, it has signed more than $5bn worth of deals, including buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and a proposed $1.2bn acquisition of AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll....
...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....
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...A timeless catalogue is the ultimate source of value in the modern music industry — Pink Floyd is negotiating the sale of its own, after deals including the sale of Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue to Sony...
...Springsteen last month agreed to sell his catalogue to Sony Music for a reported $550m....
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...The music industry has staged a dramatic comeback in the past five years since streaming services began funnelling billions of dollars to its biggest companies — Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music...
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