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...An ever-louder drumbeat of success had attended her since she signed a publishing deal for songwriting with Sony/ATV at the age of 14, the youngest in the company’s history....
...Sony/ATV, Universal and Kobalt) and Performance Rights Organisations (PROs ie collection agencies such as ASCAP and BMI)....
...Unlike many other big artists, Mr Dylan owned the publishing rights to his music, which was administered outside the US by Sony/ATV Publishing....
...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”....
...Since December, the company has reached agreements with Universal Music, the largest record label, Sony/ATV, the biggest publisher, and several other groups....
...Those still reside with her original publisher Sony/ATV, allowing her to in effect reproduce her back catalogue ad infinitum....
...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....
...Sony/ATV commands the rights to more than 3 million songs by artists including The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Kanye West....
...Spotify’s vast catalogue of 30m songs due to its licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal allows users to access practically any song they want....
...The company struck fresh deals with Vivendi-owned Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, which combined control 80 per cent of the world’s music, to get itself on a sounder financial footing ahead...
.../ATV, the sector’s biggest publisher....
...The decision will “go a long way to fairly compensate our songwriters for the essential contribution they make to streaming's success story,” said Martin Bandier, chief executive of Sony/ATV, the largest...
...He is seeking a “declaratory judgment” that Sony/ATV will confirm his rights to the songs. Sony/ATV called the lawsuit “unnecessary and premature”....
...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....
...The big labels, including Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music , are reaping the benefits as they collect royalties each time a subscriber streams songs from artists such as Drake, Adele and Beyoncé...
...by the US group Sony/ATV....
...Sony and Universal would license their content to YouTube, and they would split advertising sales....
...of songs that Spotify and Apple Music offer, writes Anna Nicolaou in New York....
...Every hour, his songs are streamed more than 500,000 times on the service....
...Sony/ATV represents 3m songs ranging from the Motown catalogue to hits by The Beatles and Taylor Swift....
...as Sony/ATV....
...Sony said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the estate “to obtain full ownership” of 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....
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