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...Beyoncé, who is signed with Universal’s rival Sony, seems to have benefited from the stand-off....
...Sony’s publishing arm has administered West’s music for years....
...After buying a 50 per cent stake in Houston’s estate in 2019, Primary Wave has been working to boost the income generated by the late singer’s music through branding and entertainment deals....
...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...
...Sony, which is now more famous for its entertainment business and PlayStation games than the Walkman portable music player, is ranked third while semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron is fifth....
...We think of companies like Toyota, of course, in the auto sector, you think of SoftBank in tech and Sony obviously in entertainment....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...But with its foray into electric vehicles, Sony is actually turning to the same playbook that it used to drive the turnround of its sprawling businesses ranging from films, music and games to camera sensors...
...days after Roe v....
...Chien Li-Ying is head of development at DaMou Entertainment....
...Stephanie Burns General counsel, Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) Stephanie Burns joined PlayStation, Sony’s gaming division, from Amazon having previously worked for ticket reseller StubHub...
...Sony said: “Sony Music Entertainment welcomes the CMA’s provisional determination that its acquisition of AWAL raises no competition concerns and, in doing so, its recognition of the competitive and dynamic...
...The big question for Sony — now pre-eminent as the world’s all-in entertainment conglomerate — is whether that leaves it stronger or weaker....
...During the pandemic, Sony Music Entertainment used Unreal Engine to recreate the Sony Hall concert venue in New York for live online performances....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony’s gaming division, declined to comment. Square Enix, Capcom and Nintendo declined to comment....
...Gaming is the world’s favourite form of entertainment, eclipsing revenue in music, film and TV....
...Still buffering Sony’s strategy as an entertainment “arms dealer” has helped it scrape by as cost-conscious households turn on Netflix and other subscription services....
...Two months later, Sony Music launched another fund of the same size to support social justice and anti-racist initiatives....
...One music industry executive said: “Sony were very strategic to get this out before the DCMS paper hits.”...
...Sony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin’ Else, the biggest independent producer of audio programmes in the UK, as the record label accelerates its push into the fast-growing global podcast market....
...According to Kwon, “the Japanese had the right idea when Sony bought into Hollywood. Their misfortune is that they peaked too early....
...Spotify’s four largest suppliers — Universal Music, Sony and Warner plus indie coalition Merlin — when combined make up about 80 per cent of its total streams, making their participation significant....
...It would become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue after Sony and China’s Tencent....
...Yet the storied Hollywood studios — Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, Disney and Sony — have held on to their legendary studio lots, where classics such as Casablanca and The Sound of Music were filmed....
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