Tag: rights

Primary Wave strikes multi-million-dollar music rights deal with Neil Finn of Crowded House

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:55:32 +0000

Deal includes his work with Crowded House, as well as his solo material

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Bella Figura Music acquires RAK Publishing, including hits by Hot Chocolate and Joan Jett; firm has spent $80m+ on music rights to date

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:32:31 +0000

RAK was founded in 1969 by record producer Mickie Most

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Cutting Edge Group secures $500m to fund music rights acquisitions

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:59:11 +0000

Cutting Edge said it has already identified a "circa USD $1.5 billion pipeline" of potential investments

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Having spent over $200m on catalogs to date, South Korea’s Beyond Music eyes Latin Music market with Yandel music rights deal

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:31:12 +0000

Latin Music star Yandel strikes music rights deal with Beyond Music

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Bella Figura Music secures fresh funding to bolster catalog acquisitions

admin — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:18:19 +0000

The music company has acquired rights to hits by Robbie Williams and Human League, among others

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Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiative

admin — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:35:59 +0000

A new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI

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Lewis Capaldi signs with PPL for international neighboring rights collection

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:17:11 +0000

The hitmaking artist was previously signed to Kobalt for worldwide neighboring rights collection

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Billie Eilish, Metro Boomin, HYBE and more tell tech platforms: Stop using AI to ‘infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists’

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:08:40 +0000

More than 200 artists sign open letter calling on music platforms and tech companies to agree to AI pledge

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BeatStars launches ‘Creator Rights Agency’ platform to assist music creators in deal negotiations

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:16:12 +0000

The new tool is described as 'an end-to-end service that allows creators to get data-driven recommendations from experts'

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Non-profit Fairly Trained certifies an AI large language model as free of copyright infringement, in a blow to a key claim of AI firms

admin — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:04:37 +0000

"There is no fundamental reason that large language model developers can’t work in a way that respects creators’ rights"

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Soundful founder and CEO Diaa El All: ‘There is a way to create disruptive technological advances in AI while keeping the integrity of artists’ rights at the forefront.’

admin — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:40:27 +0000

Soundful founder and CEO Diaa El All shares his thoughts around copyright issues related to AI music

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Barcelona appeals court rules that Spanish authors’ society SGAE ‘abused its position’ in the market, in victory for rival UNISON

admin — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:09:29 +0000

SGAE's all-or-nothing rights contracts with its members prevented the liberalization of the rights market in Spain, competitor UNISON says

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Record companies are better placed than streaming platforms to monetize superfans… and 3 other things Robert Kyncl said in his new Q&A

admin — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:22:57 +0000

Warner Music Group’s CEO has some “radical” ideas on how to change how streaming services pay music rights holders

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SM Entertainment beefs up publishing arm Kreation Music Rights with new signings, acquisitions

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:03:02 +0000

In the past five months, KMR has snapped up two music publishers and signed its first artist

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BMG buys catalog of Germany’s Coconut Music, including the recorded rights of ‘What Is Love’ star Haddaway

admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:54:42 +0000

Deal builds on BMG’s 2022 acquisition of Haddaway’s recorded royalties

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