Publishing Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)

January 27, 2023January 26, 2023 Alan Cross 21 Comments Catalog Sales, Catalogue Sales, Concord, Eldridge, Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, Publishing, Round Hill

[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is

Why I think classic rock could be a threat to the music of the future

February 8, 2021February 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Conchord, Hipgnosis, Killers, Neil Young, Primary Wave, Publishing

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. I was also on Feedback on SiriusXM’s VOLUME channel talking about the issue.

In a stunning move, Bob Dylan has sold all his songs to Universal Music

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Alan Cross 3 Comments Bob Dylan, Copyright, Publishing, UMG

Bob Dylan is one of the most important and influential figures in music, full stop, period. But at 79 years

The Killers are the latest act to sell their publishing catalogue for big $$$

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Killers, Publishing

If you like following the backroom machinations of the music industry, you’ll know that a number of companies are buying

Imagine Dragons just made US$100 million. Wow.

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Concord, Imagine Dragons, Publishing

There’s a new gold rush going on within the music industry. Companies are buying up the publishing rights to thousands

A good read: Why vinyl, physical books, and glossy magazines will never go away.

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Magazines, Publishing, Vinyl

Do you buy vinyl? Interested in reading an old-fashioned printed book? Flipping through a glossy magazine? Maybe (okay, definitely) not

Geeks and Beats Podcasts, Episode 177: A Piece O’ Drake

March 28, 2018March 29, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Publishing, Royalties, Stone Temple Pilots, Vezt

What if you could own a piece of your favourite song? And you get a piece of the musician’s royalty

Rocked in a bad way: ASCAP, BMI lose antitrust fight

August 7, 2016August 7, 2016 Amber Healy 2 Comments antitrust, ASCAP, BMI, consent decrees, Department of Justice, Publishing, Royalties, Songwriting

The Department of Justice’s (DoJ) antitrust division on Thursday announced it wouldn’t be modifying the 75-year-old consent decree program that

Does Blockchain Hold the Key to Music’s Future?

March 16, 2016March 17, 2016 Amber Healy 4 Comments blockchain, Copyright, Muse, PeerTracks, Publishing, rights, Royalties

A song doesn’t just happen. There are composers, lyricists, performers. Rights of ownership are divvied up across those parties, labels,

Is This How Dexter Holland of The Offspring is Paying Off his Jet?

January 7, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cessna, Offspring, Publishing, Round Hill

The Offspring, one of the most commercially successful groups of the 90s, has sold off the rights to much of

Here’s a Concise Explanation of How the Music Industry is Broken

December 3, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Kobalt, Publishing, Royalties

Yes, this article at Business Insider is a sponsored post (read: commercial) for a music services company called Kobalt, but