[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions by a growing group of companies which are
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. I was also on Feedback on SiriusXM’s VOLUME channel talking about the issue. – AC] Call it the revenge of the boomers. Music publishing is both
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Bob Dylan is one of the most important and influential figures in music, full stop, period. But at 79 years of age, he’s decided to cash out. Universal Music Group has purchased the
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If you like following the backroom machinations of the music industry, you’ll know that a number of companies are buying up the back catalogues of big artists for insane amounts. For example, there’s
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There’s a new gold rush going on within the music industry. Companies are buying up the publishing rights to thousands of songs, knowing that this sort of intellectual property will be a reliable
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Do you buy vinyl? Interested in reading an old-fashioned printed book? Flipping through a glossy magazine? Maybe (okay, definitely) not as much as you used to. And you’ve probably (okay, definitely) heard all
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What if you could own a piece of your favourite song? And you get a piece of the musician’s royalty cheque? The more people bought or streamed the track, the richer you get.
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The Department of Justice’s (DoJ) antitrust division on Thursday announced it wouldn’t be modifying the 75-year-old consent decree program that governs the public performance licensing structure for BMI and ASCAP compositions. This means
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A song doesn’t just happen. There are composers, lyricists, performers. Rights of ownership are divvied up across those parties, labels, publishers, distributors and possibly other entities. And the sale of one company to
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The Offspring, one of the most commercially successful groups of the 90s, has sold off the rights to much of their music to a company in New York called Round Hill. The price?
Read MoreYes, this article at Business Insider is a sponsored post (read: commercial) for a music services company called Kobalt, but it does raise some good points.
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