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)

The music world is being shook by the actions of a half a dozen or so companies who are buying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver