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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)

August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 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

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Music Industry 

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.

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Music Industry 

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

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Music Industry 

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

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Music Industry 

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

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Music Industry 

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

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Podcast 

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

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Music Industry 

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

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Music Industry 

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,

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Music News 

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

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Music News 

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

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