Publishing

1. NMPA President and CEO David Israelite to Retain Position Through 2018

   June 18, 2013 12:54 PM EDT David Israelite, the president and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association since 2005, will retain his position through 2018, the organization's board of directors announced today. “David has been an exceptional leader for th ...

2. Nonprofit Pvblic Helps Justin Bieber-supported Charity Raise $400K, Working with Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo

   June 17, 2013 6:22 PM EDT Earlier this year, when Pencils of Promise was looking for a marketing partner to help spread the word about its annual Justin Bieber-supported Schools 4 All fund-raising campaign, the international education organization turned to the nonprofit ...

3. From The Magazine: Will iTunes Radio Pay Off?

   June 17, 2013 2:45 PM EDT This story on Apple's business model for its just-launched iTunes Radio is from the latest edition of Billboard (cover date June 22, 2013). Also featured in this issue: a look at Pandora's terrestrial radio purchase; the declining va ...

4. SONGS Signs Up Conde Nast

   June 17, 2013 9:00 AM EDT Seeking to carve out a new model for licensing, SONGS Music Publishing struck a novel deal with Conde Nast Entertainment Partners, which agreed to use SONGS' catalog as the primary source of music for original online videos produced for its ...

5. Berry Gordy, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Aerosmith, More Honored at Songwriters Hall of Fame Event

   June 14, 2013 6:12 PM EDT NEW YORK -- The Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner is pretty much the do of the year for the music publishing industry, and in addition to virtually everyone who’s anyone in the executive side of that world, there’s always a jaw-dropping array of l ...

6. Lawsuit Against Warner/Chappell Music Claims 'Happy Birthday' Belongs to Public Domain

   June 13, 2013 4:22 PM EDT In the late 19th century, a schoolteacher named Patty Smith Hill and her sister Mildred Hill composed the first version of a tune that would become internationally famous. In fact, "Happy Birthday" has been cited by the Guinness Book o ...

7. BMI Files Suit Against Pandora

   June 13, 2013 12:51 PM EDT BMI, Broadcast Music Inc., today filed suit at the U.S. Southern District Federal Court in New York, seeking a determination of rates for a blanket license for all music played on Pandora. Billboard broke the news of the impending lawsuit lat ...

8. NMPA: David Israelite, RIAA's Cary Sherman Work to Mend Fences Between Publishers, Labels

   June 13, 2013 11:39 AM EDT At the National Music Publishers' Association annual meeting yesterday at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, NMPA president David Israelite pointed out that the music industry has moved beyond the period of copyright theft and denial of ...

9. National Music Publishers’ Association Names New Board

   June 13, 2013 10:31 AM EDT At the  National Music Publishers’ Association annual meeting last night at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, New York City, the organization announced its new board of directors, including newly-elected Kobalt Music Group CEO Willard ...

10. Nik Kershaw Signs Global Publishing Deal With Imagem Music

    June 13, 2013 7:12 AM EDT Imagem Music has re-signed British '80s hitmaker Nik Kershaw to a worldwide publishing deal. Imagem (then Rondor) signed Kershaw back in 1994 and has since represented his catalog, which includes the popular albums “The Riddle” and “Human R ...

11. RIAA & NMPA Eyeing Simplified Music Licensing System, Could Unlock 'Millions' in New Revenue

    June 13, 2013 5:11 AM EDT At the National Music Publishers Assn. annual meeting yesterday in New York City, RIAA chairman and CEO Cary Sherman told attendees that the RIAA and NMPA were working together to establish a micro-licensing vehicle that would make it easier for ...

12. New Music Seminar 2013: The Ins and Outs of Synch Licensing

    June 12, 2013 2:07 PM EDT The promise and process of music placements in television, movies and advertising was the topic du jour at a panel Tuesday for the New Music Seminar in New York. Representatives from labels and top music licensing companies, including Warner Mus ...

13. ASCAP, NMPA Respond to Pandora's Acquisition of Radio Station

    June 12, 2013 11:29 AM EDT ASCAP and the National Music Publishers' Association have responded harshly to Pandora's purchase of a small-market radio station in an attempt to lower its ASCAP royalties.   Pandora announced Tuesday it has purchased KXMZ-FM in Rapid ...

14. Jeff Price, Peter Wells, TuneCore Co-Founders, Launch Audiam

    June 12, 2013 11:28 AM EDT Jeff Price and Peter Wells, best known as the co-founders of TuneCore, are launching a new business today called Audiam centered around getting indie music and user-generated content on YouTube properly credited and monetized. Audiam is soft lau ...

15. Sony/ATV Signs With Apple iRadio, Launch Imminent

    June 07, 2013 12:11 PM EDT As the June 10 opening of the four-day Apple Worldwide Developers Conference nears, Apple has managed to broker deals with nearly all the major music companies just in time to announce its planned music streaming service at the meeting. Sourc ...

16. Chart Moves: 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa Make 'Fast & Furious' Rise; Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift Set Country Airplay Record; Ke$ha Debuts On Hot 100

    June 07, 2013 12:02 PM EDT As previously reported , Macklemore & Ryan Lewis notch a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Can't Hold Us," featuring Ray Dalton. Who else makes news on the Hot 100 and other song charts this week?   -- 2 Chain ...

17. ASCAP To Honor Patrick Doyle at Film & TV Music Awards

    June 06, 2013 4:35 PM EDT Composer Patrick Doyle, whose scores include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Gosford Park" and "Carlito’s Way" will receive the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award at the performing rights organization's  28th an ...

18. Clear Channel, Dualtone Strike Revenue Agreement

    June 06, 2013 10:52 AM EDT Clear Channel Media has announced its latest direct licensing deal, this time with Dualtone Music Group, an independent rock label based in Nashville, Tenn. The agreement allows Dualtone artists to share revenue from Clear Channel’s broadcast an ...

19. BMI Demands Retraction from TMZ, Claims Story Misrepresented & Contained Errors

    June 06, 2013 5:19 AM EDT Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) says it has requested TMZ retract a story which the performing rights organization claims “misrepresents” its values and mission while including a “number of inaccuracies.” In a story published Wednesday under the hea ...

20. ASCAP's Williams Laments SOPA, Calls Piracy a 'Glamorizing' Nickname for Thieves at World Creators Summit

    June 05, 2013 6:09 PM EDT Despite the debacle of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, that went down in flames after a host of copyleft organizations and internet companies that owe their livelihood to other people's content ignited a grassroots firestorm of protest ag ...

21. Publishers to Get Bigger Payday From Apple Thanks to Direct Licensing Deals

    June 05, 2013 6:09 PM EDT In cutting a deal with the Warner Music Group, sources say Apple caved on publishing and has agreed to pay at least 10 percent of advertising revenue to license the songs, sources say. While the WMG deal is for both master rights and publishin ...

22. CISAC Launches LINK, a Multi-Repertoire Creators Forum

    June 05, 2013 12:46 PM EDT CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, which is currently staging the world Creators Summit in Washington, D.C., has launched LINK, a forum of intellectual property creators, to facilitate communication and ...

23. Copyright Review Under the Microscope at World Creators Summit

    June 05, 2013 2:55 AM EDT While U.S. register of copyright Marie Pallente called for Congress to perform a comprehensive review of copyright at the World Creators Summit held today in Washington, DC, other speakers during the day questioned if a surgical rewriting would ...

24. 'Fantasia: Music Evolved' Wants Gamers Closer to Music, Features Bruno Mars, Queen and More

    June 04, 2013 2:33 PM EDT Disney Interactive and Harmonix have announced the upcoming release of “Fantasia: Music Evolved,” a new motion-responsive video game for Xbox One that reinvents the historic Fantasia brand. Developed by Harmonix, the gaming studio behind the &qu ...

25. Backbeat: Creative Artist Agency's Unofficial CMA Week Kickoff BBQ Brings Out Hunter Hayes, More

    June 04, 2013 11:24 AM EDT The 21st Annual CAA BBQ was packed last night at Creative Artist Agency’s downtown Nashville offices, serving as an unofficial kickoff of CMA Music Festival week. A big pile of school supplies were donated, as usual, for the Pencil Foundation. ...

26. Rhapsody Expands to 14 European Countries

    June 03, 2013 5:57 PM EDT Rhapsody on Monday expanded its subscription music service to 14 additional European countries in a bid to accrue scale and more effectively compete with Spotify, Deezer and others in the burgeoning on-demand music market. The expansion brings ...

27. Clear Channel and Fearless Records Strike Broadcast and Digital Performance Royalty Deal

    June 03, 2013 9:00 AM EDT With a pact now with Fearless Records, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment continues its slow but steady signing of independent label deals in which the broadcaster agrees to pay artist performance royalties from terrestrial radio in exchange ...

28. Warner Music Group Inks iRadio Deal for Publishing, Recorded-Music Licensing

    June 02, 2013 5:02 PM EDT Warner Music Group on Sunday became the first major record company to sign both a publishing and a recorded music licensing deal with Apple Inc. for the upcoming Internet radio service that many have dubbed "iRadio," sources say. Unive ...

29. PIAS Partners With BMG Over Sanctuary/Mute Catalog; European Indie To Open New York Office

    May 31, 2013 3:51 PM EDT European independent PIAS has partnered with BMG to provide digital and physical retail marketing, sales, manufacturing, and distribution services for its recently-acquired Sanctuary and Mute catalogs. The deal, which covers the world, excluding ...

30. SkyLight, Non-Profit Seeking to Support Female EDM Execs, Launches

    May 28, 2013 6:32 PM EDT Founded by artist manager Stephanie LaFera and Billboard contributor Kerri Mason, SkyLight will seek to support aspiring female entrepreneurs, set on working within dance music, by providing connections to a mentorship program, networking opport ...

31. Arts & Crafts’ Jeffrey Remedios on Label's Tenth Anniversary, the ‘Nostalgia Vortex,' Stars' Pillow Cases

    May 28, 2013 4:30 PM EDT A lot has happened in the ten years since Jeffrey Remedios and his friend Kevin Drew put out Broken Social Scene’s You Forget It In People on their Toronto-based Arts & Crafts label. What was once a small, DIY indie has evolved into a manag ...

32. Daft Punk, Imagem Music U.K. Re-Up Publishing Partnership

    May 26, 2013 11:33 PM EDT Daft Punk has signed a timely music publishing deal with Imagem Music U.K., just as the French electronic music duo’s fourth album “Random Access Memories” crashes sales charts around the globe. Imagem will publish Daft Punk’s songs throughout t ...

33. 'Liberace' Music Supervisor Evyen Klean Discusses Marvin Hamlisch's Role, Michael Douglas' Singing Voice

    May 24, 2013 2:02 PM EDT Can HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” pump new life into the music of Liberace? The film’s music supervisor, Evyen Klean, believes it has a shot.   “The movie is going to expose Liberace’s music to a whole new fan base,” Klean said the day the film ...

34. Lateral Management/Publishing Opening U.S. Office

    May 24, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Anglo-Scandinavian artist and songwriter management/publishing company Lateral MGMT is coming to the U.S. The company, which currently operates out of London and Stockholm and manages hit U.K. artists Paloma Faith and Taio Cruz, tells Billboard ...

35. Publishing Briefs: Sting, One Direction, Imagine Dragons Sign New Pub Deals

    May 21, 2013 7:00 AM EDT -- Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed a long-term extension administration agreement with Sting , who has had a relationship with the company for more than 16 years. The global agreement will cover all music publishing throughout Sting’s solo ...

36. The Doors: A Billboard Chart History

    May 20, 2013 9:51 PM EDT Following the death of Doors keyboardist and founding member Ray Manzarek, Billboard looks back on the legendary rock band's chart legacy. Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. He was 74. The Doors was one of the m ...

37. Eminem's Music Publisher Suing Facebook

    May 20, 2013 7:56 PM EDT On Monday, Eight Mile Style, LLC, the company that administers the rights to Eminem's music filed a lawsuit against Facebook. The complaint filed in Michigan federal court not only accuses the popular social network of lifting one of Eminem ...

38. Prince, Kobalt Pen Partnership Pact

    May 20, 2013 6:00 AM EDT Just hours after accepting the Icon Award at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Prince is announcing his new partnership with Kobalt Label Services (KLS), a division of independent music services company Kobalt Music Group. Unde ...

39. Music Matters 2013 Preview: YouTube and the Online Video Phenomenon; Keynotes By Johnny Wright, Rob Wells, Frances Moore

    May 17, 2013 3:05 PM EDT The focus of the 2013 Digital & Music Matters is unequivocally on YouTube and the online video phenomenon. The Asia Pacific entertainment event, held May 20-25 at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, will be broadcast live on YouTube, inclu ...

40. Morning Fix: Billboard Music Awards This Sunday; Ticketmaster Settles Rewards Suit; How Candace Glover Won 'American Idol'; Superfly's Googa Mooga Improvements

    May 17, 2013 8:30 AM EDT Get the Morning Fix Delivered To Your Inbox HERE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS KICK-OFF SUNDAY WITH PRINCE, MADONNA, LIL WAYNE, TAYLOR SWIFT, JUSTIN BIEBER, BRUNO MARS, MUCH MORE Get ready for this Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards at Las Vega ...

41. Warner/Chappell Music Strikes Deal with Lionsgate

    May 16, 2013 9:22 PM EDT Warner/Chappell Music has taken another step to fortify in film and TV music business, signing a deal for portions of Lionsgate's music library and setting up a co-publishing partnership with the film and television producer for other works ...

42. Cliff Martinez, John Williams, Mike Post, More Honored at BMI Film & TV Awards

    May 16, 2013 12:27 PM EDT The standing ovation for honoree Cliff Martinez was fully expected at BMI's Film & TV Awards Wednesday night. But when the performing rights organization's two top executives -- Doreen Ringer-Ross and Ray Yee -- were greeted with s ...

43. Backbeat: SESAC Pop Music Awards Pop Off With Michelle Williams, Swizz Beatz, Mumford's Ben Lovett; Honor Daniel Glass, Rico Love

    May 14, 2013 6:12 PM EDT SESAC hosted its 17th Annual Pop Awards last night at the New York Public Library. Rico Love captured top honors at the event taking home both Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year awards for his hit, "Heart Attack" as recorded b ...

44. Updated: Warner Music Group Quarterly Revenue, Profit Up

    May 14, 2013 8:18 AM EDT Strong releases helped Warner Music Group post gains in the quarter ending January 31st. Revenue rose 8% to $675 million from $623 million a year earlier. Operating income rose 159% to $57 million and operating income before depreciation and amo ...

45. Business Matters: House Judiciary to Hold Copyright Hearing on May 16

    May 13, 2013 7:49 PM EDT The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet will hold a hearing on May 16 titled “A Case Study for Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project.” The hearing, at 2 p.m. eastern, is the second in Hou ...

46. Primary Wave Nabs $125 Million Financial Partnership

    May 09, 2013 5:55 PM EDT Primary Wave Music has announced a new financial partnership with Credit Suisse and SunTrust Bank that's valued at $125 million and expands the music company's seven-year relationship with the two banks. Primary Wave's current man ...

47. Around the 55th Annual NARM 'Music Biz' Convention

    May 09, 2013 4:43 PM EDT The U.S. music industry's sales, retail, distribution and marketing mavens descended on the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza for NARM's annual "Music Biz" convention. In his opening speech, NARM president Jim Donio termed the meet ...

48. Kobalt Launches New Portal, Unlocks User-Generated YouTube Royalties

    May 09, 2013 8:43 AM EDT Kobalt has added to its bet on greater transparency with the launch of a new interactive client portal where clients can view the usage data and royalties earned on YouTube user-generated videos. The music publisher expects this technology, and ...

49. Antfood, Southern Comfort, Human Lead Inaugural AMP Awards Winners

    May 08, 2013 8:49 PM EDT The Association of Music Producers held the inaugural AMP Awards in New York on Wednesday night during Creative Week, honoring the best uses of music in advertising and branding. Eleven trophies were awarded in 10 different categories, plus tw ...

50. Business Matters: Pandora Email to Artists Ruffles Feathers

    May 08, 2013 8:11 PM EDT Digital royalties are back in the news after being a continuously hot topic in 2013. An email exchange between artist and label owner Blake Morgan and Pandora founder Tim Westergren was seen in an article at the Huffington Post. Morgan told the ...

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