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This week, Common Music UK introduced that it’s altering its firm construction from October 1. It will embody the merger of two famend London-based frontline labels: Island Information UK and EMI.
In the meantime, on the opposite aspect of the pond, songwriter teams hailed the US Copyright Workplace‘s ruling that songwriters are entitled to gather mechanical royalties from streaming platforms like Spotify after their termination rights have been invoked, that’s, once they reclaim their rights from one other get together, often a writer.
We additionally received phrase this week that longtime HYBE exec Lenzo Yoon will likely be leaving the corporate on the finish of this yr. Yoon most just lately held the title of Co-CEO of HYBE America, a task he shared with Scooter Braun.
Again in Europe, France-headquartered Imagine introduced it had taken a 25% stake in Romania-born International Information, which describes itself as the largest indie music firm in Central and Jap Europe.
Talking of investments: Having received its bidding conflict towards Harmony, Blackstone cleared the final hurdle this week in its acquisition of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, as HSF shareholders accepted its takeover bid with 99.97% of voting shares saying sure to the deal.
Common Music UK is altering its firm construction from October 1. It will embody the merger of two famend London-based frontline labels: Island Information UK and EMI.
Louis Bloom would be the president of the newly-named Island EMI Label Group; Bloom will transfer into the position from his present place as President of Island Information UK.
The Island EMI Label Group will type one in every of two “powerhouse frontline label teams”, Common Music UK’s Chairman/CEO, David Joseph, introduced in an inside memo on July 9.
The opposite will likely be Polydor Label Group, led by Ben Mortimer as President…
Quite a lot of organizations representing artists and songwriters in the USA have applauded the US Copyright Workplace’s ruling reaffirming termination rights beneath the Music Modernization Act (MMA).
The rule clarifies that songwriters are entitled to gather mechanical royalties generated from streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Amazon after their termination rights have been invoked (i.e., once they reclaim their rights from one other get together, on this case, a music writer).
Within the US, songwriters have the best ‘to terminate the unique or nonexclusive grant of a switch or license’ after 35 years for works written after 1978 (or 56 years for works written/copyrights granted previous to 1978).
The ruling, which was printed on July 9, confirms that the so-called “spinoff works exception” doesn’t apply to the blanket license beneath Part 115 of the Copyright Act…
Lenzo Yoon is leaving South Korea-headquartered leisure big HYBE on the finish of 2024.
That’s in accordance with a report printed in South Korea’s Maeil Kyungjae enterprise paper, which stories that the exec’s contract comprises a non-compete clause that expires on the finish of 2024. The report provides that Yoon will depart the corporate ‘instantly thereafter’.
The exec most just lately held the title of Co-CEO of HYBE America, a task he shared with Scooter Braun till January 2023, when the latter exec grew to become sole CEO of HYBE America.
Lenzo Yoon has been a key exec at HYBE since he joined the corporate in 2010 as Head of Strategic Planning, and when it was often known as Massive Hit Leisure…
Imagine has signed a strategic partnership with Romania-born International Information, which is claimed to be the largest impartial music firm in Central and Jap Europe.
As a part of the deal, Imagine has acquired a 25% stake in Bucharest-headquartered International Information, which has workplaces in Romania, Germany and the US.
Imagine stated on Monday (July 8) that this strategic partnership “falls in line” with its “blueprint technique to give attention to music genres the place artist improvement and music consumption are digital”…
It’s official: Blackstone is about to grow to be the brand new proprietor of Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
Blackstone’s USD $1.584 billion bid for the UK-listed music firm received overwhelming approval amongst HSF shareholders who voted at a Court docket Assembly and Normal Assembly on July 8.
The method noticed 99.97% of the Scheme Shares voted by HSF shareholders approve the Blackstone deal.
Blackstone wanted no less than 75% of voting shares to get the deal over the road…
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