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CV America announces new publishing ventures
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 14 March 2014
CV America – the US business of the Cooking Vinyl Group – has announced a new music publishing venture which will see the company sign songwriters to its own roster, and also provide publishing services to other indie labels looking to move into this side of the music rights sector but needing support on rights management, marketing and administration.
Team Ghost, Mary Epworth, Postiljonen and The Balconies are amongst the first signings to CV America’s publishing unit, while Brooklyn indie Cascine, which works with the likes of Chad Valley, Erika Spring and Keep Shelly In Athens, is the first record company to partner with the firm in launching its own publishing division.
Confirming that, Cascine founder Jeff Bratton told CMU: “We’re excited to partner with CV America in launching a publishing division for the label. By leveraging CV’s expertise in the space and Cascine’s relationships with artists, I’m confident the relationship will be both fun and fruitful”.
CV America has also announced the launch of a new A&R network which will see reps from around the world input into the company on new talent, especially from a publishing standpoint, with Dan Koplowitz of US-based Friendly Fire Recordings and Rich Thane of UK music magazine The Line Of Best Fit the first members of that network.
Confirming all this from a CV America standpoint, the company’s CEO Erik Gilbert told CMU: “These are exactly the sorts of deals that we envisaged being able to make when we formed CV America, and we’re very pleased to have secured such a strong roster of songwriters. Having a US publishing division has opened up a lot of exciting opportunities for the CV Group – not least our new label partnerships and A&R network – which we are continuing to explore”.
