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⏩ One Liners: RAK Publishing, FAC Artist Ambassadors, CIISA + more

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One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 4 min read

⏩ One Liners: RAK Publishing, FAC Artist Ambassadors, CIISA + more

Bella Figura snaps up RAK catalogue; Deezer does ad-sales deal with Global; Big Life Management promotions; new Artist Ambassadors for FAC; new music from Lambrini Girls, mui zyu, LYLO…

Sam Taylor • 23 Apr 2024

ICMP launches rights reservations portal setting out the legal and moral obligations of AI companies

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ICMP • 2 min read

ICMP launches rights reservations portal setting out the legal and moral obligations of AI companies

A new portal has been launched by the music publishing sector collating ‘rights reservations’ from music publishers which clearly state that those companies’ rights have been reserved from any data and text mining exceptions in copyright law, in particular the exception in European law…

Chris Cooke • 04 Apr 2024

Hipgnosis Songs Fund is looking for a new company to value its catalogues

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Hipgnosis • 2 min read

Hipgnosis Songs Fund is looking for a new company to value its catalogues

The company that valued the catalogues owned by the Hipgnosis Songs Fund has quit, it has emerged - Citrin Cooperman stood down from that role after the fund’s board raised concerns about the valuation it had calculated…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 13 Feb 2024

Hipgnosis Songs Fund delays finance results because of catalogue valuation concerns

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Hipgnosis • 2 min read

Hipgnosis Songs Fund delays finance results because of catalogue valuation concerns

The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has delayed publication of its latest financial results because “the board has concerns as to the valuation of the company's assets”…

Chris Cooke • 19 Dec 2023

Hipgnosis Songs Fund provides update on strategic review and legal battle with defunct Hipgnosis company

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Hipgnosis • 2 min read

Hipgnosis Songs Fund provides update on strategic review and legal battle with defunct Hipgnosis company

The Hipgnosis Songs Fund last week provided an update for investors on its ongoing strategic review and confirmed it is being sued by a previous and defunct Hipgnosis company that is now in the hands of a liquidator…

Chris Cooke • 27 Nov 2023

beatBread now offer financing to songwriters secured on their publishing

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beatBread now offer financing to songwriters secured on their publishing

Music funding platform beatBread last week announced that it is now offering finance to songwriters secured on their song rights, having previously focused on advancing cash to artists and labels secured on future recording revenues…

Chris Cooke • 13 Nov 2023

Warner Chappell and Transgressive extend their publishing partnership

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Transgressive • 1 min read

Warner Chappell and Transgressive extend their publishing partnership

The Transgressive music publishing business has renewed its partnership with Warner Chappell - it has now worked with the major for seventeen years…

Chris Cooke • 26 Oct 2023

Sean Combs reassigns publishing rights back to Bad Boy artists

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Diddy • 2 min read

Sean Combs reassigns publishing rights back to Bad Boy artists

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reassigned song rights to a number of artists who were previously signed to his Bad Boy label, despite having received mega-bucks offers for his company’s publishing catalogue…

Chris Cooke • 05 Sep 2023

Cooking Vinyl Publishing signed Her’s catalogue

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Cooking Vinyl Publishing signed Her’s catalogue

Cooking Vinyl Publishing will represent the songs catalogue of indie-rock duo Her’s - who were killed in a car accident in 2019 - following a deal with management company Heist Or Hit and the families of the band's members.…

Andy Malt • 01 Sep 2023

Music industry legal news coverage • 1 min read

Dua Lipa sued in latest song theft case

Time now to announce this week’s Song Thief Of The Week. Well done, Dua Lipa! Oh, hang on, that’…

Chris Cooke • 03 Mar 2022

Song Lawsuits • 2 min read

Taylor Swift gets lesser known Shake It Off lawsuit dismissed – again

Taylor Swift was successful in court last week in her ongoing legal battling over the 2014 hit ‘Shake It Off’…

Chris Cooke • 01 Mar 2022

Music industry legal news coverage • 2 min read

The other Shake It Off lyric-theft case returns to court

So you all remember the ‘Shake It Off’ lyric lawsuit right? No you don’t! You’re thinking of the…

Chris Cooke • 26 Nov 2019