Morris Music Management

What do UB40, Tom Jones, Toby Keith, Tears for Fears, Richard Ashcroft, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Gewn Stefani, Gomez, Editors, Bill Wyman, Badly Drawn Boy, and Barry Manilow have in common?

Kobalt Music Publishing

From the website:
“In 2000 Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt Music Group’s Founder and CEO, had a vision for a more modern, efficient and transparent music publishing model that would better service the needs of the songwriter and copyright holder. Ahdritz’s experience as the founder of Telegram Publishing, as well as his 10-year management consulting experience for major companies in the financial and transportation sectors, helped him recognize how administration models from other industries, such as financial services companies, could be applied to manage the complex information flow in the global collections process. That vision for Kobalt Music Group was brought together as a co-investment with New Media Spark, the London listed investment group. As part of the initial arrangements, Kobalt Music Group acquired Diesel 2 Publishing and Management AB, a Swedish- based music publishing company founded in 1993 with an established music copyright catalogue which further enhanced the creative expertise in Kobalt.”

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Electronic Arts and Nettwerk One Music have formed a joint venture for a new full-service music company called Artwerk, the company said Monday.

The Artwerk label, which will be based in Los Angeles, will sign and develop both new and established artists for publishing, master recording and sync deals. It has signed producer artist Junkie XL, whose tracks appeared in Madden NFL 07 and Need for Speed Carbon games, and is currently in negotiations with several other artists, according to a release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Redwood City-based Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an interactive entertainment software company.

“As well as making an impassioned plea for more live music over the net at the recent SXSW music festival in Texas, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced his first foray into the world of software with the launch of Lifehouse Method. The music-creation software realises an idea from his long-running Lifehouse project.”
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288 Million singles sold digitally this year according to Sound Scan.

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Compulsory music licenses to get Congressional overhaul courtesy of “Mr. Hollywood”

“Howard Berman, the California Democrat who now heads the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, wonders if it’s time for everyone to pay the same fees. “Is it finally time for a performance right to extend to terrestrial radio?” he said this morning. It was just one of the many questions raised at a committee hearing on reforming Section 115 of the Copyright Act, the part that covers compulsory licenses (the same kind of license that AllofMP3 claims to have under Russian law, and which the RIAA rejects). Reform of this section stalled last year, but Berman is giving it another shot.”

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BILLBOARD: Publishers Sue XM Satellite Radio

“The publishers claim that the service does not merely broadcast recorded songs; it delivers perfect digital copies of songs for its customers to copy to the devices, create extensive libraries of the songs and replay them for as long as the listeners pay XM’s monthly fee. Yet XM has not licensed the right to reproduce or distribute the recorded compositions, publishers claim.”

Publishers are looking to get Mechanicals from the distribution of music via the satellite provider. Sirius, who is in the process of acquiring XM, has already settled with record labels but has not yet settled with publishers.

Only a fraction of both providers customers are using the units that offer the saving of songs. Paying publishers the statutory rate mechanical for every song they play would just not work financially for the network. Are the publishers expecting a SoundScan style report so that publishers can track exactly how many people have saved songs via the service?

I am loving Sound Team’s “Movie Monster” Release. It appears lead singer, Matthew Oliver is Publishing and the whole band is sharing songwriting credits. Is this the future of publishing?

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