From Pophouse’s $1.3bn music rights fund to Morrissey’s legal action… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines ...
Tag: rights
Pophouse Entertainment, the firm behind ABBA Voyage, closes $1.3bn music rights buying fund
Pophouse Entertainment, the Sweden-based music investment firm co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, has raised over EUR €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) ...
Melody Rights may have a simple solution for music royalties
For most musicians, the process of registering a song for royalties summons a bespoke blend of boredom and dread. There’s ...
Sony’s music rights business generated over $10bn for the first ever year in 2024; firm’s outgoing CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, applauds EMI buy as best of his tenure
Sony’s global music copyright business surpassed a significant financial milestone in the calendar year of 2024, according to MBW calculations.The ...
US Copyright Office launches inquiry into performance rights organizations
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has launched an inquiry into performance rights organizations in the US, in an effort ...
Rights management platform for generative AI raises $2.1 million in investment
Musical AI, a rights management platform for generative AI, has raised $2.1 million (CAD) in initial investment to support its ...
UK-based Melody Rights launches new rights management and distro platform
A new UK-based company called Melody Rights has launched a music tech platform that, according to its press release, will ...
Musical AI and Beatoven.ai to build “first fully licensed, rights holder-compensating” AI music generator
AI training content licensing and attribution company Musical AI and Beatoven.ai have teamed up to build what they claim to ...
GoldState Music buys catalogs from CatchPoint Rights, AMR Songs for $200m (report)
US-based music rights investment firm GoldState Music has expanded its portfolio through two strategic acquisitions, purchasing catalogs from CatchPoint Rights ...
Primary Wave strikes music rights deal with estate of country and folk singer-songwriter, Jerry Jeff Walker
Primary Wave Music has revealed its latest acquisition. The company announced on Friday (October 25) that it has struck a ...
