Music Industry
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instagram.comOne lawyer said that this market is encouraging creators and publishers to improve their contracts and document-retention practices.
Robert Levine • What Does Private Equity Mean for the Music Business Long-Term?
Another advantage of PE acquisition
Streaming is booming - but not for everyone.
Spotify’s latest report celebrates Canadian music’s global success. And while artists and labels are seeing growth, most songwriters can’t even earn a month’s rent from a year of domestic streams.
It’s time to talk about what a truly thriving... See more
instagram.comHistorically, record labels and music publishers could use the royalties from their older hits to underwrite risky bets on unproven talent. But why “would you spend your time trying to create something new at the expense of your catalog?” asked Merck Mercuriadis
Marc Hogan • Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem
Music copyrights generate steady cash the way mortgages once did, but while individual investments can rise or fall, it’s harder to imagine that a financial squeeze would lead to a selling frenzy that would send prices downward across the board.
Robert Levine • What Does Private Equity Mean for the Music Business Long-Term?
How does this work? Need further research
HarbourView leads $85m investment in AI-powered kids entertainment company Animaj - Music Business Worldwide
Murray Stassenmusicbusinessworldwide.com
the market for music copyrights might actually be more solid than that for housing. So far, on-demand streaming has proved pandemic-proof, and it seems recession-proof, so the only danger would be a collapse of the copyright system — and it’s hard to imagine how that would happen, especially now that the music business survived illegal... See more
Robert Levine • What Does Private Equity Mean for the Music Business Long-Term?
Reasons for optimism: On-demand music streaming has weathered the pandemic, suggesting it can weather other financial crises as well.
An all-out collapse of the copyright system would need to occur for any real damage to be done. The industry has survived other threats to the copyright system ie) illegal reproductions.
Take Whitney Houston’s 1987 smash “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” which was bought in late 2022 as part of a $50 million to $100 million deal by Primary Wave, a music publishing company backed by two private equity firms. The song was recently rebooted into our collective hippocampus via a movie about the singer, titled, naturally, “I... See more
Marc Hogan • Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem
Example
📈 Just over a year ago, ICMP launched its first ever tech driven copyright enforcement tool for members - The Anti-Piracy Platform (APP) powered by MUSO. The APP crawls for illegal content and automatically notifies websites, search engines, social media, cyberlockers, bit torrents, payment services and many other digital services of unlicensed use... See more
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