Exec succeeds Martin Jessurun who steps down as President of Warner Music Benelux, and Arno Van Berkel, who exits as MD of Warner Chappell Music Benelux
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Scott Cohen to exit Warner as Chief Innovation Officer
Warner hired Cohen to the newly created position of Chief Innovation Officer, Recorded Music back in March 2019
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Kobalt Neighbouring Rights changes name to Kollective Neighbouring Rights, launches platform powered by The Orchard
Name change follows Sony Music’s acquisition of KNR, along with AWAL, from Kobalt in May 2021
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Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Lebanese label and music publisher, Voice of Beirut
Reservoir says that the acquisition builds on its emerging markets strategy
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Chuck D sells catalog to Reach Music, three years after suing the indie publisher for allegedly withholding royalties
Company buys 50% of copyright ownership interest and 100% of the writer’s share, including global administration rights, to Chuck D’s catalog
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YouTube says it paid the music industry over $6bn in the past year – with around $2bn coming from UGC
Right now, YouTube and Spotify appear to be keeping pace with one another
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Universal acquires mtheory’s label division; JT Myers and Nat Pastor to run UMG’s global artist services business
Execs appointed Co-CEOs of a new global division, Virgin Music Group
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Sir Lucian Grainge on streaming growth, catalog deals and the balance of power between labels vs. DSPs
Universal’s Chairman and CEO participated in a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference
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Béatrice Dumurgier appointed Chief Operating Officer of Believe
Exec “has a proven track record of successfully steering and scaling businesses”, says Believe
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Warner Music, Universal Music sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike over MQA encoding process
The cases against the two music giants is in relation to their partnership with MQA Ltd.
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