For a quick but essential update about the high end of music publishing, read Ben Sisario’s Q&A in the New York Times with Martin N. Bandier.
Bandier is the NYC-based chairman of Sony’s publishing arm, Sony/ATV, which completed its $2.2 billion purchase of EMI Music Publishing on Friday, June 29th. Read more...
The independent NYC-based entertainment company Razor & Tie has named Barton J. Weiss to the position of Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs.
Weiss was previously Business & Legal Affairs Consultant at Sony Music Entertainment. Prior to that, he served as VP, Business & Legal Affairs at EMI Music Publishing. Read more...
The bad news continued on Wednesday for NYC-based LimeWire, as the National Music Publisher’s Association filed a lawsuit against the file-sharing service for copyright infringement of their works “on a massive scale”.
In May, Judge Kimba M. Wood of United States District Court in Manhattan ruled that LimeWire and its Read more...
