ASCAP Daily Brief

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. Tech companies and criminals have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future The Death of the Long Tail By Mark Mulligan -- The concept of the long tail seemed like a useful way of understanding how consumers interact with content in digital contexts, and for a while looked like the road map for an exciting era of digital content. Intuitively the democratization of access to music – both on the supply and demand sides – coupled with vastness of digital music catalogs should have translated into a dilution of the Superstar economy effect. Instead the marketplace has shown us that humans are just as much wandering sheep in need of herding online as they are offline. How Digital Music Services May Be Fueling a 'Superstar Artist Economy' By Stuart Dredge -- ...the top 1% of musical works are now accounting for 77% of all those artist revenues thanks in part to a "tyranny of choice" on digital services...The report takes pains to point out that "superstar" artists aren't necessarily just those signed to major labels, noting that a number of independent artists have broken into the 1% tier. One Market is Responsible for Half of Global Digital Music Sales: the United States, at $2.9 Billion By Nicholas Jackson Trends: Plenty of Digital Debates By Chris Cooke - It feels like there weren't any major developments in digital music in 2013, with most column inches dedicated to the ongoing debate over the royalties paid by the streaming music platforms (focused on Pandora in America and Spotify in Europe). Though a more interesting discussion was also being had away from the spotlight about what kinds of digital services can and will succeed. 50 Cent The Latest To Exploit The Music Industry's Newest Business Model By Bobby Owsinski -- The artist and his G-Unit imprint joins a number other artists like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Korn, Peter Gabriel and Prince who chose to leave the comfort of a traditional major label record deal behind in favor of going independent, but with a new twist. Warner Music Begins Auctioning Off Assets to Indies Following Parlophone Acquisition By Ed Christman -- The massive list of assets which indie labels can bid on is thousands of pages long, though WMG will likely not part with any of its crown jewels — i.e. those artists critically acclaimed and/or financially rewarding. US Government Supporting TV Broadcasters in Aereo Fight at Supreme Court By Eriq Gardner ABC, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.  Brief for ASCAP, BMI, NMPA, RIAA, SESAC, The Recording Academy, SGA, CMPA, NSAI and Soundexchange, Inc. in Support of Petitioners How to Make Your Posts Stand Out on the Web: the Complete Guide to Social Media Formatting By Courtney Seiter -- In this post, we'll go over some simple tricks and best practices of social media formatting to help you create unique, stand-out posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest, along with some tools to help you create memorable blog tidbits worth sharing. gTar Licensing Deals Make 2 Million Song Tutorials Available By Eliot Van Buskirk -- Incident Tech, maker of the advanced, iPhone-powered gTar, says it has signed landmark deals with major music publishers Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing after 18 months of negotiations to offer around two million song tutorials within the gTar app, which runs inside a special $400 guitar. a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25154-dream-job-digital-instrument-creator.html#.UxX4ac6cf9U">Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator By Jessica Hamzelou -- Sometimes playing a guitar with a plectrum isn't enough. Jimi Hendrix used his teeth. Creative musicians are always seeking ways to make novel sounds with existing instruments, as are digital instrument creators like Andrew McPherson, of the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. 4 Amazing Mobile Apps for Musicians and Composers By Mackenzie Carlin Time Zones and Business Hours Around the Globe By XKCD Philippe Jaroussky And The Impossibly High Male Voice By NPR Staff Justin Bieber and the Beatles: They both liked to rhyme the same words By Ben Blatt -- What is the most common rhyme in the history of pop music? DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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Dear Congress, Please Make Pandora Stop Screwing Us. Signed, Songwriters…

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 
by 

Paul Resnikoff

Songwriters have a problem with Pandora, and it looks like this:

(photos: Digital Music News, from handout at a recent songwriter protest in Washington, DC)

Songwriters understandably hate this, but they have almost no power to stop it.  The reason is that despite incredibly low payouts, it’s nearly impossible for songwriters to remove their catalogs from Pandora, or even negotiate better terms.  The complicated explanation has to do with a century of antiquated laws that basically force songwriters to license their content at fractional rates, and like it.

Last year, a number of prominent songwriters protested on Capitol Hill, with emotional performances designed to combat lower royalty rates.  This year, they’re exercising the nuclear option by introducing legislation to change the laws.  This bill, introduced this morning, is called the Songwriter Equity Act, with Congressman Doug Collins sponsoring.

Essentially, the bill attempts to plug two massive loopholes in copyright law that greatly benefit Pandora but essentially screw songwriters.  ”Roughly two-thirds of a songwriter’s income is heavily regulated by law or through outdated government oversight,” National Music Publishers’ Association CEO David Israelite told Digital Music News.  ”This legislation addresses two significant inequities under current copyright law that prevent songwriters and music publishers from receiving compensation that reflects the fair market value of their work.”

“I fear that without the Songwriter Equity Act, songwriting as a profession will give to way songwriting as a hobby, and an important American treasure will be in jeopardy.”

A copy of the bill is here.

(written while listening to CVRCHES on Rdio using Parrot Ziks)

ASCAP Daily Brief

Monday, March 03, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. Tech companies and criminals have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future Tech Time Warp of the Week: Check Out Mid-'90s Netscape, the Coolest Startup in Silicon Valley By Daniela Hernandez -- Twenty years on, it's a rather amusing pitch. But it also shows that Netscape did more than just lay the technological foundation for companies like Google and Facebook and GitHub. It's also laid the cultural foundation. [Boy, did it. For example, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen says in the video, "We're looking for people who will ask for forgiveness afterwards rather than ask for permission up front," the morally corrupt credo Google lives by to this day.] YouTube Is the World's Biggest Music Streaming Service, Says Spotify By Janko Roettgers -- Spotify is starting to see nine-digit play counts for some of its songs — but YouTube still drives far bigger audiences. Amazon Wants To Start A Streaming Service By Mike Blossom Records Is Shutting Down on Record Store Day and Putting Everything On a Bus... By Nina Ulloa Dead Air on Radio Royalties By Brad Hill -- Should broadcast radio be required to pay royalties to labels and recording artists for use of their records? There are arguments on both sides, and the stalemate reinforces inertia. But the debate is heating up, gaining publicity, and creating awareness of an issue that many people don't know about. Now You Know Everything About Music Publishing... By Budi Voogt -- It's essential to manage and exploit your musical repertoire, and look at alternative means to generate revenue streams in this realm. To make this happen you need to understand music copyright and publishing...How Live Music Is Evolving with the Digital Age By Stuart Dredge -- Digital music isn't just a recorded thing: there are a growing number of ways that digital technology – from apps and social media to big data – is having an impact on the live music market. With $1 Billion in Sales, Apple TV Is Not Just a 'Hobby' By Chris O'Brien [I dunno, I always feel a bit queasy when I lose $300 million.] Why Defenders Say Collapse of Mt. Gox Is Good for Bitcoin By Chris O'Brien -- The collapse of Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange according to Bitcoincharts.com, and the potential loss of $300 million by its customers who wouldn't get their Bitcoins out, might seem like bad news to some. But for many in the Bitcoin community, it's actually being seen as a welcome development. Quoted: Mt. Gox's Massive Bitcoin Losses By Mark Murphy -- Mt. Gox owner and CEO Mark Karpeles: "There was some weakness in the system, and the bitcoins have disappeared. I apologize for causing trouble." Nearly 150 Breeds Of Bitcoin-Stealing Malware In The Wild  By Andy Greenberg ["If this kind of thing isn't good for real people let's see if we can sucker punch creators. Why not? Everybody else does."] Songcoin: A Digital Currency for the Music Industry... By Nina Ulloa 25 Greatest Original Song Nominees That Lost at the Oscars By Katie Hasty, Melinda Newman, Liane Bonin Starr, Daniel Fienberg, Gregory Ellwood, Alan Sepinwall, Dave Lewis and Chris Eggertsen This Might Be The First Selfie In Photographic History By John Brownlee [From the Creator's Survival Guide] 74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza By Quoctrung Bui VIDEO: Rhapsody in Blue Harmonica This wonderful performance of the George Gershwin classic is from 2009 when the performer, Leung Pak-yue, was 13 years old. [Thanks to Hank Jones for the link.] DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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ASCAP Daily

Friday, February 21, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. Tech companies and criminals have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future Camper Van Beethoven's 2013 Net Profit Was $645 Million Dollars Higher Than Twitter. By David Lowery Compulsory Licensing & Chilling Effects By David Newhoff -- The compulsory license strips one of the fundamental properties of copyright, the right of choice, from the artist, and this is why Steven Tyler and Dina LaPolt were supported with letters from other creators including, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Sting, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Fleetwood. Why Does Pandora's Introduction Of Political Ad Targeting Matter To Musicians? By Clyde Smith -- This rollout speaks to Pandora's ability to profile its listeners and is certainly big news in the ad world. But it's also the kind of news that musicians and the music industry should be paying attention to despite the fact that it probably sounds incredibly boring. Don't think it matters? Let me help you do the math. Google, Advertising, Money and Piracy. A History of Wrongdoing Exposed By The Trichordist -- Readers of this blog will know that we've been gaining attention and awareness on brand sponsored piracy. We've noted how "50 Major Brands are Supporting Music Piracy." When that information is paired with The LA Times and The New York Times reports from the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab's Transparency Report on Advertising Networks financing piracy we see a very clear picture emerging. It is very clear that online piracy is a mass scale, for profit, enterprise level commercial business. CMT Artists Release Mobile App For Underserved Country Music Market By Clyde Smith -- According to Matt Seigel, VP of Music Strategy for Viacom, in comparison with other popular music categories country music is underserved online and on mobile. Quick take: it's a nice app that's going to help fill the gap quite solidly. Mobile Games Have Become Ridiculously Lucrative Over The Past Year By Tero Kuittinen Music And Games Make Friends Again By Bobby Owsinski -- At its peak, artists, bands, labels and songwriters saw an unexpected and, for a time, significant income stream that promised to hold up a flagging music industry for a little while, only to have it go the way most trends do and die almost overnight. Why Facebook Just Paid $19 Billion for a Messaging App By Cade Metz Crime Jazz: Noir-ish Music from '50s Television and Film Crime Dramas By Xeni Jardin -- In the '50s, a new style of musical score was introduced to movie soundtracks: jazz. Previously, movie music meant sweeping orchestral themes or traditional Broadway-style musicals. But with the growing popularity of bebop and hard bop as the sound of urban cool, studios began latching onto the now beat as a way to make their movies seem gritty or "street." A Stunning App That Turns Radiohead Songs Into Dreamscapes By Liz Stinson Ethereal Effects By Michael Cooper -- Whether the impetus was Steven Halpern's seminal New Age album Spectrum Suite or 10cc's mainstream mega-hit "I'm Not In Love," 1975 was the year music escaped earthly bounds to explore new sonic landscapes dripping in expansive reverbs and droning tones. Indie Musicians On The Rewards Vs. The Challenges Of Building Independently By Clyde Smith -- When asked about the "advantages and benefits" as well as the "challenges" of going indie, these musicians' answers covered a lot of ground but might be summed up by saying that creative freedom requires business savvy. How A Stressful Night For Miles Davis Spawned Two Classic Albums By NPR Staff -- Fifty years ago, on Feb. 12th, 1964, Miles Davis led a band through one of the most exciting gigs to ever take place at New York's Philharmonic Hall...Journalist and critic Colin Fleming considers this show one of three or four greatest concerts ever given. The irony, he says, is that the experience was miserable for the musicians, who'd had an argument just before showtime. A Taste for Music By Vincent Kessler -- I love cooking and I have a passion for music. What then could please me more than an orchestra that plays music with instruments made out of vegetables? DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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ASCAP Daily

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. Tech companies and criminals have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future The National Endowment for the Arts Contributes Report to Further Show the Significance of Creative Industries to US Economy By Sofia Castillo How The Role of Genres Has Changed In Music Culture By Mark Mulligan -- A school of thought that is gaining traction is that genres matter much less than they did, and that they are no longer so useful for categorizing music... The Plus in Google Plus? It's Mostly for Google By Claire Cain Miller -- Google Plus may not be much of a competitor to Facebook as a social network, but it is central to Google's future — a lens that allows the company to peer more broadly into people's digital life, and to gather an ever-richer trove of the personal information that advertisers covet. [Thanks to David Lowery] Google Developing Internet That's Over 1,000 Times Faster Than Yours By Klint Finley New Study Projects Growth of Online Listening By Brad Hill -- Anew research report from eMarketer projects US online listening to grow incrementally through 2018, from 148-million listeners in 2013 to 183-million listeners in 2018. iMarketer characterizes the audience as "mass market" now, totaling over half the US population, and two-thirds of the online US population. Questlove on How to Find Music You'll Fall in Love With By Ahmir Questlove Thompson Is Apple Changing the Station on its TV? By Patrick May -- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. At least that's what Apple is apparently doing as it rethinks its TV strategy, choosing to partner with big cable companies on streaming content rather than putting together its own programming for an Internet-based television service. Weekly Copyright Issues Wrap Up...February 14th, 2014 By the American Continental Group (ACG) -- [Thanks to the Copyright Alliance for the link.] Do Our Musical Leanings Predict Our Political Ones? Pandora Thinks So By Michelle Quinn -- Pandora is selling the idea that our music equals our politics to candidates and political organizations who seek ways to better target their messages... Reporting From the Web's Underbelly By Nicole Perlroth -- Brian Krebs's widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions off spam, malware and frauds... Seeking Privacy, Teens Turn to Anonymous-Messaging Apps By Cecilia Kang Digital Music Gets a Cubist Makeover By Neha Okhandiar -- An 8-inch wooden cube may be an unlikely spark for a musical revolution – but that's the hope of a collaboration of electronic engineers and musicians working towards hackable electronic instruments that performers can easily modify to produce sounds in surprising new ways. How to Find Your Audience: A Step-by-Step Guide for Musicians By Lukas Camenzind Alison Martino's 'Vintage Los Angeles' Movie sets, the famous Whisky A Go Go and more are all entries in a blog all about Vintage Los Angeles. DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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ASCAP Daily Brief

Friday, February 07, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. "Copyright theft is theft as in identity, not in car." Richard Bennett - Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Heading out of town for business meetings. Back on the 17th. Growing Up With Radio By Brad Hill -- [DK comment: Brad Hill offers a wonderful recollection of times past. He also provides a reminder of how sterile today's algorithm'd music delivery systems truly are. In the early days of the "rock revolution," everybody's hometown was its own Petri dish for the development of new strains of popular music. The experiment was overseen by a mix of crazy, zany and mellow men and women who delivered the fresh and exhilarating new music straight into the brains of willing and excited listeners who believed they were enablers of change. And they were, with their loyalties and their dollars.] Italian, French Music Revenues Up for First Time in Over 10 Years By Richard Smirke 2008 – Educating and Empowering the Music Community By ASCAP100 -- ASCAP establishes a Bill of Rights for Songwriters & Composers and publishes its powerful position paper, Music Copyright in the Digital Age. The Bill of Rights has received over 13,000 signatures so far... What Bruno Mars' Super Bowl Show Means For His Earnings By Zack O'Malley Greenburg How To Get Your Music On Pandora: Physical CD No Longer Required By Clyde Smith -- Pandora has finally opened its doors to musicians (and comics) who aren't on a label and don't have a physical CD with UPC on Amazon. YouTube Cracks Down On Fake Views As Google Links To 'Buy YouTube Views' By Bruce Houghton [It's not up to creators to fund a rotten business model by accepting little or no pay for attracting billions of views to Google Ads.] Can Susan Wojcicki Help YouTube Creators Make Money? By Lauren Hockenson -- Wojcicki's strong leadership at Google Ads, and her success in that department, may grow YouTube's prospects and profits in the long term. But it's hard to ignore the increasing unrest among content creators who see YouTube as an untenable ecosystem that ultimately doesn't pay enough for the work it demands. Pandora and Twitter Revenue Rises, Stocks Fall By Alex Pham [Tech's "really creepy factor" gets closer to taking center stage.] Tech Industry Flexes Muscle in California Race By Norimitsu Onishi -- The race in the 17th Congressional District in California underscores the tech industry's push to elect candidates who will further its interests, even if it means trying to replace a party stalwart with a relative unknown. Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction By Bill Wasik Ten Legal Practice Tips: Developing and Distributing Apps By Jamie N. Nafziger -- Apps likely contain several elements of intellectual property. Protect copyrights, patents and trade secrets as you would in other software projects. 9 Email Productivity Secrets That Will Get Your Life Back By Jayson DeMers -- Does it sometimes feel like email is taking over your life? Considering that reading and responding to email accounts for about 28% of our total workweek, this isn't much of an exaggeration. 7 Negotiating Techniques Musicians Need To Use To Get Paid By Ari Herstand If You Can't Afford a Luxury Apartment in Manhattan, Here's a 360-degree Panoramic of The View. [This is very cool.] 5-Second Test to See If You're a Good Liar By Colin Schultz 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual By Kyle VanHemert DEAN KAY Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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Sony ATV acquires EMI Music Publishing Group - Kenneth Howard Smith and Russell G. Ingersoll catalog in transfer

HOLLYWOOD CA (IFS) -- Sony Music has acquired all of the publishing rights from EMI Music of Kenneth Howard Smith and Russell G. Ingersoll's songwriters catalog. Smith and Ingersoll collaborated on many songs as writers and artists at Motown Records in the 1970's and 1980's.   Other songwriters that co-wrote songs with the two were, the late Lee Rogers Craton, the late Jon Morano, Patrick Posin and Ronnie Dechense. Ingersoll is currently re-working on his "Timeless" CD and other new songs. Smith is presently hosting a radio show in Memphis TN.