An investor group led by Sony closed its $2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing on Friday June 29, 2012, creating a giant force in music publishing, the unglamorous but lucrative side of the music business that deals with songwriting rights.
The deal will give Sony control over a catalog of more than two million songs.
Sony’s new catalog will include the 750,000 tracks — including 251 by the Beatles — that are controlled by Sony/ATV, the company’s joint venture with the estate of Michael Jackson. It will also include 1.3 million from EMI, with Motown hits, chestnuts like “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and songs by contemporary stars like Norah Jones, Kanye West and Amy Winehouse. MORE HERE
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ReplyDeleteSony Music acquired Colombia Records, that does not mean they own the rights to “Loving You”. The Copyright Owner for “Loving You” is Thomas J. Mitchell.
What Sony Music should do is stop business with Campbell Connelly & Co Ltd, London (pub.) who published “Loving You” and remember you are not the copyright owners of my work.
The (1974) London (UK) Publishers of "Loving You" 14-15 Berners Street, London W1T 3LJ
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