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Lennon's family donates Peace proceeds to U.N....popular peace anthem. Munoz told a news conference at U.N. headquarters that Lennon's widow and sons, partnering with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, were making the first private donation to the U.N. Peacebuilding Fund, which has... In this article: Yoko Ono Lennon, Heraldo Munoz, Give Peace a Chance, Beneficiary, Itunes, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Julian Lennon |
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PR Newswire: Technology | November 03, 2009
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon Partner With EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to Donate Net Proceeds From Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace a Chance' 40th Anniversary Digital Single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon Partner With EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to Donate Net Proceeds From Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace a Chance' 40th Anniversary Digital Single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund See...
In this article: Give Peace a Chance, Yoko Ono, United Nations, EMI Music, Plastic Ono Band, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, John Lennon, and Itunes
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Slacker (music service)
...its Portable Players. April 8, 2008 - the company announces agreements with top music publishers, including EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/Chappell Music. The agreements, signed...
In this article: Slacker, BlackBerry, Iphone, Last.fm, BlackBerry Storm, Research In Motion, Facebook, and EMI
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Gamespot | August 31, 2009
Beatles: Rock Band could pay out $40 million in royalties - Report
...the number of parties who need to be paid. The majority of song rights are owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a joint venture of Sony Corp. and the recently deceased singer Michael Jackson's estate. Two other record labels control the...
In this article: The Beatles: Rock Band, Rock Band, MTV Games, Viacom, The Beatles, Joint venture, Apple Corps, Los Angeles Times, and Electronic Arts
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Variety.com - Web Exclusive | September 24, 2008
MySpace Music sets launch date
MySpace Music, which is owned by News Corp. and operates within the Fox Interactive unit, has inked as joint venture partners EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and the Orchard.
In this article: MySpace Music, MySpace, Universal Music Group, News Corp, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, Joint venture, Apple iTunes, Fox Interactive, and Amazon MP3
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Beatlemania down under on September 9
...catalogue. The Beatles-inspired rhythm game marks the first-time collaboration between Beatles-owned Apple Corps, EMI Music, Harrisongs Ltd and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to bring the music of The Beatles to an interactive format. Giles...
In this article: The Beatles: Rock Band, Xbox 360, Abbey Road, Wii, PS3, Microsoft, The Beatles, Rubber Soul, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Kotaku | September 01, 2009
How Is Beatles Rock Band Gonna Do? [Harmonix]
...and the George Harrison estate. "The royalty rates on this are not even comparable to anything that has been done before," Martin Bandier, chairman of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, told The Los Angeles Times. ATV Music Publishing is a joint...
In this article: The Beatles: Rock Band, Rock Band, Viacom, The Beatles, Joint venture, Rock Band, MTV Games, Apple Corps, and Twitter
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Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC is one of the world's largest music publishing companies. The company was formed by the 1995 merger of the Sony Corporation of America's music publishing business with ATV Music, which Michael Jackson had purchased in 1985 for $47.5 million from Australian businessman Robert Holmes à Court. Given that Jackson's ATV Music was more valuable asset, he was awarded with $110 million alongside with receiving 50% of shares in the merged company. Also, Jackson kept as his sole property Mijac Music Publishing catalogue, which owns all of artist's composed music, as well as of many other acts.
The S/ATV MP or administers over 600,000 copyrights, including works by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond and numerous others.
Among Sony/ATV's most valuable holdings is the Northern Songs catalogue, consisting of 180 songs written by The Beatles (mostly by Lennon-McCartney). According to the Sony/ATV Music website, the company owns or administers 1,963 songs from the Lennon-McCartney catalog.[https://satv.sonydadc.com/sony_atv/cgi-bin/doSearch?username=CJKeBWOLmd0%3D&password=Sot5H1AMmIY%3D&language=OQIbaYUGL2E%3D&artist=P5lJqL6riqXJaoVHnfegmzUipB%2BSM%2FdL&type=QRNeXVqwh1fe00gp%2FJBIZg%3D%3D&xmlresp=xVSRMK7UGsk%3D&fuzzy=xVSRMK7UGsk%3D®ion=zkS%2FEoiLZJnV9Yp8lxrBAw%3D%3D&writer=Cs1nuI6u8fwnglA9r%2FSiOJELGQ9NrdgR&seed=225006836&continue=true].
In May 2007, Sony/ATV acquired the Famous Music publishing company from Viacom's Paramount Pictures for $400 million. The Famous Music catalogue includes 125,000 songs.
The company is co-owned by Sony and trusts formed by Michael Jackson and is worth between 1 and 8 billion dollars. Sony/ATV Music Publishing is not part of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment venture.
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