Music Rights

Status Updates

Meet the Putmans was cancelled after production stalled due to unresolved music rights issues and subsequent distributor withdrawal, not because of a single public incident. The...

music-rights

Bob Marley’s song catalog and master recordings are primarily controlled through a structured blend of legacy entities and major music rights organizations. Key holdings sit w...

music-rights-transactions

In late 2023, Justin Bieber's recorded music publishing catalog was sold to investment firm Irving Street Capital. The reported price was approximately $200 million, based on cr...

business

John Branca is an entertainment attorney and business executive best known for high-profile music-industry work, especially as the estate manager for Michael Jackson. While his...

music-industry

Scooter Braun and Taylor Swift represent one of the most closely watched dynamics in modern music business. This explainer outlines how their paths intersected professionally, t...

music-industry

Owning your masters means you or your company hold the copyright to the original recording that can be licensed or sold independently of any record deal. For artists, it shapes...

music-rights

Ownership of Mac Miller's music hinges on who holds the underlying sound recordings and musical compositions, and whether rights were retained, transferred, or inherited. This e...

music-history

The question of who sang "Lady Marmalade" first has two answers: the original 1975 French songwriters, and the first English-language recording artist to popularize it. Written...

Songwriting

The song known as “My Way” is fundamentally rooted in the 1967 French song “Comme d’habitude.” That original was written by Claude François and Jacques Revaux, with l...

Status Updates

As of the latest available public records, Justin Bieber’s recorded music catalog has been the subject of a major licensing and royalty restructuring, rather than a straightfo...