Author: Zachary Gulino

  • beatBread and OpenPlay Partner to Provide Flexibility and Leverage to Indie Labels

    beatBread and OpenPlay Partner to Provide Flexibility and Leverage to Indie Labels

    Los Angeles, CA, JUNE 07, 2024 — beatBread (www.beatBread.com), the AI-driven funding platform for music that enables artists, labels and publishers to access growth capital while maintaining ownership and control, and OpenPlay, provider of the music industry’s leading platform for asset and catalog management, have teamed up to help independent…

  • DDEX & A2IM Enter Into Liaison Agreement

    DDEX & A2IM Enter Into Liaison Agreement

    New York, NY (06 June 2024) – DDEX, the international standards-setting organization dedicated to improving the exchange of data and information across the music industry, has announced it has signed a liaison agreement with A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) in acknowledgment of their shared interests in identifiers, metadata, and…

  • Fortune: AI-generated ‘BBL Drizzy’ started as a Drake joke—but music creators are now terrified it spells the beginning of the end

    Fortune: AI-generated ‘BBL Drizzy’ started as a Drake joke—but music creators are now terrified it spells the beginning of the end

    Martin Clancy was quoted in Fortune’s article discussing the potential impacts of AI generated music on music creators. Martin Clancy, a music professor and chair of the AI Ethics board of the IEEE, said that the music industry is already fragile for the majority of creators. Most musicians and producers…

  • Variety: Music Industry Moves: Warner Music Group Hires Goldman Sachs’ Michael Ryan-Southern as Executive VP of Corporate Development

    Variety: Music Industry Moves: Warner Music Group Hires Goldman Sachs’ Michael Ryan-Southern as Executive VP of Corporate Development

    Variety’s Music Industry Moves Column covered the recent news that peermusic has signed Jessica Vaughn to a global publishing administration deal. Peermusic has signed songwriter, recording artist, and music executive Jessica Vaughn, to an exclusive global publishing agreement. Through the deal, peermusic will administer select catalog and future works. The deal also…

  • Billboard: Publishing Briefs: SONA Foundation & Backline Partner to Provide Mental Health Services for Songwriters

    Billboard: Publishing Briefs: SONA Foundation & Backline Partner to Provide Mental Health Services for Songwriters

    Billboard’s Publishing Briefs Column this week covered the news that peermusic has signed Jessica Vaughn to a global publishing administration deal. peermusic has signed songwriter/executive Jessica Vaughn to a global publishing administration deal. This includes the administration of her back catalog, synch services for selected masters and a synch agreement with Vaughn’s company, Head…

  • A2IM Member Spotlight: OpenPlay

    A2IM Member Spotlight: OpenPlay

    A2IM’s Member Spotlight highlighted OpenPlay! OpenPlay is the provider of the music industry’s leading platform for asset and catalog management, bridging the gap between content creation, metadata management, assets, and delivery. Its newest feature, Direct Delivery, allows music companies with an OpenPlay subscription to seamlessly send music and video releases…

  • Digital Music News: Catalog Management Specialist OpenPlay Tosses Free Too Lost Distribution Accounts to Subscribers

    Digital Music News: Catalog Management Specialist OpenPlay Tosses Free Too Lost Distribution Accounts to Subscribers

    Digital Music News covered OpenPlay’s new partnership with TooLost bringing free delivery to clients of its industry leading CMS. Catalog management specialist OpenPlay has announced a deal with Too Lost to offer subscribers distribution directly to DSPs at no cost, with no distribution fee.OpenPlay has added new pricing tiers to…

  • PEERMUSIC SIGNS GLOBAL PUBLISHING AGREEMENT WITH JESSICA VAUGHN

    PEERMUSIC SIGNS GLOBAL PUBLISHING AGREEMENT WITH JESSICA VAUGHN

    DEAL ALSO ENCOMPASSES SYNCH REPRESENTATION FOR MASTERSAND SYNCH AGREEMENT WITH VAUGHN’S HEAD BITCH MUSIC Burbank, CA (June 5, 2024) – peermusic has signed songwriter, recording artist, and music executive Jessica Vaughn, to an exclusive global publishing agreement, as announced today by Kathy Spanberger, President & Chief Operating Officer, peermusic and…

  • Complete Music Update: One Liners: Halsey, Diddy, PRS For Music + more

    Complete Music Update: One Liners: Halsey, Diddy, PRS For Music + more

    The Complete Music Update One Liners Column included the news that Jessica Vaughn has been signed by peermusic to a global publishing administration deal. Peermusic has signed Jessica Vaughn to a worldwide publishing deal. “I have been in the music industry for over twenty years now, and I’ve never been more excited and…

  • Record of the Day: Peermusic signs global publishing agreement with Jessica Vaughn

    Record of the Day: Peermusic signs global publishing agreement with Jessica Vaughn

    Record of the Day covered Jessica Vaughn’s news signing a global publishing administration deal with peermusic. peermusic has signed songwriter, recording artist, and music executive Jessica Vaughn, to an exclusive global publishing agreement, as announced today by Kathy Spanberger, President & Chief Operating Officer, peermusic and Alison Dannenberg-Frost, Vice President Film & TV Creative,…