Category: DMG News
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Billboard: ‘There Are No Rules’: Inside the Complicated World of Sample Credits
Deborah Mannis-Gardner sat down with Elias Leight to lend commentary to this Billboard piece on sampling credits. To prevail in clearance negotiations, the sampled artist needs leverage and a good lawyer. And negotiations can be charged. “All clearances are emotional,” explains Deborah Mannis-Gardner, president of DMG Clearances. “Someone either wrote this…
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Billboard Women In Music 2025: Deborah Mannis-Gardner
Deborah Mannis-Garnder was included on the Billboard Women in Music list in 2025 under the Multisector category! This year marks her third and most recent inclusion on the list (2020, 2024, and 2025). Beyoncé’s Billboard 200-topping Cowboy Carter — which took home the album of the year Grammy in February…
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A&R Worldwide: DEBORAH MANNIS-GARDNER & PÄR ALMQVIST LAUNCH AYO MUSIC GROUP
A&R Worldwide included the launch of AYO Music Group in their weekly newsletter, Volume 867! Deborah Mannis-Gardner (Owner & President, DMG Clearances) and Pär Almqvist (Co-Founder and former CEO, Tracklib), have teamed up to launch AYO Music Group. AYO offers global services in the management of music publishing, neighboring rights, and recordings, with a focus on…
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Music Ally: Music veterans launch AYO Music Group to correct ‘copy-wrongs’
Music Ally featured the launch of AYO Music Group, highlighting the core of their mission to help rightsholders. Deborah Mannis-Gardner is one of the world’s top music-clearance experts, having worked on projects from Grand Theft Auto games to De La Soul’s famously-complicated digital releases. Pär Almqvist, meanwhile, is the co-founder and…
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Celebrity Access: Deborah Mannis-Gardner And Pär Almqvist Launch Ayo Music Group
Celebrity Access covered the launch of AYO Music Group by Mannis-Gardner And Pär Almqvist. Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc., and Pär Almqvist Co-Founder and former CEO of Tracklib, have joined forces to launch AYO Music Group, a new administration company offering global administration of publishing, neighboring rights,…
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Creative Industries News: DMG Clearances’ Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Tracklib’s Pär Almqvist launch global rights administrator AYO Music Group
Creative Industries News covered the launch of AYO Music Group, explaining their goals and why they were founded. Music licensing and tech veterans Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Pär Almqvist, Co-Founder and former CEO of Tracklib, and Stacey Haber, Chief Legal Officer for SyncLodge and Co-Founder of the Web…
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Music Business Worldwide: Music and tech veterans Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Pär Almqvist launch AYO Music Group
Music Business Worldwide featured the official launch of AYO Music Group, highlighting their mission, current catalog, clients, team, and more. US-based AYO is described as “an active copyright administrator offering global administration of publishing, neighboring rights, and recordings”. According to the launch announcement on Wednesday (December 11), the company’s mission…
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Hypebot: Beyond Excuses – Understanding the Reality and Opportunities of Licensing Music for Games
Hypebot published an op-ed by Deborah Mannis-Gardner on the current trends and best practices around licensing music for video games. “Having a song featured in a game can provide opportunities that differ vastly from film and TV, and can revitalize a song or even a catalog with just one placement.”…
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2024 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the 2024 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players list. “Helping to bring De La Soul’s catalog to streaming in 2023 was extremely meaningful, and I was thankful to get to be a part of music history through that project,” says Mannis-Gardner, who worked with Reservoir, which obtained the…
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2024 Billboard Women In Music
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the 2024 Billboard Women In Music list. Before last year, if fans wanted to listen to one of De La Soul’s critically acclaimed albums from the ’90s, eBay or torrent sites were their best bets. Now, thanks to Mannis-Gardner, fans simply have to open their streaming…