Category: DMG News
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Record of the Day: RZA Invests in AYO Music Group, the Copyright Administrator Built to Find the Royalties Music Creators Are Owed
Record of the Day covered the recent news of RZA’s investment in AYO. Wu-Tang Clan founder joins Disturbing Tha Peace co-founders Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, family office CIH Group, and Ewing Athletics owner David Goldberg as an investor in the company founded by DMG Clearances’ Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Tracklib…
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Music Ally: Protect Ya Deck: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA invests in AYO Music Group
Music Ally covered the recent news of RZA’s investment in AYO. It’s nearly two years since music-clearance veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Tracklib boss Pär Almqvist co-founded their new venture AYO Music Group – an “active copyright administrator” helping rightsholders better exploit their catalogues. Now the company has backing from genuine hip-hop royalty in…
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Music Business Worldwide: RZA Invests in AYO Music Group, The Music Copyright Administrator Co-Founded by Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Pär Almqvist
Music Business Worldwide covered the recent news of RZA’s investment in AYO. RZA, the founder of Wu-Tang Clan, has invested in AYO Music Group, the copyright administrator co-founded by Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Pär Almqvist. He joins Disturbing Tha Peace Records co-founders Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, Atlanta- and Johannesburg-based family…
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Honored on Billboard’s 2026 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players List
The Billboard 2026 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players list is out today and Deborah Mannis-Gardner is featured in the Multisector category.
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Music Business Worldwide Guest Post: Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future
Music Business Worldwide published Deborah Mannis-Gardner’s newest op-ed titled “Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future” in which she argues that the music industry’s existing sample-clearance framework could be applied to AI licensing. AI is sampling. There, I said it. And as someone who’s been…
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Billboard Women In Music 2026 – Deborah Mannis-Gardner Honored
Deborah Mannis-Garnder was included in this year’s Billboard Women in music list in the multisector category! Congrats Deborah!
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The Biz & Beyond: Celebrating Women’s History Month – Featuring Deborah Mannis-Gardner
Women’s History Month is in full swing! Here at Jaybird, we’re celebrating with a series of in-depth conversations with some of our amazing clients and friends, who are quite literally making history across the music industry and beyond. In this episode, Ashley Friedman talks to the “Queen of Sample Clearances”…
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Shoot: “Sinners” Tops Winners At The 16th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was mentioned in Shoot’s coverage of the 2026 Guild of Music Supervisor’s Awards where she won the award for Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries for Hip Hop Was Born Here Season 1. Best Music Supervision in a DocuseriesDeborah Mannis-GardnerHip Hop Was Born Here (Season 1)
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Billboard: ‘Sinners’ Is a Double Winner at 2026 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: Full Winners List
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was mentioned in Billboard’s coverage of the 2026 Guild of Music Supervisor’s Awards where she won the award for Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries for Hip Hop Was Born Here Season 1. Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries Linda Cohen – Mr. Scorsese Season 1 Ciara Elwis, Rochad Holiday,…
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Variety: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ Among Guild of Music Supervisors Award Winners
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was mentioned in Variety’s coverage of the 2026 Guild of Music Supervisor’s Awards where she won the award for Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries for Hip Hop Was Born Here Season 1. Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries Deborah Mannis-Gardner, “Hip Hop Was Born Here” (Season 1)