Category: DMG News
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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…
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Can Sampling Survive in the Age of AI?
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed by The Ringer for this article on how AI is impacting sampling. Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the president and owner of DMG Clearances. Mannis-Gardner has worked in the music industry since the 1990s, and her company has become a go-to source for clearing samples, working with superstars like…
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2023 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the 2023 Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players list. “Sampling is a huge part of De La Soul’s entire catalog, and we spent the past year pulling off the impossible and cleared nearly every sample that was used by the group,” Mannis-Gardner says. “It is bittersweet that Trugoy…
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Selected for 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 List
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was included on the Forbes 50 Over 50 list for 2023.
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Deborah Mannis-Gardner Interviewed on BBC’s “The World Tonight”
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed on The World Tonight on BBC on March 21, 2023 beginning at the 26:15 mark.
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Politiken: After 34 years, the record you weren’t allowed to hear comes out
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was interviewed for this Politiken article on De La Soul. For decades, De La Soul’s music was frozen out of the digital world. But after a bitter battle, their first six albums are now available for streaming. But the victory for the group is bittersweet. -Lars Eriksen, Politiken
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HipHopDX: How Deborah Mannis-Gardner Helped Clear De La Soul’s Catalog for Streaming
Deborah Mannis-Gardner was featured in an article from HipHopDX. Deborah Mannis-Gardner, founder of DMG Clearances, was instrumental in securing the necessary sample clearances in order for De La Soul’s catalog to finally appear on streaming services on Friday (March 3). After many years in limbo, De La Soul’s Tommy Boy-era recordings like 3 Feet…
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New York Times: De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory.
The New York Times featured Deborah Mannis-Gardner in this article on De La Soul. The band hired Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the rap world’s go-to sample clearance agent, and the work took more than a year. Mannis-Gardner said that De La Soul’s ownership was important in helping her convince copyright holders “not…