Category: DMG
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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…
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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 Forbes 50 Over 50 and Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players Lists
August 7, 2023 (Hockessin, DE) – Deborah Mannis-Gardner — Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc. and the “Queen of Sample Clearances” according to Billboard, Forbes, Variety, and more — was selected last week for recognition on two prestigious lists: the Forbes 50 Over 50, which highlights dynamic female leaders and entrepreneurs…
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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 Serves as Music Supervisor of Upcoming Neil Bogart Biopic ‘Spinning Gold’
March 30, 2023 – Deborah Mannis-Gardner – Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc. and the “Queen of Sample Clearances” according to Billboard, Forbes, Variety, and more – served as music supervisor for feature film Spinning Gold, selecting and clearing songs by iconic artists such as Donna Summer, KISS, Parliament, the Isley…