Interviews Bob Valentine answers MBW's questions on his leadership plans and the state of the acquisitions marketplace News Bennett joins as Executive Vice President, Lord joins as Executive Vice President, Content Creation and Patrick Joest named Head of Synchronisation News He was was most recently Spotify’s Head of the Middle East and North Africa News Label will be part of Concord Label Group and distributed through Universal Music Group Analysis News Publishers claim that "Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions". News ICE was formed by three collection societies: PRS for Music (UK), STIM (Sweden) and GEMA (Germany) News Exec will be responsible for the development and management of Concord’s US songwriter roster for the purpose of sync activity Analysis Blog This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.