Secretly Group In The News

Indie labels sign landmark deal in China – and, unlike majors, they’re not going exclusive with Tencent

Merlin inks non-exclusive deals with Alibaba, Tencent and NetEase Cloud Music

Epitaph’s Dave Hansen named Chairman of Merlin as Martin Mills steps down from role

Bob Roback of INgrooves joins US section of board

Merlin has paid out $1bn to independent labels in less than 10 years

Organization distributed $353m in the 12 months to end of March

Transgressive co-founder Tim Dellow named Chair of UK’s AIM

Martin Mills, Hannah Overton, Jane Third and more join new AIM Management Group

Merlin deals paying out the equivalent of nearly $1m a day to independent labels

Payouts grow 52% over past year - but online 'value gap' is dragging these numbers down

‘Safe harbour is a crippling brake on the growth of the properly licensed music market’

Beggars boss Martin Mills gives his unique view on the issue plaguing the music business

‘The value of creative assets is systematically being taken away from artists and music companies’

Secretly Group's Darius van Arman talks safe harbor, YouTube, SoundCloud - and the tyranny of copyright laws

‘Independent music companies are most at risk from dangers of safe harbour’

WIN's Alison Wenham kicks off a series of features from the independent community looking at safe harbour laws