Sony Music Publishing In The News

BeatStars launches ‘Creator Rights Agency’ platform to assist music creators in deal negotiations

The new tool is described as 'an end-to-end service that allows creators to get data-driven recommendations from experts'

From Universal’s investment in Weverse to Trefuego’s $800,000 copyright infringement fine… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

Brennen Bryant named A&R Director at Avex USA Publishing, signs DJ Smallz 732

DJ Smallz 732 is managed by Neil Jacobson alongside Daniel Jacobson at Hallwood Media

Rapper Trefuego used an unlicensed sample in his TikTok hit 90mh. Now the court is making him pay over $800,000 in damages to Sony Music.

Sony Music’s lawsuit accused Trefuego of “flagrant and deliberate infringement”

Symphonic Distribution to host third annual women empowerment mentorship program with mentors from Amazon Music and Meta

The program has so far connected 165 mentors with 340 mentees around the world

This d4vd track recorded on BandLab’s free app just surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify

Track has been streamed over 43.3 million times on Spotify in the past month

Position Music hires former Kobalt exec Jay Moore as VP, Head of Investments

Moore previously served as Chief Investment Officer at Ditto Music and Senior Director, Investments & Office of CEO at Kobalt Music

The NMPA isn’t planning to renew its deal with TikTok. Will any indie publishers join Universal Music Group’s boycott?

NMPA offers to help indie pubs take legal action against ByteDance's platform