The Music Biz Board and Staff extend our sincere appreciation to our sponsors. We invite you to support these companies in the months and years to come. Learn more at the links below.
If you would like to explore future sponsorships, please contact Pat Daly at pat.daly@musicbiz.org and 856.596.2221.
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Music business, simplified.
Artist Growth provides managers, labels, agents and artists with proven, cloud-based software for music business and tour management. Streamline your workflow. Manage event logistics. Automate ticket requests and guest list management. Track, analyze and report finances. Connect unlimited team members and data with a single, permission-based tool. Anytime, anywhere. Users include Vector, Red Light, C3, Sony Nashville, Jason Aldean, The Weeks and hundreds more.
Music Biz attendees receive an exclusive 1 MONTH FREE TRIAL by visiting Artist Growth’s booth near Room 205.
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Baker & Taylor is a leading distributor of books, video and music products to libraries, institutions and retailers. We are passionate about book and entertainment products. Many of us have been here for a long time – 20, 30, 40 years. We form deep and lasting bonds with our supplier partners and customers; and we always strive to delight the readers, viewers and listeners. We have been in business for over 180 years and have developed long-term relationships with major book and music labels. We have more than 36,000 customers in more than 120 countries.
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The College of Law at Belmont University provides a natural extension of the university’s mission and vision that emphasizes challenging academics, a service-minded approach, real-world experience, and community leadership in a student-centered Christian environment. Belmont law graduates will be practice-ready attorneys, empowered by their education and co-curricular experiences to provide legal counsel in a variety of settings, with commitment to high standards of expertise and ethics.
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Big Machine Label Group was founded in late 2005 by music industry veteran Scott Borchetta, who serves as President & CEO. Big Machine Label Group contains Big Machine Records, Republic Nashville, The Valory Music Company, DOT Records and Nash Icon which operate under the Big Machine Label Group umbrella.
The company is headquartered in Nashville, and its artist roster includes Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Danielle Bradbery, The Cadillac Three, Thomas Rhett, The Mavericks, RaeLynn, Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Reba, Eli Young Band, Cassadee Pope, Florida Georgia Line, Maddie & Tae, Drake White, Martina McBride, Ronnie Dunn, Brett Young, Tucker Beathard and A Thousand Horses.
Supporting sponsor of the 9/16 Entertainment & Technology Law Conference
BMI, a global leader in rights management, is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 500,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 7.5 million musical works. BMI has represented the most popular and beloved music from around the world for more than 70 years. The company provides licenses for businesses that perform music and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.
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Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC is a midsized Nashville law firm that traces its roots to 1978, when Charles Bone, Sam McAllester and Mike Norton first joined together to practice law. More than two decades later, in 2002, these lawyers, along with Stacey Garrett Koju, realized their shared vision of an entrepreneurial law firm, in which attorneys could bring their expertise and passion for the law into an environment focused on high quality work, client satisfaction and community involvement. The result of this vision is Bone McAllester Norton. Today, the firm consists of more than 40 attorneys with an extensive range of practices and experiences. We are united not only by our enthusiasm for the law but also by a relentless dedication to our clients and commitment to providing comprehensive and goal-oriented advice. We approach each case with a thorough understanding of our client’s objectives, and we focus on building creative and strategic solutions. Bone McAllester Norton functions under a commitment to accessibility, responsiveness, cost-effectiveness and professionalism.
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BuzzAngle Music’s new charts and analytics offer data at a much more granular level and in a much more timely manner than the most commonly used measurement of sales and streaming available up to this point, leading to an ability to produce over 250,000 unique charts daily, revolutionizing a slow, staid and stale aspect of the music industry. The week-to-date charts are updated each day to reflect the previous day’s sales and streaming activity in both the United States and Canada.
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Caroline is a full-service partner to the independent label and artist community. Building on the over 30-year tradition of the historic Caroline Distribution (one of the U.S’s largest independent distribution companies), Caroline has defined itself as a successful service company for a diverse roster of labels such as ATO, Hopeless, G-Unit, Frontiers, Dine Alone, Astralwerks, and Harvest. Caroline has also helped deliver career best results for artists like Alabama Shakes, All Time Low, Halsey, Slash, Tyrese, Five Finger Death Punch, 50 Cent and more. Caroline provides full services including Branding, Synch, Radio Promotion, On-Line Marketing, Product Management, and more. Caroline defines the essence of the independent culture and spirit while bringing all of the leverage of a major to the marketplace. Driven by commitment, passion and hustle, Caroline delivers a transparent, flexible and tailor-made vehicle to super-serve, support and nurtures the independent community, artist and label.
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Founded in 1958, the Country Music Association was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. In 1961, CMA created the Country Music Hall of Fame to recognize artists and industry professionals with Country Music’s highest honor. More than 7,600 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe are members of CMA. The organization’s objectives are to serve as an educational and professional resource for the industry and advance the growth of Country Music around the world. This is accomplished through CMA’s core initiatives: the CMA Awards, which celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2016; CMA Music Festival, which benefits music education and is taped for a three-hour TV special; and “CMA Country Christmas,” featuring Country artists performing original music and Christmas classics. All of CMA’s television properties will air on the ABC Television Network through 2021.Founded in 1958, the Country Music Association was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. In 1961, CMA created the Country Music Hall of Fame to recognize artists and industry professionals with Country Music’s highest honor. More than 7,600 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe are members of CMA. The organization’s objectives are to serve as an educational and professional resource for the industry and advance the growth of Country Music around the world. This is accomplished through CMA’s core initiatives: the CMA Awards, which celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2016; CMA Music Festival, which benefits music education and is taped for a three-hour TV special; and “CMA Country Christmas,” featuring Country artists performing original music and Christmas classics. All of CMA’s television properties will air on the ABC Television Network through 2021.
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For more than 25 years Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP has provided legal counsel to leading media and entertainment clients, from individual creators, to corporations, associations and non-profit organizations. We provide transactional services for clients in connection with feature film, documentaries, cable, broadcast television, theatre, music, publishing, dance, photography, visual arts, fashion, software, advertising, licensing and online technologies. We counsel in copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights as well as manage clients’ trademark portfolios. Our litigators handle all forms of media and digital rights disputes including copyrights, trademarks, advertising, domain name, media defense, publicity rights and commercial cases. We understand our clients’ businesses and are committed to offering them individual attention that includes in-depth industry knowledge, as well as focused legal advice.
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DataArt is a global technology consultancy that designs, develops and supports unique software solutions, helping clients take their businesses forward. Recognized for their deep domain expertise and superior technical talent, DataArt teams create new products and modernize complex legacy systems that affect technology transformation in select industries.
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DDEX is a consortium of leading media companies, music licensing organizations, digital service providers and technical intermediaries, focused on the creation of digital supply chain standards. To support the automated exchange of information along the digital supply chain, DDEX has standardized the format in which information is represented in XML messages and the method by which the messages are exchanged between business partners. These standards are developed and made available for industry-wide implementation. DDEX standards help rightsholders, retailers and technical intermediaries to more effectively communicate information along the digital supply chain. This leads to efficient business transactions, reduced costs and increased revenues for all sectors involved. Formed in 2006, DDEX initially focused on standardizing message formats for the digital music supply chain but the foundation of the standards is sufficiently generic that they can easily be adapted to other digital media supply chains.
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The DEG advocates and promotes entertainment platforms, products and distribution channels which support the movie, television, music, consumer electronics and IT industries. DEG aims to:
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Digimarc enables businesses and governments worldwide to enrich everyday living with the means to identify all forms of content, including audio, video, packaging, and imagery. We develop solutions, license intellectual property, and provide development services to global business partners across a wide range of industries. Digimarc holds a large and growing intellectual property portfolio that spans the breadth and depth of innovation in digital watermarking and content identification, with over 800 issued US and foreign patents.
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Dorado Music Packaging provides extraordinary record jackets as dynamic and vibrant as the records themselves. Dorado’s unmatched customer service, custom printing options and reasonable prices allow the independent music community to affordably create the visual component of each release, without compromising quality or artistic integrity.
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Dropbox is a service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, and share them easily. Any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your phone or tablet, and the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it easy to share with others. And if your computer melts down, you can restore all your files from the Dropbox website with a couple clicks.
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Founded in 1972, FROSCH was established with a focus on deluxe leisure and corporate travel. In 1977, Richard Leibman acquired sole ownership of the agency from the Frosch family. In 1998, Richard was joined by his son, Bryan who today serves as the company’s President & CEO. In 2004, Bryan’s sister, Lara, joined the company as Executive Vice President. Since 1998, the company has expanded by an average of 30% per year, both through internal growth, as well as through strategic acquisitions. FROSCH maintains offices nationwide, placing it among the top ten agencies in the U. S. Over the past sixteen years, FROSCH has grown from 30 employees to more than 1800. Last year, FROSCH’s managed travel spend grew to $1.5 billion.
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GigSalad is the marketplace for booking bands, musicians, entertainers, speakers and services for parties, productions, and events of all types and sizes. With tens of thousands of performers and professionals for hire across the U.S. and Canada, it provides an easy and secure way to create an extraordinary gathering, whether you’re a first-time event host or a seasoned pro. Book something awesome!
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with approximately 2,000 attorneys serving clients from 38 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm is No. 1 on the 2015 Law360 Most Charitable Firms list, second largest in the U.S. on the 2016 Law360 400, Top 20 on the 2015 Am Law Global 100, and among the 2015 BTI Brand Elite.
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HI-FI, The Mobile Lifestyle Network® is the new mobile media platform where businesses and individuals own customized hashtag sites based on their interests. HI-FI has launched Marketplace, a revolutionary new service where users create and buy hashtag sites within specific categories. As the perfect website companion, these new hashtag sites are called Tagtopics™- portals to everything you love. They are unique community destinations where you join and collaborate with brands and like-minded people around a specific topic. Tagtopics feature curated news, LIVE video streams and interest-driven content from around the world. The HI-FI mission is to be the converging force between the mobile web and the app world, connecting businesses and individuals through content and community in more efficient ways ever done before.
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The Jaxsta journey started in 2013, to answer a first-hand need for a validated data source that ensures credit is shared where credit is due. The company’s mission is to track down the people behind the music. From radio to roadies, artists to producers, photographers to video directors. Jaxsta will be the credit roll for our industry. By sourcing data from multiple authoritative sources, and then having real humans review anomalies, we are ensuring our data is as close to perfect as possible. The official Jaxsta database will launch in 2017.
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Leavens, Strand & Glover is an entertainment, media and intellectual property law firm with a focus on creative industries and endeavors. With offices in Chicago and Nashville, the firm represents both institutional and talent clients in a variety of transactional and litigation matters – including complex contractual negotiations and other strategic transactions – and craft favorable outcomes to difficult problems. The firm is also committed to advancing the rights of artists, producers, distributors and media companies through its work in the entertainment community. Among them, the attorneys teach at multiple law schools, have served on the board of governors and other leadership positions at the Lawyers for the Creative Arts and currently hold various leadership roles for the Recording Academy, known for the GRAMMY Awards.
National Sponsor of 2015-2016 Music Startup Academy
More than 12 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving over time. MailChimp has been around since 2001. The company started as a side project funded by various web-development jobs. Now we’re the world’s leading email marketing platform, and we send more than a billion emails a day. We democratize technology for small businesses, creating innovative products that empower our customers to grow.
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As a technology company in the global payments business, Mastercard operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.
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Monmouth University is an independent, comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship, and service. Through its offerings in liberal arts, science, and professional programs, Monmouth University educates and prepares students to realize their potential as leaders and to become engaged citizens in a diverse and increasingly interdependent world. Monmouth’s commitment to transformative learning is founded on three core principles: an intellectually challenging and rigorous academic experience built on a strong foundation in the liberal arts; learning experiences that are both immersive and that extend beyond the classroom; and preparation for life after Monmouth.
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Muziqueen’s mission is to provide quality music publishing services to help artists, songwriters, producers and musicians maximize the monetary potential of their music.
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Tourism is our business – the direct impact of the hospitality industry in Nashville is $3.5 billion annually with over 10 million visitors to Music City every year. The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau brands, sells and markets Nashville, Music City, to the world as a premier entertainment destination for travelers who seek authentic and unique leisure and convention experiences. Locals rarely see our work – they enjoy our results. Our staff consists of 43 full-time employees, 10 part-time employees and has a total of more than 455 years of hospitality industry experience. Our mission is to grow Nashville’s second-largest industry from $3 billion to $5 billion.
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In addition to monitoring radio airplays, online streaming and music consumer behavior, Nielsen is the authority in tracking what music people are buying both in-store and digitally. Nielsen compiles data from more than 39,000 retail outlets globally, to help record labels, publishers, artists, artist management and performance rights organizations understand what albums, singles and music videos people are buying, and where they’re buying them. On a weekly basis, Nielsen collects point-of-sale (POS) data in 19 countries across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Oceania. In the U.S. and Canada, physical and digital titles from venues, mass merchants, retail chains, independent record stores and digital download providers can be viewed by UPC, ISRC, artist, market, retailer type or genre. In Europe and Oceania, digital track and song sales are available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. For more than two decades, Nielsen’s sales tools have been a trusted and vital resource for companies that want a full picture of music sales, overall market performance and artist activity. Nielsen’s data serves as a major source for the Billboard charts and is widely cited by numerous publications and broadcasters as the standard for music industry measurement.
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Novobox manufactures high quality packaging and collector boxsets for dvd and blu ray, music clients, as well as for game companies . Novobox developped the patented futurepak metal casewhich is well recognised standard for high quality packaging for collector editions. Moreover Novobox serves the food and cosmetic companies by offering luxury board, wooden , leather and tin boxes and various kind of packaging.
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The world’s most successful brands turn to The NPD Group to know what is selling, who is buying, and why. We track more than a trillion dollars in consumer spending a year in the Americas, and more overseas. How?
The result is an extraordinary collection of information that we combine with nearly a half-century of industry expertise. That’s why NPD Group information is seen as the data of record in more than 20 industry sectors; and it’s why clients, media, the financial community and others see us as the authority on market size and trends in our industries.
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The National Performing Rights Exchange, NPREX, is a marketplace for direct licensing in music performing rights. Not a Performing Rights Organization, NPREX is a patent-pending platform for direct licensing between publishers and labels, on the one hand, and music broadcasters and streaming services, on the other.
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ONErpm (ONE Revolution People’s Music) is a digital distribution service and fan engagement platform founded in 2010 by Emmanuel Zunz and Matthew Olim. ONErpm delivers your music to YouTube is fast and free. Once delivered, your music is fingerprinted and then cross matched against all videos on YouTube.
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The Open Music Initiative is a non-profit initiative of leading academic institutions, music and media industry organizations, creators, technologists, entrepreneurs and policy experts who love and value music.
BerkleeICE prepares Berklee graduates for careers as entrepreneurs in the new music business; fosters the creation of new products, services, and businesses driving the changes in the creative industries of tomorrow; and inspires the advancement of disruptive ideas through the application of musical creativity and cross-discipline collaboration. Developing the entrepreneurial mindset among Berklee College of Music’s students, faculty, and alumni is at the heart of the mission of BerkleeICE.
The Open Music Initiative is funded by BerkleeICE.
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OpenPlay solutions power workflow and process management for some of the world’s largest entertainment companies. Our industry leading asset relationship management system, OpenPlay Music, manages media assets from point of creation through to delivery. Our suite of complimentary products, like OpenPlay Workflow and OpenPlay Rights, provides value up and down the digital supply chain, all seamlessly integrated and built to the same exacting standards.
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The Orchard is a pioneering independent film, TV and music distribution company that operates in over 25 global markets. The company, founded as a music distributor in 1997, is a groundbreaking leader in the film and television distribution space, known for its innovative technology that provides filmmakers with up-to-the minute trending data and analytics on their projects. The Orchard’s film division has enjoyed such recent successes as the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Cartel Land,” “The Overnight,” “Dior & I” and “What We Do in the Shadows.” Upcoming releases include Udi Aloni’s “Junction 48”, Antonio Campos’ “Christine,” Pablo Narrain’s “Neruda” and Oren Moverman’s “The Dinner.” The company is currently in theaters with Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville’s “The Music of Strangers,” Taika Waititi’s “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” and Roger Ross Williams’ “Life, Animated.”
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Pandora is the world’s most powerful music discovery platform – a place where artists find their fans and listeners find music they love. We are driven by a single purpose: unleashing the infinite power of music by connecting artists and fans, whether through earbuds, car speakers, live on stage or anywhere fans want to experience it. Our team of highly trained musicologists analyze hundreds of attributes for each recording which powers our proprietary Music Genome Project®, delivering billions of hours of personalized music tailored to the tastes of each music listener, full of discovery, making artist/fan connections at unprecedented scale. Founded by musicians, Pandora empowers artists with valuable data and tools to help grow their careers and connect with their fans.
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Prager Metis CPAs, LLC was formed in January, 2013 by the combination of Prager and Fenton, LLP and Metis Group, LLC—two highly-respected accounting firms who found their deep-rooted practices to be both philosophically and culturally complementary. Prager and Fenton has provided expert accounting and advisory services for nearly a century, focusing on the entertainment and music industry, professional practice firms, real estate groups, and private wealth individuals. Founded in 1987, Metis Group is known for their “team approach” to creating financial security for their clients, and provides a full range of accounting and tax services including forensic accounting, business and strategic planning, and litigation support. Today, Prager Metis is a Top 10 International firm and Top 100 US accounting firm, with over 40 partners and principals, more than 225 team members, and eight offices worldwide including New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles and London. Clients come to Prager Metis for the expert advice that protects and grows the value of their world—whether that world is local or extends across international markets. Prager Metis helps make Your World. Worth More.
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Project Music is the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s leading initiative to support innovation in the music industry through the entrepreneurial creation, launch and growth of music-driven startups. The initiative provides year-round support to music-minded entrepreneurs by connecting them to the critical community, curriculum, coaches and capital resources needed to turn ideas into realities. The initiative’s capstone is an annual 16-week tech focused accelerator.
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Quantone started in 2010 as Decibel Music Systems, to answer the need for digital music data. Digital music is great – digital metadata is “less great”. There’s the problem of completeness. It looks bad when the artist is listed as “Mozart”. There are alternate spellings, artist nicknames, different titles for the same piece, and of course, the question of languages. Individually, people and web sites do what’s “good enough”, but there’s a real need for people who really get it right.
Founder Evan Stein started life as a musicologist, but made his living in IT. He wrote investigation systems for the Manhattan DA (the real people behind Law and Order), and was Director of Application Development for Standard & Poor’s Europe. Looking at the digital music situation, he saw the benefits of technology from outside the music world: non-linear, linked searching, and a scalable, “normalized” world where data is seen from different angles. This is the technology used at Quantone.
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Based in Haw River, NC (near Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill), Redeye began in 1996 by focusing on the rich independent music of the southeast and providing the artists that made up the scene with a distribution option to give them access to all retail accounts located in their region. Since then, Redeye has charted a course of steady, sustainable growth by developing a strong physical and digital distribution network both nationally and internationally and providing a multitude of services to our partners.
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SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is a not-for-profit organization that represents the Canadian performing rights of millions of Canadian and international music creators and publishers. SOCAN is proud to play a leading role in supporting the long-term success of its more than 130,000 Canadian members, as well as the Canadian music industry. Through licenses, SOCAN gives businesses that use music the freedom to use any music they want, legally and ethically. SOCAN licenses more than 125,000 businesses coast to coast and distributes royalties to its members and peer organizations around the world. SOCAN also distributes royalties to its members for the use of Canadian music around the world in collaboration with its peer societies. In addition, SOCAN plays a leadership role in mentoring emerging creators on various aspects of the craft and business of music. We also advocate on behalf of our members to ensure that copyright is respected and that creators are appropriately remunerated for the use of their work.
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Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a current roster that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. It is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre, including Arista Nashville, Bazmark Records, Beach Street Records, Bystorm Entertainment, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Day 1, Descendant Records, Epic Records, Essential Records, Essential Worship, Flying Buddha, Fo Yo Soul Recordings, Freesolo Entertainment, Kemosabe Records, Latium Entertainment, Legacy Recordings, Louder Than Life, Masterworks, Masterworks Broadway, OKeh, Polo Grounds, Portrait, RCA Inspiration, RCA Nashville, RCA Records, Reunion Records, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Syco Music, Vested in Culture and Volcano. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Songspace helps music businesses and creators manage song catalogs, collaborate, send music and export data easily.
Combining features from Dropbox/Box, iTunes, GoogleDocs, Excel and SoundCloud in one product, Songspace streamlines workflows such as listening, leaving feedback, searching, creating playlists, and pitch tracking. All while simplifying advanced tasks like data exports, asset delivery and registration.
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SongSplits is FREE and easy to use for songwriters and music producers to create music publishing split agreements online. We currently help more than 30,000 songwriters and producers and more than 10,000 music publishing companies around the world to document and verify music publishing copyrights and synchronize that information with their managers, attorneys and performance rights societies. We proudly manage split data for some the world’s most influential writers and musicians including Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Dr. Luke, Pitbull, Lil Wayne, Drake, Kanye West, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, T.I., Mike Will Made It and many more.
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SoundExchange works at the center of digital music, developing business solutions to benefit the entire music industry. The organization collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 130,000 recording artists and master rights owners accounts and administers direct agreements on behalf of rights owners and licensees. To date, SoundExchange has paid out more than $4.5 billion in royalties. For more information, visit www.SoundExchange.com or www.facebook.com/soundexchange.
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Source3 is the world’s first platform for end-to-end management of intellectual property in user-generated content (UGC). We provide IP recognition, IP licensing and rights administration services to connect creators, marketplaces, and brands and enable monetization of user content across physical and digital products. Our team has built successful licensing platforms powering digital music, user-generated videos, and 3D printing. Source3 offers scalable, turn-key solutions for today’s global licensing challenges.
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Spotify brings you the right music for every moment – on computers, mobiles, tablets, home entertainment systems, cars, gaming consoles and more. Just search for music you love, or let Spotify play you something great. Create and listen to your playlists for free or subscribe to Premium for on-demand access at the highest audio quality – with zero ads.
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Strategic Financial Partners helps individuals, families, business owners and professionals develop expertly-tailored financial strategies. We provide the experience you need to use investment and insurance products confidently to create, preserve and distribute your wealth.
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Synchtank is the leading provider of IP license management software for synch to many of the sectors leading companies. The intuitive search, automatic scanning and workflow makes it quick and easy to manage the sales process and subsequent licensing. Their 0% commission. subscription fee model allows clients to make the most out of their investment.
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TGiT is a music metadata tagging eco-system designed for music creators, performers, publishers and record labels. The tool allows “content indexing at the source” for music to register properly into the digital value chain. Its an open source Windows and MAC desktop music tagger built with Python and available on BitBucket and a subscription based on-line export platform. We are the first ISO-ISNI public party name identifier registrar for the music industry. We allocate ISNI in real time. TGiT embeds over 50 metadata fields into FLAC or MP3 and transmits metadata to third party industry stakeholders using an expanding variety of private and linked data protocols and it logs your transmissions in a permanent journal. TGiT is also a bilingual media watch on Delicious, Scoop.it and under Twitter hashtag #musicmetadata
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Thirty Tigers is a Nashville-based entertainment company, founded in 2002 by Grammy Award-winning producer David Macias and Deb Markland. In just over a decade, Thirty Tigers has gone from two employees working out of Macias’s guest bedroom to thirty employees dispersed throughout offices in Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina and London. The company’s collective experience in the music industry ranges from record retail to the film industry to major labels.
Their marketing, distribution and management services have fostered success stories for a number of artists including Carlos Santana, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Trampled by Turtles, The Avett Brothers, Low, Ryan Bingham, Flogging Molly, Jason Isbell, The Josh Abbott Band, Chase Rice, Casey Donahew,The Eli Young Band, Will Hoge, Aaron Watson, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, and many others. In 2014, Thirty Tigers expanded services to include a publishing division in partnership with Wixen Music Publishing.
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TiVo is always innovating to create the ultimate entertainment experience. We touch the lives of binge-watching, music-loving, entertainment fanatics every day by delivering beautiful user experiences and enabling the world’s leading media and entertainment providers to nurture more meaningful relationships with their audiences.
Our technology inventions run deep – from the creation of the interactive program guide to the DVR – and we continue to revolutionize how people find content in a chaotic, fragmented media landscape. It’s this “content chaos” and insatiable demand for media and entertainment that keep us inspired – to create products and licensable technology that ultimately enable people to find and enjoy the TV, movies and music they love.
Through innovation, design, audience insights and customer dedication, we’re not only creating the next generation of entertainment. We’re creating the next generation of TiVo.
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.
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Warner Music Nashville was created in 2009 to expand the presence of WMG and its family of labels in Nashville. The division is home to Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records and Elektra Nashville.
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With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, East West, Elektra, Erato, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Bros., Warner Classics and Warner Music Nashville, as well as Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world’s leading music publishers, with a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
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You just finished a new record album, software program, learning course, video/movie or other original digital project. Now you need mass quantities of CDs or DVDs in great looking packages at a good price. We Make it Easy! Customers have a lot of choices for their CD or DVD duplication and packaging needs, but We Make Tapes & Discs continues to prove that you can get great looking disc packages of any quantity and quick turnaround at very reasonable prices.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. We represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm is nationally recognized for providing high-quality services to address the legal solutions required by its enterprise and financial institution clients. Our services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law, among other areas. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offices in Austin; Beijing; Boston; Brussels; Hong Kong; Los Angeles; New York; Palo Alto; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; Shanghai; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, DE.
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