#9.1.2024

[puregrief]

"كان ياما كان الحب مالي بيتنا ومدفّينا الحنان.

زارنا الزمان، سرق منّا فرحتنا والراحة والأمان.

حبيبي كان هنا مالي الدنيا عليّا بالحب والهنا!

حبيبي يا أنا يا أغلى من عينيّا، نسيت مين أنا؟

أنا الحب اللي كان، اللي نسيته أوام من قبل الأوان.

نسيت اسمي كمان، نسيت، يا سلام على غدر الإنسان!

والله زمان يا هوى زمان!"

[louisupdates]

Taylor-made deals: how artists are following Swift’s rights example

The singer’s public fight over ownership of her work has lit the way for a new generation of musicians – especially young women – demanding

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There are two kinds of rights at stake here: the rights to the master recordings of an artist’s work, and songwriting rights, known as publishing. One senior music publishing executive says their part of the business was ahead of the curve, explaining that publishing deals tend to work on exclusive licensing terms or retention periods. “Publishers pivoted from a rights-ownership business to the servicing of rights,” they say. Those retention periods are getting shorter, they add, down from about 25 years three decades ago to between 12 and 15 years today.

Message says he steers acts away from ownership-based contracts. “We have a default position that we won’t advise our artists to do life-of-copyright deals,” he says. “It’s not that we wouldn’t do them, but our strong advice would always be to come up with a licence arrangement of some description.”

This is the ideological underpinning of BMG and AWAL (Artists Without a Label), which is now under the ownership of Sony Music Entertainment. “The philosophy is flipping the relationship,” says Alistair Norbury, president of repertoire and marketing at BMG UK. “There had to be a fairer and more transparent way to work with the creative community.”

Acts on BMG’s roster – notably Kylie Minogue, Suede, Sigur Rós and Louis Tomlinson – are on licensing or assignment deals, so ownership of the recordings eventually reverts to them. “They want to be with a record label where they have creative control and ownership coming back to them at some point,” says Norbury.

AWAL sings from a similar hymn sheet. “AWAL emerged to help what we now call ‘independent artists’ to remain independent,” says Paul Hitchman, the company’s global COO. “Independent in the sense of owning their rights and retaining control over their career, but without having to compromise in terms of the expertise and support they can tap into, without having to compromise on the global reach and success that they can achieve.”

Norbury believes that, with more choices for acts, music companies have to repeatedly prove their worth and think about mutual gains rather than offering one-sided deals that are land grabs for all the rights. He says, “You want something successful in a long-term partnership rather than owning something that failed.”

In light of all this, the majors increasingly have to offer more flexible deal terms. They are also heavily investing in other artist and label services companies to gain a share of the boom in DIY and independent acts. Sony owns Awal and the Orchard. UMG has both Virgin Music Label & Artist Services and Ingrooves. Warner Music Group has Ada.

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[Ed.: Louis Tomlinson’s licensing deal is with BMG. His publishing is through LT Publishing administered by Kobalt Music Group. This article implies that all rights for masters and publishing belong to Louis, and are licensed for a contracted period to BMG.]

[Ed.: In the second quarter of 2024, BMG has switched to in-house digital distribution and download services, and changed partners for physical distribution from Warner to UMG.]

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson has added new gifs to GIPHY.

[louisupdates]

John Delf, sound engineer for Louis Tomlinson’s tour, posted Louis’ plaque of recognition for LTWT22 to Instagram story [jdelf, 9.1.2024]. Helene Horlyck and Krupa had posted the same earlier.

[louisupdates]

vateruk @steve_durham plays with Vater's Power 3As on the road with Louis Tomlinson

A longer version of the top-selling 3A model for added reach and ability to "choke up" on the stick.

Length 16 5/8" | 42.23cm

Grip 0.600" | 1.52cm

#VaterDrumsticks #drumlife #vaterdrumsticks #percussion #vatersticks #switchtovater #drumming #vater #drums #artist

[Steve Durham, drummer for Louis Tomlinson’s band, is featured in Vater UK’s Instagram post, 9.1.2024]

via Steve’s Instagram story

[crushedlittlestarx]

yay

[prosy-days]

January 9, 2024 - Day 204

Showed off my new beret at our book club.

[tatmanblue]

EDDA SPHYNX 04626 prb20- by Andreas Muhl Via Flickr: Multi Purpose Offshore Vessel, NOK Burg 09.01.2024.