Grateful Dead's Ice Nine Signs Publishing Deal With Warner Chappell

"It’s an honour to get to work with such an incredible team"

By Denise Petski

Wellesley Wild, known for his work as a writer and producer on “Family Guy,” has inked an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Animation.

CNCO has signed a global music publishing agreement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. The multi-year deal covers the group’s catalog of current and future songs, Billboard can confirm. 

After signing pacts with Altice’s SFR in August and Free in October, Amazon Prime Video has scored a distribution deal with another leading French telco group, Bouygues Telecom.

By Mike Fleming Jr

It’s not a soundtrack one would expect to be affiliated with the NFL, but during the regular season, and even more so throughout the playoffs, the music of Phish has been used in multiple bumpers heading into commercial breaks on Fox.

Warner Chappell Music has signed Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor -- the award-winning songwriter and producer who has collaborated with Drake (Views), Shakira (El Dorado) and more -- to a global co-publishing agreement. 

De La Ghetto has signed a global publishing administration deal with peermusic, Billboard has learned. The deal includes his future work and the entire back catalog.The announcement was made Thursday morning (Jan.

The ongoing legal showdown between Peloton and music publishers dealt a small but important blow to the exercise bike company. On Wednesday, a federal judge shot down a counterclaim filed by Peloton alleging that the trade group had conspired to interfere in their discussions with various publishing companies. Underlying the case is the notion that Peloton, in not properly licensing all of the music played on its exercise streaming platform, had committed copyright infringement.

Kristin Burr— the Disney veteran whose credits include Sweet Home Alabama, The Prestige andThe Muppets— has signed a multi-year, overall deal with Lionsgate.Under Burr! Productions banner, Burr will develop and produced features, having already set up dark comedy MILK— aka Mother I'd Like to Kill— from10 Cloverfield Lane director DanTrachtenberg.

Kobalt today announced that it has signed Lewis Capaldi to an international neighboring rights deal. The Capitol recording artist was previously represented by PPL for international collections.

Beyoncé has reportedly signed an exclusive publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, according to Variety.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has signed a voiceover deal with Disney, with the studio making a donation to an elephant charity in return.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is moving from HBO to Apple TV+. 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, of “Veep” and “Seinfeld” fame, has inked an overall deal with Apple TV Plus to develop new projects exclusively for the platform as executive producer and star.

The Toronto International Film Festival is jumping on the FilmFreeway submissions platform.The prestigious festival has inked a three-year exclusive deal with the Canadian startup to handle all films submitted to its annual September event. Submissions for the 2020 edition of TIFF will officially open Feb.