Licensing Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Whip Media Group — formed by TV Time’s acquisition of Mediamorph last year — closed a new tranche of $50 million in funding that the company claims will let it build unprecedented tools for determining the value of TV show and movies in the global entertainment market.

Global Music Rights has filed a motion to disallow what it calls an "intrusion" by the National Assn. of Broadcasters over the NAB's friend of the court brief on behalf of the Radio Music Licensing Committee.

LONDON — Merlin has signed a global licensing deal with TikTok, the massively popular video-sharing app.

The months-long search for a Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) leader is over. The board has selected music executive Kris Ahrend as CEO of the organization, which was designated by the U.S.

MUMBAI — Nearly a year after its launch here, Spotify announced that it has signed a multi-territory licensing agreement with Warner Chappell Music, which includes India.

Seven years ago, when Simon Sollberger was launching the online health/fitness coaching app Pear Sports, record labels wouldn’t play. It was impossible to license music to accommodate cross-fades between songs, and snippets of tracks that could be jumbled into a workout were out of the question.

TikTok owner ByteDance has brought on an insider to lead its record label licensing efforts as the company works through contract negotiations that have been ongoing since April.  Following the hiring of former Warner Music Group executive Ole Obermann as vp and global h

Taylor Swift’s battle with Scooter Braun and Big Machine Records continues to rage, but in the meantime she’s taking control by declining requests to use her music for commercial purposes. In a new interview with Billboard declaring her the Woman of the Decade, Swift explained that she’s been rejecting all sync licensing requests (covering the use of her music in films, tv shows, and commercials) since Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings purchased her master recordings earlier this year.