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PRS FOR MUSIC VENTURE BACKED BY FRESH FUNDING FROM 12 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES Global Repertoire Database on course for 2014


PUBLISHING  BY TIM INGHAM


T


he PRS-led Global Repertoire Database is anticipated to be


operational and stuffed with information from international publishers within two years. The GRD takes a starring


role in Richard Hooper’s new report on streamlining licensing in the UK, Copyright Works, in which he recommends the creation of an online Digital Copyright Exchange.


Hooper applauds the efforts


from PRS For Music with the GRD in the report, explaining that the music publishing information hub would aim to provide “access to authoritative, comprehensive multi-territorial information about the ownership or control of the global repertoire of musical works”. Writing in a submission to


Hooper’s report, Mark Isherwood investigates the progress of the Global Repertoire Database, and has good news.


He explains that a ‘scoping


study’ was undertaken in September last year, involving high-ranking members of the music publishing world. As a result, the four major


music publishers plus five music


seven more – ASCAP (US), BUMA-STEMRA (Holland), SABAM (Belgium), SGAE (Spain), SIAE (Italy), SOCAN (Canada) and UBC (Brazil) – have all committed to funding the operation.


assessments and data strategy, data standards and schemas, GRD business design and set-up and the technology blueprint. This phase should be completed in Q2 2013. An operational GRD is then anticipated to be


Global Recordings Database. He reveals this has already seen 8,500 labels deliver data for over 5.6 million recordings. Hooper’s recommendations


to Government have been welcomed by the likes of UK Music, PPL, PRS, the MMF and the FAC. “I am pleased that the report


recognises the UK industry’s achievement in licensing more legitimate digital music services than any other country in the world,” Universal Music UK CEO and chairman David Joseph told Music Week. “This is a testament to the


rights society groups – APRA (Australia), GEMA (Germany), PRS For Music (UK), SACEM (France) and STIM (Sweden)– have agreed to make their musical works data available for the first phase of GRD. In addition, those five societies plus


Isherwood reports: “In the


next few weeks work will begin on a requirements and High Level GRD design phase of work. The activities within this phase will need to span across business requirements, rules and participant readiness, data


available in Q2 2014, although there will be a long period of the loading of data from participants. A GRD with some data from the above organisations should be available by the end of 2014.” Hooper also applauds PPL’s efforts with its less-publicised


collective efforts which have already been made to streamline an inevitably complex process. “The Copyright Exchange should help further and if it also provides some additional impetus for the government in terms of encouraging search engines, ISPs and others to foster legal uses of copyright material then so much


the better." Turn to page 18 for our full analysis of Hooper’s report


Cooking Vinyl grows team with two new hires as it launches sync division


K


aris Beckingham has been recruited by the Cooking Vinyl Group to head up a


newly launched synchronisation department at the indie. She is joined at the company


by Allie Bailey, who assumes the product manager role for Cooking Vinyl Records after five years at Atlantic. As head of synchronisation,


Beckingham will procure syncs for Cooking Vinyl Records artists and Cooking Vinyl Publishing writers. Before she was hired at


Cooking Vinyl, the exec joined Huge Music in 2008 as music supervisor after a stint running her own tour booking and promotions company. Two years later, she left to work with the


likes of Pedigree Cuts, BMG Chrysalis and The Brits. Beckingham has already


gained sync deals for The Enemy on the new FIFA 13 soundtrack and The Prodigy in the opening episode of Series 2 of MTV’s Teen Wolf. Meanwhile, Bailey’s new role


will involve the creation of campaigns for artists including Amanda Palmer, Marilyn Manson, The Blackout, Reverend and the Makers, The Enemy and The Prodigy. Bailey worked at Atlantic for


five years in product management for artists The Joy Formidable, The Streets, Jason Mraz, James Blunt, Fanfarlo, Grouplove and Flo Rida - not to mention the quadruple-platinum selling


double Brit award-winning artist Ed Sheeran. Beckingham said, “I’m pretty excited to be working with such a great independent label as Cooking Vinyl. “The experience I gained at Huge has been really valuable in pitching creatively to clients, understanding the creative process and using this to benefit both them and our artists. I’m looking forward to building up the sync area here and adding to Cooking Vinyl’s success story”. Bailey added: “I am so thrilled


to be a part of the Cooking Vinyl family. I have long been a fan of the label’s roster and am very much looking forward to working with such a hugely talented and diverse range of artists."


New faces: Karis Beckingham (left) and Allie Bailey (right)


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