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Francis Dreyfus Music is the leading French independent music company and a recording company founded in 1970 by Francis Dreyfus and headquartered in Paris (France).
The Dreyfus catalogue (Disques Motors, FDM, Dreyfus Jazz), includes the publishing and master rights of iconic French artists such as Christophe, whose classic songs include “Les mots bleus”, “Aline”, “Succes fou”, “Les Paradis Perdus”, and Jean-Michel Jarre including his hit albums “Oxygène”, “Équinoxe” and “Chants Magnétiques”.

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Established in 1986 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry, Big Life Management has shaped the careers of a multitude of successful artists. With an unfaltering desire to stick to “getting the music right, and the rest will follow” Big Life has been instrumental in the successes of artists as diverse as Lisa Stansfield, The Verve, Coldcut, La Roux, The Futureheads, Klaxons and Snow Patrol.

The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as “Scream”, “Spy Kids” and “Scary Movie”.

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Grundy UFA is the German market leader in the field of daily drama and telenovela. The production company’s core business is long-term programme brands made for private and public broadcasters.

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R2M Music was founded by former Sony/ATV Music Publishing executives Paul Russell, Richard Rowe and Phil May in 2006. The assets sold by R2M Music pursuant to the transaction include the LeFrak catalogue, the catalogue of one of Germany’s most renowned rock bands, Die Toten Hosen, and the music publishing assets of former Transcontinent Musikverlag GmbH, including rights to an extensive German Schlager music catalogue.

Turner is the leading U.S. multi-channel operator in Latin America. With some 130 branded channels in 27 languages in more than 200 countries, Turner’s global business is strong and continuing to build scale by leveraging the value of existing brands and making strategic regional acquisitions. CNN is the #1 English-language news brand around the world. In 2010, Turner made three major acquisitions to expand the global portfolio, Imagine in India, the Millennium Media Group in the Nordic region and Chilevisión in Chile.

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Senator Entertainment based in Berlin is a media conglomerate that produces and co-produces TV and theatrical product, as well as acquiring and exploiting rights to completed films in all stages of the distribution chain, i.e. theatrical, DVD, TV and the multiple internet platforms in a global and all-encompassing fashion. Since 1995 Senator Entertainment have released and distributed such films as “Bang Boom Bang”, “Der Vorleser”, “Chocolat – Ein kleiner Biss genügt”, “Das Wunder von Bern”, “Merry Christmas”, “Wo ist Fred?”, “Superhero Movie” and many more.

The Adage Group specializes in the acquisition of intellectual property rights with a focus on music publishing and licensing. Over the last fifteen years The Adage Group has acquired, conducted financial analysis of, or sold catalogs comprised of some of the most important copyright in music.

The Adage IV catalog consists of 501 compositions, among them 14 hit songs spanning over the last 60 years from doo-wop to pop to country repertoire. Among the iconic classics are the 1950’s hits “Stay” originally recorded by Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs , “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”, originally a hit for early New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers in 1956, and “Little Darlin’” written by Maurice Williams. Other iconic classics included are “Let’s Go Get Stoned” and “I Don’t Need No Doctor” performed by Ray Charles.

Perfect Pitch, although a small independent music publisher, has developed a sizable local and international catalogue, offering a wide range of material from Ambient Chill to Pop to Rock, Jazz to Latin, Russian Military Marches to Indonesian trad music and even Death Metal. Always evolving, reinventing and rejuvenating and currently represents in excess of 10,000 copyrights.

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Munich based songwriter and producer Armin Pertl has worked so far with German Schlager stars such as Nicole Nicole, Wolfgang Petry, Andy Borg, Michelle, Ireen Sheer, Roberto Blanco, Bernhard Brink, Dieter Landuris as well as Extrabreit, Lou Bega, Bro’Sis (RTL II Popstars), Ambra and Avenue songwriter/producer team Martin, Giorgio, Gabi and Suna Koppehele. His compositions are featured on T-Mobile, Television (Super RTL, National Geographic) and in children’s TV series.

Walden Media specializes in entertainment and family films, past award-winning films include: “The Chronicles of Narnia” series, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island,” “Charlotte’s Web” and the Sundance Audience Prize Winning documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman.’” Upcoming films include the family adventure “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” drama “Won’t Back Down,” Jay Moriarity biopic “Of Men and Mavericks” and the family comedy “Parental Guidance.”

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Klanggold (former Koch Music Publishing/Alpenpop Catalog) was founded in 1978 and is one of today’s most successful and largest German Schlager and Volksmusik catalogues in the world. The catalog primarily includes hits of wellknown Schlager artists such as Die Kastelruther Spatzen, Semino Rossi, Brunner & Brunner, DJ Ötzi as well as some pop artists and writers such as Christina Stürmer and Andreas Gabalier.

The catalogue contains all songs of the greatest singer ever considered to be a “Rock and Roll artist.”

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BMG represents the publishing rights to the HKM catalogue, including most of the publishing rights to Die Toten Hosen’s albums In aller Stille (2008), Zurück zum Glück (2004), Auswärtsspiel (2002), Unsterblich (1999), Wir warten aufs Christkind  (1998) and as well as other songs from the most iconic German rock band.

The LeFrak catalog combines a great selection of publishing and master rights generated over the last 40 years, with over seven #1 pop hits, seven #1 R&B/Rap hits and over 35 top-ten charting songs. Le Frak includes songs by top artists like Diana Ross, 2Pac, ABBA, Eminem, Whitney Houston, The 5th Dimension, Jim Croce, Neil Sedaka, Snoop Dogg, Beastie Boys, Beyonce, Celine Dion, Coolie, Will Smith, Faith Hill, Kid Rock, En Vogue, The 5th Dimension, Ice Cube and Barbra Streisand.

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These master rights from the LeFrak Catalogue are co-owned by BMG along with Lastrada Entertainment and combine more than 500 master rights. Including Jim Croce’s masters sub-catalogue with songs like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”, “Time In A Bottle”, “I Got A Name” and “Operator” it also features recordings back from 1990 such as “Because I Love You”, “Spring Love” and “In My Eyes” by Stevie B, as well as a series of iconic master recordings such as “Take The ‘A’ Train”, “In A Sentimental Mood”, “Mood Indigo” and “Satin Doll” by Duke Ellington and “Proud Mary” by Ike & Tina Turner.

The Transcontinent Catalog by Jack White combines more than 800 German folk songs including smash hits like ‘Der Anton aus Tirol’, ‘Die Gefühle haben Schweigepflicht’ and ‘Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin.’

FS Media Holdings is an amazing catalogue consisting of 3 main parts. Firstly, the original Dimensional/Dreamworks catalogue containing songs by The Byrds, John Denver, Papa Roach, Lifehouse as well as songs such as “Take The A Train” Billy Strayhorn, “Back In Baby’s Arms” Patsy Cline, “Disco Inferno” The Trampps, “Afternoon Delight” Starland Vocal Band, “The Thong Song” Sisqo, “Day-O” Harry Belafonte, “Monster Mash” Bobby Pickett to name but a few.

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DreamWorks Animation LLC is an American animation studio which primarily produces a series of commercially successful computer-animated films, including “Shrek”, “Shark Tale”, “Madagascar”, “Over the Hedge”, “Bee Movie”, “Kung Fu Panda”, “Monsters vs. Aliens”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, and “Megamind”. Most of its computer-generated films and television series have now gained the studio a reputation for being focused on popular culture and satire.

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Cy Coleman is the iconic American songwriter. He is best-known for his writing of theater scores. He has won four Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and two Grammy Awards. Many of his songs have become standards, and have been recorded and performed by such well-known artists as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown, Tony Bennett and many more.

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Since 1984, Ten Ten Music Group, Inc. has established itself as the number one independent music publisher in Nashville. Founded by Barry and Jewel Coburn, Ten Ten Management (credited with launching country superstar Alan Jackson’s career) and Ten Ten Music Group (with catalogs from over thirty-five staff writers) have both been successful endeavors for the Coburns. With a catalog that boasts over 700 cuts, Ten Ten Music Group is on very solid footing but has never stopped striving to foster the creation of meaningful and commercially successful music through partnerships with talented and successful artists and songwriters.

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Six Palms Music and Third Story Music catalogues – both acquired by Fuji Entertainment America in the end of 2008 – include classic compositions by Tom Waits (“Ol ’55,” “Tom Traubert’s Blues,” “I Hope that I Don’t Fall in Love With You”), Alice Cooper (“School’s Out” and “Eighteen”), Fred Neil (“Everybody’s Talkin’”), as well as “Hey Joe” (as recorded by Jimi Hendrix and countless others), and 1800 additional major copyrights.

Since 1948, the Arc Music Group had been one of the leading independent music publishers focusing on American music. Our catalog is a unique treasure of some of the most famous, classic and influential songs in Rock ’n’ Roll, R&B, Gospel, Big Band, Jazz and Surf music. Songs like ”Who Do You Love”, ”Susie Q”, ”Pipeline”, ”Boom Boom”, ”Bright Lights Big City”, “You Never Can Tell (C’est La Vie)”, ”Surfin´ USA”, “Duke of Earl” are just a small assortment of the great songs in the catalog.

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For the last 15 years, Gérald De Palmas has been one of France’s major artists and songwriters.

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Pressing Line publishing company is owned and identified with Lucio Dalla, one of Italy’s biggest music symbols.

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Dutch record label Armada doesn’t really need an introduction. But to be sure you know where they come from and where this diverse and steady growing record company is heading for in the future, here’s a few facts that deserve your attention.

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UFA is one of Germany’s oldest and most distinguished entertainment brands, with an artistic heritage of films like ‘Metropolis’, ‘The Blue Angel’ and the films of German Expressionism. Today, UFA is a highly efficient group of production companies, which has continuously extended its market leadership as a film and television producer in Germany over the past few years.

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Nothing is more exciting than reality: real people, real emotions touch and move the viewers, That’s exactly what UFA Entertainment is specialized in. The experienced programme makers produce reality and show, infotainment and factual entertainment for RTL, Sat.1, VOX, RTL II, kabel eins, MTV, VIVA, Deutsche Welle and ATV in Austria.

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UFA Cinema, founded at the beginning of 2008, stands for a broad range of commercial cinema.

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With more than 140 productions to its name, teamWorx Television & Film GmbH is one of Germany’s foremost TV producers and the European market leader in event productions. The company was founded in 1998 by Nico Hofmann, executive producer and Management Chairman, Ariane Krampe, executive producer and Deputy Managing Director, and Wolf Bauer, Managing Director of the UFA.

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In the years 1991 to 1997, Steffen Britzke, Matthias Hoffmann and Ralf Hildenbeutel lived an exciting period creating and producing the innovative sound of the dance label Eye Q Records.

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GRUNDY Light Entertainment is an independent producer of entertainment formats for German broadcasters. The core business of the company covers the development and production of various genres of entertainment shows.

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All-time classics in the Perfect Songs catalogue include “Relax” and “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood – two of the most notorious and talked-about pop hits of the eighties. Timeless ballads like the Grammy Award-winning “Kiss From A Rose” by Seal, Frankie’s “The Power of Love”, and “Dreams” and “Sunshine” by Gabrielle (singer). And “Beatbox”, “Close” (To The Edit) and “Moments in Love” by the Art of Noise – two of the most sampled songs in history.

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RoastingHouse has tremendous success in Asia and Japan with the biggest Japanese pop acts selling millions of records the past few years which makes them one of the most important international publishers in Japan, but is now expanding and putting their focus to the European market again as well.

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ABC is an entertainment company which offers open and honest service to artists whilst providing them with a wide spectrum of services. We feel that making music is something special but getting that music to the people is important too. And that is what we as ABC Entertainment specialize in. Our team has had years of experience in the entertainment industry and was lucky to be at the career start of a few National and International artists. We are a one-stop shop for artists but also for companies interested in working with these artists.

CRC Jianian/EverGreen publish and distribute CRC’s historical catalog that features the largest collection of traditional Chinese ethnic, instrumental, opera and folk music, spanning some 5,000 years of Chinese musical history.

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