By Emmanuel Legrand
Canadian independent rights administration and creative services music company CCS Rights Management has launched a new music publishing division, Daytripper Music Publishing, as a stand-alone brand dedicated to the creative development of established and up-and-coming artists and songwriters.
Daytripper's first signing is songwriter, producer and composer Hill Kourkoutis (pictured, below), who joins a roster of songwriters and artists such as Tribe Friday, Featurette, POESY, Nuela Charles, CARYS, Yukon Blonde, Laurent Bourque, and Mikhail Laxton, that have moved from CCS to Daytripper.
Daytripper will rely on CCS for global administration, synchronisation, and licensing services. Both companies are based in Toronto, Canada.
Daytripper's first signing is songwriter, producer and composer Hill Kourkoutis (pictured, below), who joins a roster of songwriters and artists such as Tribe Friday, Featurette, POESY, Nuela Charles, CARYS, Yukon Blonde, Laurent Bourque, and Mikhail Laxton, that have moved from CCS to Daytripper.
Daytripper will rely on CCS for global administration, synchronisation, and licensing services. Both companies are based in Toronto, Canada.
Put value in every copyright
CCS Rights Management was founded 10 years ago by Jodie Ferneyhough (pictured, below) after he left Universal Music Publishing Canada where he served as MD. His goal was to position CCS as an alternative to big conglomerates and target independent artists and offer them global services.
"We started with a modest loan and we are now looking after 150,000 titles and employing eight people," Ferneyhough told Creative Industries Newsletter. "We look after the rights of writers and artists. Every copyright has value for us. We have grown the administrative portion of the company and I felt that we were losing our appeal from the creative side."
Growth in neighbouring rights management
One area of development for CCS has been the rise of neighbouring rights management on a global basis, for which CCS has a dedicated staff. New opportunities have come up in this sector following the signing of the US-Canada and Mexico trade agreement, as Canada was bound by the terms of the treaty to end the notion of national treatment applied to US artists, which was in force because the US does not have performance rights on sound recordings for terrestrial radio.
Ferneyhough has been reaching out to US labels, performers and managers to explain that Canada will now pay neighbouring rights to US performers and labels. "We tell them that we understand the system and we know how to collect their royalties," he said. "It's become an important side of our business."
Regarding Daytripper, Ferneyhough said that after ten years at the helm of CCS, he felt the need to set up a specific unit for the development of creative projects and be the front-facing side of his activities.
"We keep the same spirit: we are just offering artists their own home and identity," he said. "This is their creative pod. I did not want to mix it with CCS, but they will get the same services, except that at Daytripper we will just put the focus on writers and artists, and help them develop. Our business is based on songs, and nurturing songwriters is important. And it's a long-term game."
Jordan Howard, Creative/ A&R Director at CCS, added: “We have steadily developed an outstanding roster of artists and songwriters, while also growing other aspects of what the CCS offers, so we wanted to create a separate ‘home’ that emphasises all their world class talent. And now, proudly, Daytripper is that home.”
For his business, Ferneyhough applies a mix of old-school music publishing with a 21st Century focus on efficiency and technology. "We want to be a very accessible company, where it's about working for the artists on their creative projects and not just on catalogue," he explained. "We are not exclusively after Canadian artists, we fancy ourselves as a worldwide company. We are investing in other territories."
Ferneyhough said the label is a tribute to his sister who died in the spring following a battle with ALS. The company was named after the Beatles' song, which was the No.1 single on the week his sister was born in 1966. "This is my way to honour her and keep her memory alive," he said.
CCS Rights Management was founded 10 years ago by Jodie Ferneyhough (pictured, below) after he left Universal Music Publishing Canada where he served as MD. His goal was to position CCS as an alternative to big conglomerates and target independent artists and offer them global services.
CCS has affiliations with many collective management organisation in the world and works with a networks of 18 sub-publishers around the world. CCS handles publishing as well as recording rights.
In Canada, Ferneyhough is a member of the Music Publishers' Association and is a member of the advisory committee of mechanical rights agency CMRRA. He has also been a board member of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) since 2013.
"We started with a modest loan and we are now looking after 150,000 titles and employing eight people," Ferneyhough told Creative Industries Newsletter. "We look after the rights of writers and artists. Every copyright has value for us. We have grown the administrative portion of the company and I felt that we were losing our appeal from the creative side."
Growth in neighbouring rights management
One area of development for CCS has been the rise of neighbouring rights management on a global basis, for which CCS has a dedicated staff. New opportunities have come up in this sector following the signing of the US-Canada and Mexico trade agreement, as Canada was bound by the terms of the treaty to end the notion of national treatment applied to US artists, which was in force because the US does not have performance rights on sound recordings for terrestrial radio.
Ferneyhough has been reaching out to US labels, performers and managers to explain that Canada will now pay neighbouring rights to US performers and labels. "We tell them that we understand the system and we know how to collect their royalties," he said. "It's become an important side of our business."
Regarding Daytripper, Ferneyhough said that after ten years at the helm of CCS, he felt the need to set up a specific unit for the development of creative projects and be the front-facing side of his activities.
A long-term game
"We keep the same spirit: we are just offering artists their own home and identity," he said. "This is their creative pod. I did not want to mix it with CCS, but they will get the same services, except that at Daytripper we will just put the focus on writers and artists, and help them develop. Our business is based on songs, and nurturing songwriters is important. And it's a long-term game."
Jordan Howard, Creative/ A&R Director at CCS, added: “We have steadily developed an outstanding roster of artists and songwriters, while also growing other aspects of what the CCS offers, so we wanted to create a separate ‘home’ that emphasises all their world class talent. And now, proudly, Daytripper is that home.”
For his business, Ferneyhough applies a mix of old-school music publishing with a 21st Century focus on efficiency and technology. "We want to be a very accessible company, where it's about working for the artists on their creative projects and not just on catalogue," he explained. "We are not exclusively after Canadian artists, we fancy ourselves as a worldwide company. We are investing in other territories."
Ferneyhough said the label is a tribute to his sister who died in the spring following a battle with ALS. The company was named after the Beatles' song, which was the No.1 single on the week his sister was born in 1966. "This is my way to honour her and keep her memory alive," he said.
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