Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Musical Chairs -- Week 26 2021

USA


Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter​ has appointed ​Kevin Amer as Acting General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights at the United States Copyright Office​, following the departure of ​General Counsel Regan Smith for the private sector​ after seven years with the Office. ​Amer, who joined the Office in 2013, was Deputy General Counsel. “Kevin has a wealth of experience, including as deputy general counsel, that make him well suited to serve as Acting General Counsel,” stated Perlmutter. “He has been instrumental in the Office’s successes on diverse and complex legal and policy issues, and I am looking forward to working with him in this new role.”

​Music licensing marketplace Songtradr has hired Amanda Schupf (pictured, below) as SVP of Global Creative to oversee its expanded global creative division. She will be in charge of artist and label services, music programming and curation and Songtradr's original music initiative. New York-based Schupf held previously A&R management positions at Imagem and Ingrooves Music Publishing. She most recently ran her own boutique management company MAX. In addition, former Spotify executive John Butler has been named Head of Music Programming and Curation, in charge of creating programming strategies to drive growth and adoption of Songtradr products. Butler reports to Schupf.
 

Motown Recordshas appointed Brian Nolan as Executive Vice President of the Universal Music Group label. He will also serve as EVP, Marketing, reporting to Motown Chairman & CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam. Nolan was EVP of UMG's Capitol Music Group (CMG), and Head of seventeenfifty.

CANADA

Canada's tech​ hub​ Elevate​​ has appointed​​ former Universal Music Canada and Bell Media executive Randy Lennox​​ as Executive Chair of the not-for-profit ​organisation. Effective September 1​​, Lennox ​will replace Elevate's Co-Founder and outgoing CEO​ Razor Suleman, ​who is joining Pacaso Internationa​l as President. ​Suleman will ​remain on the Elevate Board ​as ​Co-Chair​, alongside Co-Chair Commander Chris Hadfield. ​

UK

The ​UK's ​Music Managers Forum (MMF)​ ​online Annual General Meeting​ held July 1 elected​four new members were elected to the MMF board, while current Vice-Chair Kwame Kwaten (FerociousTalent) was re-elected as a board member. The new 2021 board members who will serve a fixed three-year term are: Adenike Durosaro​ (Big Drum Entertainment​), Ross Patel​(Whole Entertainment Group)​,​ Sandy Dworniak ​(This Much Talent / Twisted Talent​)​, ​and ​Karl Nielson (William OrbitMaeve)​. ​They replace the following board members who are stepping down at the end of their terms: Adam Tudhope​ (Everybody’s Management​),​ Lisa Ward​ (Red Light Management​), Ric Salmon​ (​ATC Management​) and​ Rachael Bee​ (iluvlive​). MMF CEO Annabella Coldrick​ said membership grew from 700 to more than 1,200 in two years​. ​

AUSTRALIA

Kim Williams, who has been Chair of Australia's Copyright Agency for the past six years, has stepped down to be replacedby Board Director Dr Kate Harrison (pictured, below). The former News Corp executive had been a board member since 2016, while Harrison joined the board in 2018 and and was chair of the Board’s Copyright Committee. Harrison is a partner at law firm Gilbert + Tobin. "Kate’s extensive management, legal and policy experience will be invaluable as the Copyright Agency continues to stand up for the rights of creators by licensing content, and advocate for policy settings that respect the rights of creators and support the production of Australian content," said Williams. The Copyright Agency collects fees and distributes royalties to creator members (authors, poets and playwrights, journalists, publishers, visual artists, photographers, cartoonists and illustrators) for the reuse of text and images. The leadership changes were announced as the organisation disclosed that it had distributed more than A$70 million of payments from ten different license sources in June 2021, making it its biggest payment month of the year.

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