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 MMG Turk, the joint initiative between Media Men Group and the Turkish publishing company Pelikan Muzik celebrates one year of its activity. To date MMG Turk represents Budde Music, Bug Music, Dartmoor Music, EM TV Musikverlag, French Fried Music, Just Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd, Rocket Racing Rebels Publ., Strictly Confidential, Termidor Musikverlag and Unicade Publishing. "This is the beginning", says Aharon Gefen, Chairman of Media Men Group, "Our goal is to extend all our current agreements in Israel to Turkey and make sure that Israeli titles will be used by Turkish performers and that Turkish writers will get all their royalties from exploitations of Turkish copyrights in Israel". Nur Turan, co-founder of Pelikan Muzik, underlines that "Since one year, we are thrilled to see not only the growth of the catalogues administered by MMG Turk, but also the approach of Media Men Group and Pelikan Muzik to conduct the business of music publishing in a professional way and having fun at the same time" "Our joint venture in Turkey is the first step in our plans to create a gateway to the Mediterranean area and the Middle East. We will soon be active in Greece, Egypt and Dubai and the United Arab Emirates", says Ran Geffen Co-CEO of MMG, we believe that peace and cooperation can be achieved by the language of music. "We are looking forward to seeing our Arab and Greek friends on board, and hope to add royalties of musical works as an important item to the regional trade flow" adds Selim Kaynak, Co-founder of Pelikan Muzik. |
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 Acum have chosen MMG as the Beta tester of its new online registration system for the foreign repertoire. The system will enable music publishers to notify Acum electronically about new additions to the catalogue and follow up on registrations that were sent from the day of notification until the registration has been completed by Acum's documentation department. The system will be used by MMG's copyright team who will test the system and make suggestions to improve the system before it will be made available to other publishers in Israel. "We are proud to be Acum's choice", said Tamar Ventura CEO at MMG, "we hope that our work with Acum will improve the flow of information and speed up the registration of foreign copyrights. |
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 Following the addition of new staff to the MMG team we would like to share with you the new structure of our Copyright and Income Tracking teams. Natasha Kopylov, formely the Head of the Publishing team at Acum, was named team leader and will assume the responsibility for the AV tracking team. Natasha will control the copyright hub for the catalogues that have multi territorial deals with MMG and the Russian catalogues that are represented in Israel by MMG. Avi Tzabha will assume the position as head of the Latin Desk. Avi was born in Panama and speaks Spanish and Portuguese and has a vast knowledge in Latin copyrights. Maureen Lang, Head of the Copyright Dept., will continue to supervise her copyright team and manage the relations with the Sync departments of the publishers represented by MMG. Oded Fried-Gaon heads our music supervision team. Oded, an Israeli-American, is a musician and composer who specializes in scoring and consulting. Oded studied music and communications at Temple University, and has vast experience in performance and composition. He has done writing and consulting for Film, TV and Advertisement. MMG will launch its Arabic copyright desk at the beginning of 3rd quarter of 2007. |
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