Who Should Own the Future of Music? Music as an Asset Class: Funding the Future by Buying the Past
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Who Should Own the Future of Music? Music as an Asset Class: Funding the Future by Buying the Past
Speakers: Linnea Sundberg, Carlo Dinardo (Firebird), Charles O'Neill (Duetti)
Moderator: Gregor Pryor
Who Should Own the Future of Music?, Music as an Asset Class: Funding the Future by Buying the Past. Music publishing catalogues have become one of the most actively traded asset classes in the industry, with billions being paid to artists and estates by funds, investment vehicles and specialist buyers. The market has repriced since its 2021 peak, the public-fund experiment has given way to private capital, and a new wave of buyers are now reaching parts of the catalogue economy that mega funds never could, from fresh independent artists to dance-music heritage acts. This panel brings together the people buying, financing, and advising on music rights to ask the question underneath all of it: as music IP becomes a financial asset, who should own the future of music, and does selling a catalogue fund an artist's future creativity, or mortgage it forever?
The time of the event is still to be announced.
More speakers to be announced!
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