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		<title>Alexandre Desplat masterclass at Cannes 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Composer Alexandre Desplat has a number of films running at the Cannes Film Festival 2012, notably &#8220;Moonrise Kingdom&#8221; and &#8220;Rust &#38; Bone&#8221;. He has been called a worthy successor to the French masters of film music such as Delerue, Duhamel, Jarre and Legrand. His scores for &#8220;Read my Lips/Sur me slèvres&#8221; and &#8220;The Prophet&#8221; directed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/05/alexandre-desplat-masterclass-cannes-201/</link>
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		<title>European music writers denounce &#8220;coercion&#8221; from producers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ECSA, the European Composer &#038; Songwriter Alliance, has denounced the coercion that composers face from TV and film producers in February 2012. To participate in the revenue stream, many producers are demanding the publishing rights of music &#8211; and sometimes the total copyright &#8211; before using writers. In the above video, John Groves talks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/03/european-music-writers-denounce-coercion-from-producers/</link>
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		<title>Strictly Confidential scores with The artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strictly Confidential, one of Europe’s leading music publishers, represents the music of the film “The Artist” worldwide, as part of its publishing collaboration with Thomas Langmann’s French production company LA PETITE REINE. After notable international successes with films such as “Asterix &#38; Obelix at the Olympics” and “Mesrine”, “The Artist” has been beating records for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/02/strictly-confidential-scores-with-the-artist/</link>
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		<title>SESAC reportedly up for sale, lowers price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Post is reporting that the smallest of the US performing rights societies, SESAC, is up for sale again. Whereas the asking price was $700 million some time ago, it has now reportedly dropped to $500 million. This sets the price at about ten years of annual profit, currently $50 million  year. SESAC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/02/sesac-reportedly-up-for-sale-lowers-price/</link>
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		<title>Nordic rights collection societies join forces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an unusual move but interesting move, three Nordic rights collecting societies &#8211; KODA, TONO and TEOSTO &#8211; announced at Midem 2012 that they are joining forces to share the back-end for their IT services. The goal is to reduce processing costs while meeting the needs of their respective members. Since 2008, Denmark&#8217;s KODA and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/01/nordic-rights-collection-societies-join-forces/</link>
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		<title>Midem Pitch Session 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Midem trade fair in Cannes features a number of pitch sessions. Advertisers such as EuroRSCG and Ogilvy provided briefings for upcoming campaigns. On the TV front, music supervisors for NBCUniversal were overwhelmed by the response to one pitch they posted when over 2,000 tracks flooded their inbox. With a choice like that, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2012/01/midem-pitch-session-2012/</link>
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		<title>Atlantic Screen Composers attend Cannes investment fund for film music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atlantic Screen Composers (ASC) will go to the Cannes Film Festival 2011 armed with a huge investment fund, ready to inject much needed finance into film music. Set up in January 2011 to produce and finance music scores, it has funded 5 films and two animation series to date and projects that it will fund [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2011/05/atlantic-screen-composers-attend-cannes-investment-fund-for-film-music/</link>
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		<title>The death of collective licensing? Debate in London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are very strong forces currently attacking the PROs in Europe. Although many musicians now regret the death of collective licensing in the US, some parties are pushing for it in Europe. Are the UK and Europe moving towards a US model? Are we seeing a dismantling of the PRS for Music monopoly in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2011/03/the-death-of-collective-licensing-debate-in-london/</link>
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		<title>Content &amp; Music Licensing workshop in London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music licensing is a tricky subject at the best of times. For start-ups, it can be a nightmare. March 9 2011 is the date for a workshop focused on providing up-to-date practical music and content licensing guidelines to tech startups and agencies. The workshop will examine different kinds of deals ranging from streaming music, online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2011/02/content-music-licensing-workshop-in-london/</link>
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		<title>Paramount and Berklee create database of old soundtracks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Harvard Crimson pointed to a project run by Berklee and the movie studio Paramount. The studio has undertaken a massive programme to tag a database of old soundtracks from the 20s onwards, with the goal of making them available for licensing. There are mountains of music out there that cannot practically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://find-a-track.com/2011/02/paramount-and-berklee-create-database-of-old-soundtracks/</link>
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