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BMG Rights Management has acquired UK Publisher Stage Three. This now makes BMG's third (pardon the pun) significant investment/purchase in 2010 after purchasing Cherry Lane and the Adage IV catalogue. Stage Three was founded by ex-Virgin/Chrysalis CEO Steve Wilson and has offices in London, Los Angeles and Nashville.

Warner France has purchased Paris-based live promoter Nous Productions who counts the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Robbie Williams and Black Eyed Peas among their clients. Salamon Hazot will stay on as President of Nous Productions.

Congrats to Bay-area Rapper Mac Shawn who was signed to Priority Records/EMI by Creative Chairman Snoop Dogg

Prince's CD '20Ten' pumped up sales of the Daily Mirror by 334,000 (it's a good thing the internet is dead).

The website Popjustice has launched a record label, Popjustice Hi-Fi, along with Virgin Records and is a joint venture between Popjustice's founder Peter Robinson, David Laud and Dan Stevens from Darling Artists and Virgin. 'Waterfall' by Rosanna will be the new label's first release.

TechDirt has an interesting article, 'RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales'. Be sure to check out the reader comments - they're entertaining as well. You can check it out here at http://bit.ly/9Yf4p1

Here's a great article 'How Warner Music and its Musicians Are Combating Declining Album Sales' that is worth the read by author Michael Fitzgerald in the last issue of Fast Company http://bit.ly/cW9fHg

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Jay Cooper, a music lawyer based in Los Angeles, explains how several deal structures that have emerged in recent years work

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