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Purchasing a catalogue

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With all the reading that I have done I have never found any written guidance on how to value copyrights. This chapter will pull back this veil of mystery and provide a few nuggets of information with which such skills can be developed. It is an area that has many facets to it and so I will try to give a simplistic overview in the first instance.

One of the best business entrepreneurs who made a successful career out of buying and selling music publishing catalogues was Freddie Bienstock. Sadly, he died in 2009 at the age of 86. I was lucky enough to spend some rare time with him when my husband signed to Carlin as a composer in 2001 and we met to discuss various publishing matters. I will share with you ...

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