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Adam Creighton, Computer and Video Gaming (Subscribe)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Warner buys Microsoft video game composition publishing rights

I saw this Wednesday night at Music 4 Games -- Warner/Chappell Music (publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp.) just bought the rights to claim, administer and license music compositions owned and controlled by Microsoft.

This includes past works like Halo 2 and Jade Empire, and future works (Halo 3, possibly the Mass Effect score, etc.).

I can see why Microsoft would do this, and it's a huge opportunity to get a big dog in the industry to push for additional distribution, profit, and protection opportunities.

My question is does this impact Sumthing Distribution, who was doing this for Microsoft? I mean, video games aren't their total portfolio, but I've got think they (especially Halo) is a big chunk.

(As a total aside, I had the Sumthing Distribution site open while writing this, and they have a jukebox playing their stuff. A track from Perfect Dark Zero came on, and I got pissed. Not because of the soundtrack; because of being reminded of the crappy launch game.)

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Adam Creighton, Computer and Video Gaming (Subscribe)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Warner buys Microsoft video game composition publishing rights

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