To Cumulo Music Rights
With a combined 35 years of experience of the universe of music rights and their respective relationship to one another, Cumulo can add value to a music catalogue by applying a few key actions to increase a catalogue’s yield.
This centres around our clients taking control of their recordings and their publishing, working the two hand in hand, and applying a fresh approach to best practices including tracking, proactive marketing and regular reporting, all of which will be performed by our in-house team.
This is what we do. And we only work with a handful of top level catalogues at any time. Cumulo aims to provide a new alternative to the current rights representation landscape, whilst simultaneously working alongside the major players in the industry.
Specialists in working with both music publishing copyrights and master recordings, our aim is to protect the value of these assets in the long term, to significantly increase annual turnover from them in the short to medium term and to proactively pursue new opportunities in this rapidly changing industry.
PARTNERSHIP
We work in partnership with writers, managers and existing publishers and apply a laser focus to re-energise song catalogues with unfulfilled potential.
HAND PICKED
We work with only a small number of high value copyrights at any one time.
PROMOTE
We exhaustively research a client’s back catalogue and actively promote and market with the aim of generating multiple new uses.
MAXIMISE
We establish a plan to improve any and all rights- related income streams, agreed between interested parties.
What Cumulo Can Offer You
Cumulo works on behalf of our client to maximise every opportunity relating to their catalogue of songs and recordings. We constantly monitor all income types, provide regular accounting and analysis of all partners accounting and provide marketing and regular health checks including:
In-house record label releases, including a detailed re-release strategy and where necessary a team to aid marketing.
Neighbouring rights administration. Where necessary, Cumulo performs audits of client income and searches for missing income relating to historic publishing and recording deals.
Cumulo re-energises clients’ copyrights by finding opportunities for covers, remixes and interpolations by current frontline artists.
Cumulo tracks radio and sync activity worldwide and helps make sure that all publishing partners account accurately and on time.
Cumulo will constantly monitor all rights infringements and sampling issues and provide expert musicology services
Cumulo helps to protect and maintain the integrity of the catalogue: our am is to help clients control the value of their songs by making sure that only the best quality recordings are available.
We help each client tell their story through wider projects: we have affiliates that can assist with musical theatre and grand rights, book deals and movie biopics
In the case of reverted rights, Cumulo can use North American activity to establish best practices and assets that can be used on a WW basis to push existing rights partners to provide best service possible.
Driving sync usages through our “combined rights” approach, making licensing quicker and easier.
Proactively marketing assets to our extensive network of potential licensees across all media, our internal group companies and existing rights representation’s marketing departments.
Maintaining the value of assets by taking time to evaluate each opportunity.
Working closely with our client to consistently ensure the value of the songs is maintained.
We’re proud to work with:
Simple Minds
Cutting Edge Film Score Catalogue,
including Drive, The Kings Speech, Sicario and Carol
Mary Mar Music,
including I Believe In Miracles
The Foundations
including Build Me Up Buttercup
Nina Simoneincluding
I’m Feeling Good
T-Rex
including Get It On (Bang A Gong)
Ram Jam
including Black betty
Joan Jett
including I Love Rock And Roll
Hot Chocolate
including You Sexy Thing
Free
Tony Macaulay
Jackson Sisters
Phil Manazanera
Faithless
Whiplash (Film Score)
Black Sabbath
Drive (Film Score)
Bobby Hebb
Kylie Minogue
Rick Astley
Trevor Horn
King’s Speech (Film Score)
David Bowie
The Who
Woody Guthrie
What we’ve worked on
From Commercials, to TV and Film, to Games – here are some of the projects we’ve worked on:
Halifax, Visit Wales, Microsoft, Sharwoods, Commerzbank, Target, Rimmel, Tropicana, Payless Shoes, Laughing Cow, Nescafe, Ralph Lauren, Adidas, Netflix, Samsung, ITV, Lidl, Gap, Old Navy, YouTube, Louis Vuitton, Paul Smith, Darty, Marks & Spencer, Xbox, PlayStation
Fast & Furious 7, Un Prophète, Burn After Reading, The Inbetweeners, True Detective, The Newsroom, Bojack Horseman, Family Guy, Better Call Saul, Nurse Jackie, Shameless, Penny Dreadful, Walking On Sunshine, Total Recall
FIFA ‘13/’14/’15, NBA Live ‘13, Dance Star, Sing Star, Little Big Planet and many more…
Get In Touch
Tel.: + 44 7711 361724
ALEX SHERIDAN
alex@cumulomusicrights.co.uk
www.cumulomusicrights.com
www.cuttingedgegroup.com
