Jon Glass of Warner Music Group (WMG) and Alasdair McMullan of Common Music Group (UMG) have joined the SoundExchange Board of Administrators.
Glass and McMullan will lend enterprise growth experience and authorized acumen to the nonprofit, it says.
Jon Glass is Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Authorized Affairs at Warner Music Group (WMG).
He leads the corporate’s enterprise and authorized affairs efforts in help of WMG’s digital initiatives, working with WMG’s enterprise growth workforce.
In 2021, he was named one in all Billboard’s High Music Attorneys.
McMullan is Government Vice President of Enterprise and Authorized Affairs at Common Music Group (UMG).
He oversees a workforce of attorneys answerable for the upkeep and supervision of litigation globally on behalf of the corporate.
McMullan joined UMG after it acquired EMI Music, the place he was Government Vice President of Authorized and Enterprise Affairs for EMI Music North America.
Present board members at SoundExchange, Jeffrey Harleston of UMG and Paul Robinson of WMG, stepped down after 13 and 19 years with the group, respectively.
“Jon Glass and Alasdair McMullan are world-class enterprise and authorized affairs specialists and confirmed trade change-makers.”
Michael Huppe, SoundExchange
Michael Huppe, SoundExchange CEO and President, stated: “Jon Glass and Alasdair McMullan are world-class enterprise and authorized affairs specialists and confirmed trade change-makers.
“Every might be a key counselor and collaborator as we proceed to boost SoundExchange’s position as a champion for truthful pay and a music-tech chief in right this moment’s digitally-driven creator economic system.”
“Jeff Harleston and Paul Robinson every made an indelible affect on our group.
“We’ve achieved a lot throughout their tenure, and I recognize the help and steering they supplied alongside the best way. Every has been instrumental in serving to SoundExchange obtain the place that it now occupies.”
In December, SoundExchange secured a authorized victory in a royalties battle with US tv service Music Selection.
The court docket determined that the case might be referred to the Copyright Royalties Board (CRB), somewhat than it being heard in Federal court docket.
SoundExchange launched a lawsuit in opposition to Music Option to recuperate underpaid royalties in April 2019, following an audit of Music Selection’s royalty statements.
On the time, SoundExchange claimed that “Music Selection systematically underreported its Gross Proceeds”, resulting in underpayment to SoundExchange for statutory royalties associated to its enterprise institution service (BES).Music Enterprise Worldwide
