{"id":3923,"date":"2014-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/09\/kobalt-music-copyrights-acquires-steve-winwoods-catalog\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"kobalt-music-copyrights-acquires-steve-winwoods-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/09\/kobalt-music-copyrights-acquires-steve-winwoods-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobalt Music Copyrights Acquires Steve Winwood\u2019s Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4b\/Steve_Windwood_toy2%2C_Hangout_Music_Festival_2012.jpg\/450px-Steve_Windwood_toy2%2C_Hangout_Music_Festival_2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"294\" \/><br \/>Kobalt Music Copyrights SARL has acquired the global publishing rights to Steve Winwood\u2019s song catalog. The Grammy-winning British artist has penned a raft of hits from the late \u201860s to now, and has enjoyed star turns as frontman with The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and as a solo artist. His works include the late-\u201860s pop classics &#8220;Somebody Help Me,&#8221; &#8220;Keep on Running,&#8221; &#8220;Gimme Some Lovin'&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m a Man.&#8221; He&#8217;s enjoyed solo smashes with the likes of \u201cHigher Love,\u201d \u201cRoll With It,\u201d \u201cHolding On,\u201d \u201cBack In The High Life Again\u201d and \u201cValerie,\u201d the chorus of which featured in Eric Prydz\u2019 club hit from 2004, \u201cCall On Me.\u201d  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>KMC, an entity advised by Kobalt Capital Ltd, now controls Winwood&#8217;s entire catalog of 177 songs. Through the arrangement, KMC has acquired both the publisher\u2019s share of the copyrights, as well as the writer\u2019s share (excluding public performance royalties).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Winwood has remained a major figure in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, a respected artist and writer who has helped to create some of pop music\u2019s most celebrated songs,\u201d comments Willard Ahdritz, founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Group, in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud that Steve has chosen Kobalt to be the caretakers of his works. His great music is timeless and will remain relevant and popular for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the official services partner for KMC, Kobalt Music Group will provide numerous services to manage and promote the rights. Kobalt\u2019s publishing division will administer the global publishing rights and provide creative sync and licensing services. Also, Kobalt Label Services has acquired the exclusive right to license certain masters owned by Winwood, which include re-recordings of his hits, for sync opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobalt Music Copyrights SARL has acquired the global publishing rights to Steve Winwood\u2019s song catalog&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}