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Martin Garrix has extended its worldwide publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing. This was announced by Mark Bremer, managing director of Universal Music Publishing Benelux today.

“Martin is exceptional multi-talented, both as an artist, as a producer and as a writer”, says Mark Bremer. “He has quickly become a phenomenon, and we are very proud to continue our successful publishing collaboration with him in the coming years.” 

Martin Garrix : “The Universal Music Publishing team has given me huge worldwide support in recent years. I am very pleased that we can continue to work together in the coming years. “

It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride for RapGenius. After quickly becoming a hot site and a VC darling, a majorr muysic publishing trade group put them at the top of a blacklist list, then backed off a bit. Next Google cut then restored their search engine rankings.  But this week RapGenius has something to celebrate: a new deal with Universal Music Publishing, one of the world's largest musci publishers.

On the site the, Rap Genius founder Ilan Zechory wrote: 

The Universal Music Publishing Group has reached a new agreement with YouTube which will allow its Anglo-American repertoire to be played on the social media website in 127 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The deal encompasses all types of YouTube videos that feature music, including user-generated content.

The deal came about through UMPG's pan-European licensing agreement with the Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), dubbed Direct European Administration and Licensing or DEAL, which in this instance apparently is expanded to also include the other named territories. The music of UMP's songwriters and composers who are affiliated with other European collecting societies will remain subject to licensing arrangements made by those societies.

According to the announcement, the new agreement facilitates greater transparency, coordination, and data-sharing between the organizations while ensuring equitable compensation for rights holders who are entitled to a share of the platform¹s revenues.

Universal Music Publishing Group chairman & CEO Zach Horowitz said the deal will ensure that the company's composers and songwriters will receive proper renumeration. "The digital market can only flourish if creators receive fair remuneration delivered through efficient and innovative licensing solutions," Horowitz added.

YouTube's takeover of the pop music landscape appears to be going global.

Music Weekly reported Wednesday that France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) and worldwide publishing powerhouse Universal Music Publishing have both reached international agreements with YouTube, the newest power player in the major music market.

The agreement allows for YouTube to distribute music published by SACEM and UMP to 127 new countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, a move that will boost YouTube's musical presence and make it easier for publications like Billboard Magazine, which recently began factoring YouTube plays into its Billboard Hot 100 charts, to better realize what's popular throughout the world.

"SACEM is proud to be the first authors' society in the world to have signed an agreement of this scale with YouTube, the world's leading digital platform of music videos,” said SACEM CEO Jean-Noël Tronc. “This contract bears witness to our commitment to increasing both the visibility of works and the remuneration of our members, and of those of our partner UMP, with a major internet service, YouTube, the number one vector for discovering works on the internet."

UMP chairman and CEO Zach Horowitz offered much of the same, adding that "the digital market can only flourish if creators receive fair remuneration delivered through efficient and innovative licensing solutions."

The news comes six weeks after Billboard reported UMP was climbing into bed with two major youtube networks, Maker Studios and Fullscreen, Inc., an agreement that allows for YouTube's content creators to use UMP's content in videos, with the publishing company recouping an undisclosed percentage of revenue from ads that run alongside those videos.

It also arrives 10 weeks after news broke that YouTube was nearing a renewed deal with Vevo that could be worth as much as $50 million. The music video streaming site, the largest on the Internet, is co-owned and operated by Universal Music Group in tandem with Sony Music Entertainment.

One country that won't be affected by the agreement is Germany. The European nation's largest music royalties collection agency, GEMA, has been at odds with the video sharing site since April 2009, and recently broke off negotiations over proper royalty rates and tenets concerning intellectual property and copyright law.

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