{"id":148596,"date":"2010-12-02T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/getting-into-a-global-groove\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T20:02:56","slug":"getting-into-a-global-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/getting-into-a-global-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting into a global groove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like growing old, music publishing ain\u2019t for sissies. Bad enough that file trading has ripped the heart out of physical sales, now performance earnings are sliding as the recession reverberates across the sector. \u201cSOCAN warned us of that at last year\u2019s AGM,\u201d observes Mark Quail<\/strong>, principle of Q&A Rights Administration Inc.<\/strong>, \u201cand sure enough I\u2019ve seen a market decline on the performance side.\u201d]\n

Fortunately, Quail and partner John Acquaviva<\/strong>, the internationally renowned DJ and music producer, have carved out a tight enough niche in the electronic music world that they\u2019re weathering the storm in decent shape. Quail and Acquaviva teamed up in 2003 after seeing an opportunity in the electronic-music world where writer\/producers were licensing tracks to third-party compilations that were selling briskly, especially in the European market. \u201cBut the writers weren\u2019t doing anything about it,\u201d says Quail. \u201cThey were just leaving those mechanicals on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a lawyer who knows the publishing world inside out \u2014 Quail\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes stints with EMI Music Publishing Canada<\/strong>, TMP, Alliance and Song Publishing \u2014 he signed up some of the biggest independents like Richie Hawtin, Max Graham and Mathew Jonson<\/strong> and got to work chasing down the missing earnings.<\/p>\n

Q&A\u2019s timing was impeccable. In 2004, a boutique digital-track retailer called Beatport entered the broadband world to service the global DJ community with high-quality sound files that made iTunes offerings sound like a tinny transistor. \u201cWhen Beatport started up, we saw another opportunity,\u201d says Quail. \u201cAs the hardware and the technology changed, with DJs moving from vinyl to playing MP3s on laptops, we branched out from publishing administration into reactivating definitive master recordings through a range of specialty labels. And we started signing individual tracks from artists around the world. Ultimately, it\u2019s about assisting artists, getting their stuff out there and helping them make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Q&A\u2019s labels is called Secret Weapon, and Acquaviva is undoubtedly the company\u2019s secret weapon when it comes to A&R. The global dance market is small and highly volatile but Acquaviva is himself an international brand, jetting from his home in London, Ont., to club gigs in Sao Paolo, Tel Aviv, Majorca and Milan.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn\u2019s in the nightclubs pretty much every weekend,\u201d confirms Quail. \u201cHe sees and hears what works on the dance floor so when those 20-something kids are packing the floor, he\u2019s paying attention to what\u2019s working and what\u2019s not. We keep our finger on the pulse of what\u2019s happening globally so we know whether to let something go or to chase it down. It\u2019s not an easy game but we\u2019re paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Quail and John Acquaviva of Q&A Rights Administration Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}