Brian Roberts

American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers operates as a membership association. It is composed of U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. The firm protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

WMG Acquisition Corp. engages in recording and publishing of music. It operates through two businesses: Recorded Music and Music Publishing. The Recorded Music business engages in marketing, sale and licensing of recorded music in various physical format such as CDs, LPs and DVDs, and digital format such as downloads, streaming and ringtones. The Music Publishing business owns and acquires rights to musical compositions, exploits and markets these compositions. The company was founded on March 18, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BMG Music Publishing, Ltd. publishes music. The firm publishes titles including pop, rock, country, gospel and contemporary, christian, latin, classical, and production music. It has music library operations in the United States, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.