{{Infobox company , name = Independent Music Group , logo = , type = Private , foundation = 1989 , location = 3 York House, Langston Road,

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IMG
The Independent Music Group or IMG is one of the UK's larger independent publishers.

History

It was founded in 1989 by Ellis Rich, who had worked in the international division of

EMI Music Publishing EMI Music Publishing Ltd. is a British multinational music publishing company headquartered in London, owned by Sony Music Publishing. In May 2018, Sony Music Publishing agreed to increase its stake in EMI to 90%, pending regulatory approva ...

(managing EMI's UK catalogue overseas and international catalogues in the UK from 1975 to 81). It acquired publishing catalogues and small publishers. The company deals with smaller publishers and artists to get their work to a larger international network and market. The internet has since helped smaller music publishers to affordably reach a global market, at the same time as helping many people to illegally share (distribute) copyrighted music, to the chagrin of the mainstream music industry.

Structure

Ellis Rich, the Chief Executive, was Chairman of PRS He was also a director of the Music Publishers Association and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS). He had formed E&S Music with

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in the 1980s - Cowell's first commercial venture.

External links

IMG

Video clips

Ellis Rich in June 2010
on ''The Bottom Line'' Publishing companies established in 1989 Loughton Companies based in Essex Music publishing companies of the United Kingdom