IMPALA Rejects Member Requests For WMG Deal Details

Could This Lead To More Defections? IMPALA announced that it won’t announce any more details of its controversial deal to support a possible purchase or merger between WMG and EMI. The deal announced in February caused top European indie Ministry Of Sound as well as Gut to exit the trade group. Other members have demand details about the deal only to have the door shut in their faces. “The Board of IMPALA has decided, in...

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Ministry of Sound And AIM Exchange Blows Over WMG Merger and NDA

Ministry of Sound, the grounded U.K. dance music label, has issued its second “open letter” to Association of Independent Music (AIM) in just two days, targeting Warner Music Group and bashing AIM’s acceptance of a Non-Disclosure Agreement covering the deal with the major label. The London-based firm had earlier resigned from AIM, the U.K. independent music companies’ trade body, in protest of Impala’s...

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