The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

He became the first hip hop artist to launch a full rap album signed to Universal Music India.

As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $ 100 million in damages to the four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music — and an undisclosed amount to the studios.

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

* Republic Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group

However, Anthem / Universal Music will continue to release their music in Canada.

Konichiwa Records signed an international licensing deal with Universal Music Group to launch and distribute Robyn's music globally.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, Amos signed a " joint venture " deal with Universal Republic Records.

In September 2011, Amos released her first classical music album, Night of Hunters, featuring variations on a theme to pay tribute to such renowned composers as Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Satie and Schubert, through the Deutsche Grammophon label, a division of Universal Music Group.

On 21 October 2011 Williams announced that he had signed with Universal Music, following his departure from his previous record label EMI in 2010.

On 20 August 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach put out a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music.

With version 11 of Windows Media Player, Media Sharing was integrated and allows content ( Music, Pictures, Video ) to be streamed to and from Universal Plug and Play ( UPnP ) AV enabled devices such as the PS3, Xbox 360, and Roku SoundBridge.

* Lucian Grainge, Chairman and Chief Executive since 2005 of Universal Music Group International, and of Universal Music UK from 2001-5

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group.

After a decade of operating through Warner, when its contract with the company expired, the label was sold to MCA Music Entertainment ( later renamed Universal Music Group ) in 1990.

Universal Music Group acquired PolyGram in 1999, resulting in a corporate reorganization of labels.

Category: Labels distributed by Universal Music Group

In October 2007, Stephanie Lenz filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group, claiming they were abusing copyright law, after the music publisher had YouTube take down Lenz's home movie in which the Prince song " Let's Go Crazy " played faintly in the background.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).

The entire group was sold to MCA Records in 1979 ; as a result of subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC music group are now owned by Universal Music Group.

USA and the other channels were folded into Vivendi's Universal Television Group.

In 2003, General Electric's NBC agreed to buy 80 % of Vivendi Universal's North American – based filmed entertainment assets, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group in a multi-billion dollar purchase, renaming the merged company NBC Universal.

MCA later purchased the US branch of Decca Records, which owned Universal Studios ( now a part of NBCUniversal ), and thus Universal now owns these films, though EMKA continues to hold the copyright and technically are part of the television unit of NBC Universal.

Rights to the film are currently held by Universal Studios, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library via EMKA, Ltd.

Headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company ( which also owns ABC ), Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers.

GE also owns a minority interest in NBC Universal, which owns the NBC television network and several cable networks.

NBC Universal still owns the Trio brand, which no longer has any association with the CBC ( and, as of the end of 2005, became an Internet-only broadband channel ).

On January 10, 2011, Universal Music Group, which owns the masters to Decca Records, announced that it was donating 200, 000 of its master recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s to the United States Library of Congress.

As a result of MGM's purchase of this film, it is not owned by Universal Studios, which owns most pre-1950 Paramount sound features ( and who has produced a popular line of horror films ).

In February 2006, the now-NBC Universal ( who still owns the Lantz library ) sold the trademarks rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit along with the copyright to the original 26 cartoons produced Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

( Universal Pictures, the film's original distributor, owns only the video rights and the film's copyright ), while owning full rights to the 1965 television version of Cinderella.

* Comcast owns a controlling stake in NBC Universal ( 51 %), The Weather Channel, G4, Versus, style., E !, a share of A & E Networks, Comcast SportsNet, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers.

* Vivendi owns Canal + Group and Universal Music Group.

During the awards ceremony Cantat read out a speech on behalf of the band, addressed to Jean-Marie Messier, the CEO of Vivendi, the group which owns Noir Désir's record company, Universal.

Ovitz still owns the building along with three of his former CAA colleagues — Universal Studios President Ron Meyer, producer Bill Haber and former Chief Financial Officer Robert Goldman.

For example, Universal Studios Home Entertainment owns the UK rights ( they also own UK DVD rights to the TV series Twin Peaks, despite other Spelling / Republic shows being distributed by Paramount there ), and Paramount itself handles distribution in Australia and New Zealand.

As for what Universal owns, the following labels manage various parts of the catalogue depending on the genre:

Universal owns the rest of the post-1996 films and the library from 1996 to 1999 including PolyGram Television.

In October 2006, the song " Heavy Metal Love " was to be featured on the soundtrack for the Trailer Park Boys movie The Big Dirty, however, at the last minute, the track was pulled by Dean Cameron, president of EMI Canada, as distribution of the soundtrack was being handled by Universal, and not EMI who owns the track.

The two least-significant-bits of the second nibble of the first octet of the hexadecimal representation ( i. e., the two least significant bits of the first octet ) of the OUI are reserved as flag bits for some protocols ( e. g., ' M ' bit and ' X ' bit ), flags to indicate whether the address is part of an individual ( unicast ) or group ( multicast ) address block ( e. g., Individual / Group / G bit or Unicast / Multicast / M bit ), flags to indicate whether an address is universally or locally administered ( e. g., Universal / Local / L bit ), etc., and should not contain the values 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, a, b, d, e, or f, unless these values reflect the true meaning of these flag bits – if the organization that owns the OUI does set one of these bits when creating an identifier, then the value of the second nibble of the first octet changes accordingly in representations of the OUI ( e. g., if the hexadecimal value of the second nibble of the first octet is ' C ' and the least-significant-bit is set, then the value becomes ' D ').

There would be no legal issue with the name as Universal owns the Casablanca Records name.

Universal Music Group now owns the old 20th Century Fox Records catalog with reissues handled by UMG sub-label Mercury Records.