The Orchard and ICG Announce Major U.S. Publishing Administration Deal

The Orchard and ICG Announce Major U.S. Publishing Administration Deal

NEW YORK and NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orchard, the world's leading digital distributor and marketer of independent music, and Integrated Copyright Group, Inc. (ICG), a leading independent global copyright licensing and administration company, have announced a global partnership for ICG to administer compositions on behalf of publishers through Orchard Music Services, a unit of The Orchard that seeks to maximize revenues for the company's label, artist, and publishing clients.

Under the partnership, ICG will provide copyright administration services for the U.S. market. The agreement will enable The Orchard to manage and represent musical compositions to their full potential through licensing opportunities, and to collect and distribute income accurately on a comprehensive, timely basis.

"Publishers have increasingly recognized The Orchard for our management of copyrights and our attention to customers' needs," said Greg Scholl, chief executive officer of The Orchard. "As we broaden The Orchard's business to include services like copyright administration and sync placement, our relationships with industry leaders like ICG -- and our ongoing commitment to customer service -- will help us deliver maximum value to our growing roster of publishing clients."

John C. Barker, president of ICG, said, "We are very excited to be working with such an innovative company as The Orchard, which has the industry's richest catalogue of independent music and the expertise to distribute and promote it on a global basis. By pooling our resources with The Orchard and employing cutting-edge technologies, we will continue to push the envelope of music administration."

"Our goal is not just to administer catalogs, but to assess our clients' needs and implement the best possible programs to meet those needs," said Patrick Sullivan, The Orchard's vice president of licensing, who oversees the day-to-day operations of The Orchard Music Services' publishing administration program. "We are looking forward to working with ICG to take our music services to new levels, and to help our publishing customers get the most out of their copyrights."

The Orchard Music Services operation helps labels, artists, and publishers to maximize revenue from their songs by ensuring that monies owed are collected, remitted, and fully exploited. The company also offers valuable assistance with royalty administration, song sync placement (film, TV, advertising, games, etc.), and royalty collection. The Orchard represents a growing catalogue of more than 800,000 tracks from thousands of record labels. Many of these labels have enlisted The Orchard Music Services to consolidate and focus their income opportunities.

For more information on The Orchard Music Services, please visit: http://www.theorchard.com/aboutUs/oms.php

About The Orchard

The Orchard is the world's leading digital distributor and marketer of independent music, with a catalogue of more than 800,000 tracks representing 73 countries, thousands of labels, and every music genre -- including rock, punk, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, classical, Bollywood, and more. This catalogue includes titles from multi-platinum acts such as Green Day, Coldplay, and Ray Charles, as well as breaking bands like The Hold Steady, Bedouin Soundclash, and Immortal Technique. The Orchard supplies all the leading legal digital music stores and mobile operators throughout the world, and markets its labels' catalogues for sync song placements in films, commercials, and television shows. In addition, The Orchard provides royalty administration and collection services for labels and copyright owners. The company is owned by Dimensional Associates, the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, Inc. whose portfolio companies also include eMusic and Dimensional Music Publishing. The Orchard is headquartered in New York and London, with offices in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Kolkata, Johannesburg, Moscow, and Melbourne, and local representatives in Paris, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona, Lausanne, Istanbul, Ramallah, Nairobi, and Sao Paulo. For more information, please visit: http://www.theorchard.com/.

About Integrated Copyright Group

Integrated Copyright Group, Inc. (ICG), established in 1990, is a global intellectual rights management company based in Nashville, Tennessee. ICG is a significant leader in serving the music publishing community with expertise in copyright administration, licensing, collection and auditing services. ICG became a division of the Evergreen Copyright Acquisition, LLC family in early 2006. ICG works with a distinguished roster of artists, including Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Ray Stevens, Nick Drake, Marty Robbins and Robert Johnson. More information about ICG is available at http://www.icgcopyright.com/.

Media Contacts

For The Orchard For Integrated Copyright Group
Paul Verna Farrah Retherford
Director of Corporate Communications Publicity Manager
The Orchard ICG
212-300-2824 615-329-3999
verna@theorchard.comfretherford@icgcopyright.com

Andy Morris / Justin Kazmark
The Morris + King Company
212-561-7465 / 212-561-7466
andy.morris@morris-king.comjustin.kazmark@morris-king.com

Justin Kazmark of The Morris + King Company for The Orchard, +1-212-561-7465
+1-212-561-7466, andy.morris@morris-king.com / justin.kazmark@morris-king.com
Web cast: http://www.theorchard.com/aboutUs/oms.php
http://www.theorchard.com
http://www.icgcopyright.com

Source: The Orchard

CONTACT: Paul Verna, Director of Corporate Communications, The Orchard,
+1-212-300-2824, verna@theorchard.com, or Farrah Retherford, Publicity
Manager, ICG, +1-615-329-3999, fretherford@icgcopyright.com, or Andy Morris

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