Chris Murphy, the man behind INXS, launches new music rights company
Chris Murphy, the man behind INXS, has launched a new company Murphy Rights Management (MRM) which will offer clients in film, TV and advertising rights to music to pair with visual media.
The company is colaborating with agencies, film studies and television production companies across the world to deliver these “synchronisation opportunities”, which allows the copyright owner of music to grant a license holder the right to “sync” the music with a visual media output.
MRM is working with Grey Advertising (Renault), Music Mill (Just Jeans), NBC Television (Law & Order SVU), Disney, Warner Bros, Channel 7 (Never Tear Us Apart), SBS (Vikings), HBO and the Nine Network (When Love Comes to Town).
In a statement Murphy said: “People on the other side of the fence find it can be extraordinarily frustrating when they’re trying to get a sync approved and you have to deal with numerous rights holders including the publisher/s and the master copyrights owner. We decided to put our time, energy and money into helping creative people to manage their rights – the area I find most neglected in the industry.
