https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/07/sony-buys-hipgnosis-recognition-catalogue-songwriters https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/07/sony-buys-hipgnosis-recognition-catalogue-songwriters Sony Music Publishing has closed its purchase of Recognition Music Group's 45,000-song catalogue, the former Hipgnosis portfolio, at a price reported at $3.5 billion to $4 billion. For the writers whose shares are inside it, the songs are now with their third owner, and each sale has taken them further from the people who wrote them. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industrypublishingcataloguessongwriterssony