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Warner Music Group (WMG) is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., founded Music Publishers Holding Company (“MPHC”) to acquire music copyrights as a means of providing inexpensive music for films. Amongst the historic compositions in which the publishing rights are controlled... full article at wikipedia

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  • 2003
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  • 3,516,000,000.0
  • Sep 30, 2006
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  • 506,000,000.0
  • Sep 30, 2006
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  • 910,000,000.0
  • Dec 31, 2007
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  • WMG
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Last edited by mw_template_bot Aug 5, 2008