Ole signs Haley to New Worldwide Deal! New EP!

[Tusk]

Dina LaPolt ‏@dinalapolt 54s54 seconds ago
'American Idol' Alum Haley Reinhart Expands Rights Deal with Ole; New EP in the Works http://j.mp/1FG0HTO

Nice the THR Article includes SMYM video

[makefigure8s]

Ole Musicbox ( http://olemusicbox.com/ ) pointed out earlier provides services for production companies (to find music, etc.) aka production music company; not a music production company. Confused me too at first.

Dina LaPolt negotiated the first contract with Ole (and I would guess with Steven Tyler guided her to them).

Totally irrelevant to this discussion: Haley must know how to play piano (based on the fact she was taking Jazz Piano lessons at Harper pre-idol). Her excuse has been her fingernails...

[Tusk]

I think Haley knows when to play coy when she needs to... it's one of the arrows she has in her quiver

[Miguel]

Just Me! ‏@mf8s 7m7 minutes ago

"Knock Me Out" by Haley Reinhart, David A. Bollmann II, Clare Reynolds

PJ ‏@PJHaleyR 2m2 minutes ago

@mf8s don't forget "someway somehow"

Just Me! ‏@mf8s 1m1 minute ago

@PJHaleyR Ha. I only did BMI this time around. Thanks. Good fine. Wonder if this was songcamp?

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Looks like, from what I recall of songwriting credits, Haley had more influence on "Knock Me Out" than "Someway Somehow." They're usually alphabetical if there was equal input.

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PJ ‏@PJHaleyR 2m2 minutes ago

@mf8s yeah seems it was the one from last year about this time in Va. beach

Just Me! ‏@mf8s 2m2 minutes ago

@PJHaleyR Yeah. Probably both...

Indeed, probably both given Bollmann is also featured twice.

[makefigure8s]

^ Was alphabetical for Knock Me Out. Transcription artifact.
http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnW...ype=WorkID

(P.S. at harry fox, listed as: CLARE REYNOLDS, DAVID BOLLMANN, HALEY REINHART; not sure if the ordering is %age based or not)

[Himm2]

In our morning Newspaper...in printed form:

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I'll give that Daily Herald clipping to Patti this morning when she takes me to brunch at Rise n Dine... Yes Miguel, Tusk, NUG & Swansteel... that's the place we had our last breakfast together of Halien Shindig weekend. I'll pick up Patti & Angie's Fish will be back in my care for the weekend after I'm driving Miss Daisy to O'Hare to link up with her daughter in Toronto for the Wild Ole' weekend celebration.

[Swansteel]

^^Nice! That place has a good breakfast.

[lovinghaleyr]

ole will also provide support for the recording of a new EP

That news deserves a VERY BIG REBEL YELL BY STEVE(HIMM)

Sorry lovinghaleyr...did I hurt your ears with that one?

NOPE HIMM,but¿You don't eard my scream from Argentina while jumping around
my PC????

[InItToWinIt]

Earlier this afternoon, I'm reasonably certain ("reasonably" being about 99.999% certain) that I saw a message to the effect that "it was hoped that Haley had her legal team working on this." (I'm quite certain that I didn't hallucinate that.)

I agree with that sentiment. Given the nature of what I deal with at work, my antenna goes up when I see something like:

Lately, we’ve adopted the business nomenclature of Rights Management, seeing ourselves operating in a broader rights management role. In that direction we have a direct deal with YouTube and are managing assets on behalf of clients in the master and audio visual realms. We are also in the secondary rights business, audio visual retransmission and I see us getting into neighboring rights in the near future. Music publishers have a natural ability to manage complex rights environments and data sets so it is our role to extend the scope of our rights management activities.

I get a little concerned when I see phrases such as "our rights" unless the creators of the IP (not sure that's the correct nomenclature here, but what I see regularly) are included in that 3 letter word "our." Mercfan, any light that you might be able to shed here??

In addition to my concern that the music writers (it's so hard to say that rather than composer) be compensated well for their efforts, I also hope that the retired Ontario teachers have found this to be a "comfortable" arrangement.

It's worthwhile to keep things in context. "Our rights management activities" is not the same thing as "our rights". The world’s fastest-growing independent rights management company has every right to claim ownership of it's "rights management activities".

Congratulations to Haley. Glad to see Ole further invested in her future. I was a little worried when Chad left Ole, and they moved their headquarters to Nashville, that they wouldn't be as supportive. It's really good to see that that's not the case. They seem to really appreciate Haley's talent, potential, and perspective.

[30CamdenSquare]

OK, I'll be honest. When I first read the ole press release, I was really excited. But by the time I read through the entire thread & the one over at IDF, I didn't know what the hell was going on... Other than ole is recording an EP w/ Haley (awesome) & Steve is taking care of Angie's fish while Patti is in Toronto.

Well I read the OP again & this part

"Haley is an amazing songwriter with a great career ahead of her, and we're excited to be on her team as she continues her journey toward stardom," said Leo V. Williams IV, General Manager of Creative (Los Angeles) at ole. "While most people know her from American Idol, her songs deserve to be appreciated on their own merits, and we're happy to provide the exposure they need to catch on."

^right here. Sounds, to me, like ole will also be promoting Haley's new EP, as a label would, in addition to taking care of the recording costs. Did most of you guys get that impression from reading this? I know it was brought up at least a few times here. I don't know if it was brought up at all on IDF.