NAICS code: 512230 — Music Publishers
2022 NAICS code: 512230 — Music Publishers
Industry description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions in accordance with law and promoting and authorizing the use of these compositions in recordings, radio, television, motion pictures, live performances, print, or other media.  Establishments in this industry represent the interests of the songwriter or other owners of musical compositions to produce revenues from the use of such works, generally through licensing agreements.  These establishments may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of copyright owners.  Publishers of music books and sheet music are included in this industry.

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NAICS hierarchy: 51 Information > 512 Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries > 5122 Sound Recording Industries > 51223 Music Publishers

ExioML sector: Printed matter and recorded media (22)
Region: US, year: 2022
Value added: 101252.173354 M.EUR
Employment: 359.12725278 thousand persons
GHG emissions: 8762521777.57 kg CO2 eq.
Energy carrier net total: 269198.419669 TJ
Carbon intensity: 0.08654156732946645

Companies in this industry:

Company: G I A Publications Inc
Founded in 1941, GIA Publications, Inc. is a family-owned company with more than 10,000 choral and instrumental editions in print, as well as hymnals, recordings, a licensing division, and a wide variety of music education resources. The esteemed choral publisher Walton Music became part of GIA in 2013.

Company: Ai Entertainment Holdings LLC
AI Entertainment Holdings LLC operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides music record publishing, distribution, licensing, and marketing services.

Company: Peermusic Ltd
About us. peermusic was founded over 95 years ago by renowned visionary Ralph S. Peer, and is the largest independent music publisher in the world, with 39 offices in 32 countries. These offices today represent over 500,000 titles.

Company: Warner Music Inc
Warner Music Group Corp: Overview It markets, sells and licenses recorded music in various physical and digital formats. The company also owns and acquires rights to musical compositions and exploits and markets these compositions.

Company: Sony/Atv Music Publishing LLC
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC operates as a music publishing company. The Company provides free creative, music supervision and licensing services to content producers in the advertising, TV, film, video game, stage, karaoke and merchandising communities.

Company: Peermusic III Ltd
peermusic was founded over 95 years ago by renowned visionary Ralph S. Peer, and is the largest independent music publisher in the world, with 39 offices in 32 countries. These offices today represent over 500,000 titles.

Company: Kobalt Music Pubg Amer Inc
Kobalt Music Group, Ltd. is an independent rights management and music publishing company. Founded in 2000 by CEO Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt acts primarily as an administrative publishing company, not owning any copyrights.

Company: Warner/Chappell Music Inc
We are Warner Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. We have offices in more than 20 countries and are home to a wide array of songwriters spanning all genres, with material ranging from top-charting contemporary hits to a rich catalog of influential standards.

Company: Lorenz Corporation
The Lorenz Corporation was founded in 1890 as a publishing company producing music for the small, untrained church choir. Today, Lorenz Corporation publishes, prints, and distributes sheet music products for churches and schools.

Company: Music Sales Corporation
Music Sales Corporation designs, publishes, and distributes sheet music products and song books. The Company publishes books about rising stars and cult bands, photo books, reference books, and digital music books as well as operates music stores that retail music, and renaissance and baroque instruments.

Company: Neil A Kjos Music Company
The Neil A. Kjos Music Company is an American music publisher based in San Diego, California. It has published a large number of books used to teach music, most notably the Standard of Excellence series of books and software.

Company: Concord Music Group Inc
Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing and theatrical performance rights and narrative content, representing more than 1.2 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings.