Independent American music and entertainment company based in New York (founded 1961), managing music publishing and master recording catalogs and film production.
ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. is an independent American music and entertainment company headquartered in New York City, founded in 1961 by Allen Klein. It operates across music publishing, recorded music, and film production and distribution, with a business model largely based on rights licensing. The company manages one of the best-known independent music catalogs, including The Rolling Stones' early recordings and compositions (1963–1970), the work of Sam Cooke, the Cameo-Parkway catalog, and recordings by artists such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, and Marianne Faithfull. In the context of artificial intelligence, ABKCO is notable as a co-plaintiff in the music publishers' lawsuit against Anthropic (filed 18 October 2023) concerning the use of copyrighted song lyrics to train the Claude model.
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American music business manager and entrepreneur (1931–2009) who founded the company and managed The Rolling Stones and, for a period, the business affairs of The Beatles (Apple Corps).
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