Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. A major music-publishing conglomerate, formed in 1987 through the marriage of the holdings of Warner Bros. Music and the venerable Chappell music publishing firm. At the birth of the “talking picture” era, Warner Bros. began a massive investment in song copyrights as a means of securing material for its pictures as well as a publishing arm for the material produced by its house composers. Its first acquisition was of M. Witmark and Sons 1928, followed by T. B. Harms…