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Influence Media Partners, in collaboration with funds and accounts managed by affiliates of BlackRock, has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Anthem Entertainment: its music publishing catalogs, film & TV publishing assets and its portfolio of master recordings, for a purchase price of $600 million-plus.

Roblox’s 132 million daily active users now have A$AP Ferg, The All-American Rejects, and Teddy Swims embedded inside their games — and the artists whose tracks they’re hearing are receiving zero per-play compensation for it. That is the full picture of two platform changes Roblox announced Monday: it added independent distributor Too Lost’s music catalog…