PMC 2023

Paul has worked in a variety of roles in the music and media industries over more than 30 years. Originally an accountant providing advice to recording artists, in the early 90s Paul helped establish a new business management company that worked with a number of high profile creators and performers from the worlds of popular and classical music as well as film. After a brief hiatus to set up and run an award winning record label, Paul went on to work with a Top 20 UK accounting firm to develop a business consultancy with a special focus on start-ups in the music industry.

In the early 2000s Paul set up his own business management consultancy. This business had a focus on providing back office support to touring artists but Paul also increasingly found himself providing strategic business advice to established artists and songwriters. Alongside this activity Paul also managed a couple of artists in this period, all of whom continue to work in the industry today. Paul was also an industry partner to one of the UK’s leading music colleges.

Seeking new challenges away from the world of music, in 2007 Paul accepted an offer to join the commercial arm of the BBC. Initially working on talent focused technology projects, the world of music called again. For the next couple of years Paul was responsible for the music reporting function of the business, trouble-shooting operational music licensing issues in the secondary market and working with colleagues across the BBC Group for developing and delivering a music use strategy that future-proofed BBC content.

In 2019 Paul moved across to the BBC Public Service to lead the BBC’s Music Rights & Reporting teams operationally. The BBC Music Rights team are responsible for the clearance and licensing of music used in BBC content across all platforms (TV, Radio, Online plus the BBC World Service). The team also commissions new music for use in BBC content. The Music Reporting team are responsible for the onward reporting to the music collecting societies of the 250,000+ items of music used across the BBC each week.

Paul was one of the principle stakeholders in the procurement, development and delivery of BBC MusicBox, a game-changing music library with integrated clearance tools that went live in 2022. BBC MusicBox hosts 23 million commercial tracks and 7 million production music tracks that are available to producers to sync with BBC commissioned content. It also supports BBC audio services, including five national radio music services.

Paul Moore

Music Rights

BBC

Edwin Cox

Global CEO

West One Music Group