Deal sheet
- Status
- Confirmed
- Type
- Licensing, Publishing
- Parties
- Nare Productions, Nø Førmat!
- Amount
- Not disclosed Not disclosed
- Rights covered
- Phonographic copyright in the twelve-track album Massa, catalogue NOF.#72, barcode 3663729433367, released 5 June 2026. Owned by Nare Productions. Nø Førmat! holds an exclusive licence to the recordings and is the named holder of the compilation copyright notice. This is a licence, not an assignment of the recording copyright. Publishing of the twelve compositions is credited to Nare Productions and Labo M.
- Territory
- Not stated. The phonogram notice reads "under exclusive license to Nø Førmat!" with no territorial limit, and no document read by this desk sets out the territory, term or splits of the licence.
- Announced
- 2026-05-18
- Primary document
- Official newsroom
- Sources
- No Format album page for Massa on the label store, catalogue SKU NOF72, stating the 5 June 2026 release and the "ALL SONGS PUBLISHED BY NARE PRODUCTIONS / LABO M" credit · Label-operated Bandcamp page for Massa. Credit block reads "ALL SONGS PUBLISHED BY NARE PRODUCTIONS / LABO M", "(c) 2026 Nø Førmat!" and "(p) 2026 Nare Productions under exclusive license to Nø Førmat!". · Apple France storefront metadata for Massa. Copyright field reads "(p) 2026 Nare Productions under exclusive license to Nø Førmat!". Twelve tracks, release date 2026-06-05. Same string returned on the US storefront. · Deezer album record for Massa. Label field "No Format!", UPC 3663729433367, release date 2026-06-05, twelve tracks. · MusicBrainz release for Massa. Label Nø Førmat!, barcode 3663729433367, date 2026-06-05, status Official. · French company register entry for NARE PRODUCTIONS, SIREN 945321396. SAS incorporated 2 June 2025, active, activity 59.20Z, registered office 23-25 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 75001 Paris, president DIAWARA FATAMOUTA born February 1982. · French company register entry for NO FORMAT, SIREN 454030560. SARL incorporated 20 May 2004, active, activity 59.20Z, gerant Laurent Bizot born December 1972. · Artist official site announcement dated 18 May 2026: "Album Massa out June 5th on Nø Førmat!". Site footer reads "2026 Fatoumata Diawara . Nare Productions". · Discogs release data for the 2023 album London Ko. Montuno Producciones Y Eventos, S.L. in the Phonographic Copyright and Copyright roles, 3eme Bureau and Wagram Music in the Licensed To role, note "Fatoumata Diawara publishing: Montuno Producciones y Events, SL". · Deezer album record for London Ko. Label field "Wagram Music / 3eme Bureau", UPC 3596974385597, release date 2023-05-12. · French company register entry for WAGRAM MUSIC, SIREN 445067598. SAS incorporated 29 January 2003, active, president BOURDOISEAU STEPHANE born 1968. · Nø Førmat! home page listing Fatoumata Diawara among its current touring roster. · Original No Format album page cited at publication. Returned HTTP 429 and redirected to a locale-stripped path when re-checked on 22 October 2026; superseded by the migrated store page above.
Correction: Citation updated 22 October 2026. The No Format album page originally cited no longer resolves: it returns HTTP 429 and redirects to a locale-stripped path. The same album page on the label store, which carries the 5 June 2026 release date, catalogue SKU NOF72 and the Nare Productions / Labo M publishing credit, has been substituted. The dead original is retained in the source list for the record. No claim in this record has been changed.
Read this before citing: Four limits on this record. First, no contract was read: every rights claim here rests on copyright and licence notices published by the parties themselves, plus two company registers, and notices can be incomplete. Second, the French register records the president of Nare Productions as DIAWARA, first name FATAMOUTA, born February 1982; the artist releases as Fatoumata Diawara and was born in 1982, and the artist own site footer names Nare Productions, but no document read reconciles the one-letter difference in the first name. Third, the label-operated credit block pairs a compilation copyright notice reading "(c) 2026 Nø Førmat!" with a statement that the songs are published by Nare Productions and Labo M, so the copyright notice and the stated publishers do not describe the same rights holder; this desk reads the first as covering the album as a compilation and the second as covering the compositions, but the credit block does not say so. Fourth, a single released on 2 January 2026 and credited to Fatoumata Diawara alone, Sonkolon, carries the phonogram notice "(p) 2026 MoBlack" and does not appear on the twelve-track Massa listing, so not every 2026 Diawara recording sits inside the Nare Productions and Nø Førmat! arrangement. Attempts to confirm the composition registrations against a collecting society register failed: the SACEM and ASCAP repertory endpoints returned HTTP 403 to this desk and the BMI endpoint returned a bot-challenge page, so the publishing split is asserted on the parties own credits only. The identity of the distributor is also not established: the pre-order link published by the artist resolves through a service operated on behalf of IDOL, which indicates IDOL on the distribution side, but no document read states a distribution agreement.
