Sound-Pol

Sound-Pol was set up in 1990 as a record company (LC10103). At that time Polish market has been dominated by illegal productions, and the firm against the times and lack of respect for copyrights published legally CDs from PolyGram catalogue. They had been the only firm in Poland with such authorisation. In 1994 Polish Parliament passed a new law on copyright. In the same year the company started their publishing activity. They had been one of the first private music publishers in Poland. PolyGram's authorisation passed to Izabelin Studio, which, at the time, became a division of PolyGram Polska. In 2005 it was acquired by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. The company was renamed Sony Music Publishing Poland in July 2005 and later to SM Publishing (Poland). The name still functions in Sony/ATV, recently as an imprint of EMI Production Music, a production music division of its parent.