Category archives: A2IM

A2IM Reups CEO Burgess, Adds General Manager, Promotes Four

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has renewed the contract of its respected leader Dr. Richard James Burgess, who will now serve as both President and CEO of the organization. The indie trade group has also hired a new General Manager and promoted four from within. Under Burgess’s leadership…

Big Radio Payments To Artists, Producers, Labels Are Overdue [A2IM’s Richard James Burgess]

While radio stations have provided compensation to songwriters and music publishers, they have never never paid record labels, artists, or producers, something which, Richard James Burgess of A2IM believes, it’s high time to change. ___________________________ By A2IM CEO Richard James Burgess. This first appeared in Variety I was glued to…

AIMP, A2IM and CMPA: This Position By The DoJ on 100% Licensing is 100% Wrong

  ”If we value music, we need to value those who create it.” Below is a statement from Michael Eames, President of AIMP, Richard James Burgess, Ph.D., CEO of A2IM and Jodie Ferneyhough, President of CMPA regarding the DoJ position on 100% licensing. ”We, the undersigned, represent the independent music publishing and record label community in North […]

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