While criticism is important to growing as a music producer and artist, some feedback is more helpful than other, but making sure your submission meets certain criteria can go a long way towards getting useful feedback and putting your ahead of the curve generally. _____________________ In this fresh post to…
Category archives: Publishing & Songwriting
RIAA Rebuts Songwriter Moral Rights Critics: ‘We love metadato too!’
We share at the full text of an open letter from the the RIAA to songwriter groups in response to their criticism after the RIAA’s filed a letter with the US Copyright Office regarding its study of Moral Rights for creators. ___________________________ via Chris Castle’s Music Technology Policy An Open…
Neighboring Rights: An Updated Look
Here we dive back in to look further at ‘neighboring rights’, a form of rights holding which entitles allows monies to be distributed to artists and sound recording holders when one of their works is either broadcast publicly or streamed. ________________________________________ Guest post by Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. on the…
Taylor Swift Turned Right Said Fred’s Body-Positive Hit Into A Revenge Fantasy: Here’s How
In this article Ian Temple deconstructs and analyzes the musical similarities between T-Swift’s latest single "Look What You Made Me Do" and Right Said Fred’s hit 1992 classic "I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt" _________________________ Guest post by Ian Temple of Soundfly’s Flypaper Here’s a music-theory analysis of Taylor Swift’s…
Sounds Great, But Sounds Familiar: Where To Draw The Line With Digital Sampling Of Sound Recordings?
Here Stephen Carlisle breaks down the legal complexities behind digital sampling, looking at what it is, its history, how the Ninth Circuit Court changed everything, and where digital sampling stands today. __________________________ Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of Nova Southeastern University In the middle of 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court…
Obsession: 4 DJs, Producers, Share What Keeps Them Up At Night
Obsession is a level of passion that can change how a person creates, performs, and releases music. In this piece four world-touring DJs and producers out of Piknic Électronik share with us their personal obsession. _____________________ Guest post by Leticia Trandafir of Landr What’s an obsession? It’s an idea, thing,…
BMG Launches Royalty Tracking App
BMG has partnered with a team of their songwriter clients to launch a new app to provide artists and rightsholders with up-to-date worldwide information on the value and source of their income from their music. The new app, connected to BMG’s royalties portal MyBMG, is based on the latest MyBMG…
YouTube, Facebook and Every Musician’s Moral Rights
Here Chris Castle explores the concept of moral rights, statutory rights put in place to safeguard the link between an artist in their work, as well as bemoaning the lack of these same rights in the US and how the should operate in conjunction with companies like Facebook and YouTube….
7 Key Clauses In An Artist Management Agreement
The relationship between an artist and their manager is one of the most important in the music business, and it’s critical that both artist and manager are on the same page. In this article we look at seven key clauses every artist management deal ought to have. ____________________________________ In this…
3 Lessons In Songwriting From Lennon And McCartney
Already a challenging task when done on one’s own, co-songwriting brings with it its own set of unique challenges. Here we take in some valuable lessons from one of the most renowned songwriting partnerships of all time. ___________________________ Guest post by Allison Johnelle Boron of the ReverbNation Blog Arguably the…