Deal aims to ensure music rightsholders are accurately compensated for the use of their works
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How To Get Your Copyrights Back From Your Label or Publisher
There’s a little known section in the US Copyright Act of 1976 enabling any copyright owner to get their rights back after 35 years. Meaning, if you wrote or released a song with a label or a publishing company after January 1st 1978, you can terminate your agreement and get all your rights back. It […]
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‘Streaming Is Killing the Next Beatles,’ Gene Simmons Says
From an interview with Gene Simmons and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo this week… Maria Bartiromo: Gene, you have been a student of this industry for a long time, and have participated in it. You’re seeing this world change so much because of streaming. You own your own music. So do streaming services hurt artists […]
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Looks Like Facebook Won’t Be Ripping Down Music Videos Forever
YouTube is a great place to develop your music career through cover videos. Facebook is a great place if you want those videos ripped down. Now, all of that is about to change. Want to practice your chops and develop an audience by singing cover songs? Then the first step is to absolutely, positively not […]
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Indie Artist With 4.3 Million Spotify Plays Receives Check for $5,078
If you’re trying to live off your Spotify spins, stop it right now. Taylor Swift makes $400,000 off Spotify in a weekend. But nearly everyone else making bubkes. Which means if you’re hoping to making streaming your breadwinner, you’re probably snacking on crumbs. Enter the latest independent artist to share a royalty statement with Digital […]
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How to Fire Your Sync Agent & Make Some Serious Licensing Money
Music sync is like a secret billion-dollar market. Except you need all the right handshakes to get access to it. But a sync agent can only shake so many hands. Which is why artists, songwriters, DJs, and other content owners are starting to make the deals themselves. Before we jump in, DMN would like to […]
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Financial platform Stem, which counts Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino as clients, raises $8m
Total money raised so far by royalties software tops $12.5m
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Turns Out SoundExchange Was Lying About Its CMRRA Acquisition
After flat-out denying acquisition talks with CMRRA last month, SoundExchange has some news. It’s an acquisition involving CMRRA. Sorry, but I simply must call out SoundExchange on this one. Last month, I directly asked SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe if his company was acquiring Canadian rights organization CMRRA. He flat-out said ‘No,’ right to my face. […]
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Calculate Your Earnings from Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, Google Play & More
How much should Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Google Play Music and Napster be paying you? Here’s a handy calculator to help you figure it all out. In the old days, it was easy to figure out your payments from iTunes downloads, CDs, and vinyl. Or at least, what you should have […]
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Pandora Has Stopped Paying Artists Over 50% of Their Money
At Canadian Music Week this past Friday I attended the Questions with Mike Huppe (SoundExchange President and CEO) conversation. After a 20 minute humble brag about how SoundExchange has seen double digit growth every year for the past decade and that SoundExchange paid out $890 million last year to artists and labels, I raised my […]
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