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Licensequote - D.I.Y. Music Licensing Storefront
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Music licensing can provide a valuable additional income stream and promotional opportunity for musicians at all levels. But not every artist can attract the attention of a professional licensing company and others aren't interested in paying the up to 50% commission that many charge. To offer an alternative, LicenseQuote has created a flat fee music licensing e-commerce platform that enables artists, labels and publishers to license their music from their own sites while keeping 100% of revenue. More Info plus ...
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ASCAP Cuts Payments Just Months After Issuing a Glowing Forecast
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In April of this year, ASCAP announced, “Music is performed more often, in more places, in more ways by more businesses than ever before. That expanded music use, combined with dramatic ASCAP Membership growth, market share increases and effective strategic management have led to stunning revenue and distribution growth for 2009." 2009 collections had risen $48 million to $995 million from the $947 million collected in 2008. But just recently, ASCAP cut payments to some members of it's ASCAPlus program by ...
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Bloated Copyright Laws Will Make Sure America's Rich Musical Heritage is Forgotten Forever
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This guest post is by Voyno at The New Rockstar Philosophy. The Library Congress has just released a report about the problems it's facing with the digital music world, writes Ars Technica. In the report, officially titled The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age, it's written that “Significance is too often recognized and conferred only after the passage of years. We do not have the luxury of waiting ...
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Your Music is About to Get Stolen. so Why Are You Still Writing?
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Digital Music News
A few years back, Eric Garland of BigChampagne said something eye-opening. That is, if your music is not getting traded and stolen online, you've got a serious problem. And thatproblem is obscurity, a far greater evil for musicians. But once out of obscurity, fans are almost guaranteed to pass your music around for free. Sure, you might get a little check from iTunes, but chances are that a totally disproportionate amount of acquisition will be gratis. And it's going to ...
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ASCAP Loses Its Anti-Digital Music Lawsuit
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The Second Circuit appeals court has ruled against ASCAP and determined that music downloads are not a 'public performance' under copyright law. Thus, the streaming music royalty rates that Yahoo, Real and others pay to the performing rights organization have been overturned and are being reexamined. For now, they only have to pay for creating copies of music, but ASCAP may continue their battle. ACAP noted in a memo that they're disappointed about the ruling and are restrategizing. Yahoo, on the other ...
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The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit Preview
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We All Make Music
ine years ago, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit called the Future of Music Coalition held its very first policy summit.
The world had begun to buzz with questions about where music was headed (What are we going to do about piracy? Will record labels still exist?), but the discussions rarely seemed to include the people actually creating the music, and the FMC wanted to see that gap bridged.
“We were simply trying a new thing at the time," says Casey Rae-Hunter, ...
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What is the RIAA Hoping to Change?
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(UPDATED) In a recent interview, Joel Tenenbaum was asked what he had hoped to change when he stood up against the RIAA and refused to agree to a settlement. He fired back, “I'm not 'hoping to change' anything... Maybe the better question is: What [is the RIAA] hoping to change?" According to Cary Sherman, the President of the RIAA, they are hoping to change the culture of file-sharing itself; the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that define an ...
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"The Winners Take Advantage of the Building Blocks to Generate Community and Commerce," Says Patrick Sullivan, Ceo of Rightsflow
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Recently, I spoke with Patrick Sullivan, who is the cofounder, President, and CEO of RightsFlow, a mechanical licensing and royalty payment technology platform. In this interview, Sullivan talks about the romanticism of the traditional record industry, the barriers to licensing music in the past, and easy-to-use licensing is a necessary part of the emerging digital ecology of music culture. How will a music consumption system that compensates artists based on how often people listen to them create a different set ...
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