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Copyright Industries Employ Nearly 11 Million Americans...
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Digital Music News
f you're looking for a hot-button topic to jolt things along, try jobs. According to a report presented by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus this morning, copyright industries employed 10.6 million Americans in 2010, or nearly 10 percent of the private workforce. You can see where this is going. The report, 'Copyright Industries In the US,' was partly commissioned by the NationalMusic Publishers' Association (NMPA), which certainly counts publishing among the copyrighted ranks. Others involved included the RIAA, MPAA, and ...
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Tunecore Takes On Songwriter Royalties with New Game Changing Service
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(UPDATE 2) With today's launch of a new service, TuneCore hopes to help revolutionize songwriter royalty collection as it did digital music distribution. The company's Songwriter Publishing Administration Service helps navigate the confusing world of global performing rights organizations (PROs) and speeds often slow payments directly to the creator. Tunecore has also cut direct deals with iTunes, Spotify and some other digital music services that eliminate PROs and other middlemen entirely. DETAILS & THE COMPETITION Tunecore's new royalty collection arm ...
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Warning: Every Musician's Digital Performance Royalties Are at Risk
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Recording artists and indie labels: there¹s a movement afoot to change the way that you would receive your digital public performance royalties, and it¹s not a good one, especially for recording artists. Back in August, FMC blogged about the news that Sirius/XM was considering doing a direct licensing deal, expressing our serious displeasure with the move. In recent days, the artist community ' including AFTRA, AFM, The Recording Academy, A2IM and SoundExchange' has been broadcasting the message to their members about ...
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What You Need to Know About the New Copyfight
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You may have heard rumblings and grumblings about a Senate bill that would “effectively destroy“ YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Google+, and any other service that lets people post things on the internet. If a “directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link" is found to distribute content without permission, the PROTECT IP Act (.pdf) would allow copyright owners or the Attorney General to sue for the deletion of that Internet service from the United States internet, by rendering it unsearchable on ...
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The Net Neutrality Mixtape: Dropping November 20th!
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Digital Music News
It's a potent playlist of regulatory oversight, and it's officially dropping November 20th! That's when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially enters its net neutrality guidelines into the Federal Register, a move that will almost certainly be greeted with a fresh batch of lawsuits and opposition. At a top level, net neutrality would make it illegal for ISPs to impose limitations or prioritizations on specific sites, domains, apps or platforms. That also includes throttling of pipe-hogs like BitTorrent, though the ...
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Big Copyright Extensions: They Just Don't Trickle Down...
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Digital Music News
It's starting to look obvious: sweeping, long-term copyright extensions simply benefit major labels and rich artists, and few others. And that still seems to be the case for soon-to-be-implemented copyright extensions on recordings in Europe, despite some nods to smaller musicians. The quick catch-up: Instead of 50 years, this latest legislation extends it to 70, which saves a trove of valuable 60s mastersfrom entering the public domain. Predictably, big labels and richer-than-God artists were lobbying for this one, with rhetoric ...
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The Urgent Need for Anti-Piracy Measures, in 1971...
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You may be too young to remember this, but... Here's an article plucked from the dusty archives of Billboard, specifically May 15th, 1971 (it cost $1.25 newstand.) The article discusses the urgent anti-piracy issues of the moment, including the need to grant broader copyrights on recordings to protect against a surging piracy problem.
By 1970, the piracy problem had more than tripled. “Senator Scott pointed out the rapidly increasing phenomenon of record piracy, from $30 million in 1968 to a ...
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Back to Basics: The Importance of Trademark
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The music industry is in the midst of a radical transformation. The speed with which distribution and streaming technologies, D.I.Y. marketing platforms, and innovative publishing trends are emerging and dying off is enough to overwhelm even the most seasoned artist. And yet, there remain a few legal essentials that every artist, old or new, must not overlook if they plan to take full advantage of the opportunities present in today's music business. With this post, I hope to refocus some ...
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