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YouTube Has Changed Its Payment Threshold and It's Bad News For New Musicians, Creators
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YouTube has been working on ways to respond to a major ad boycott over ad placement alongside objectionable videos. One of the changes will be bad news for musicians and other creators at the beginning of their careers. Effective immediately, YouTube will no longer serve ads on videos until the channel reaches 10,000 lifetime views. "This new threshold gives us enough information to determine the validity of a channel. It also allows us to confirm if a channel is following our ...
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Major Scandal At The Copyright Office With $25 Million 'Fake Budget' Line Item
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Documents were recently published exposing massive waste and incompetence at the Copyright Office. It seems the form Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, put in place a fake twenty-five million dollar budget line item, and then intentionally deceived congress about it. Guest post by Mike Masnick of Techdirt On Monday, we published documents we obtained that revealed a massive amount of incompetence and waste at the Copyright Office. They had officially asked for $1.9 million on a technology modernization program, then spent $11.6 million on ...
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Universal, Spotify Deal Is Even Bigger Than It Looks [Mark Mulligan]
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Yesterday's announcement that Spotify had signed a multi-year licensing deal with UMG is a clearly a big deal, clearing the way for a Spotify IPO. But it's also much, much more than that, says respected industry analyst Mark Mulligan. Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry Blog Universal Music and Spotify have finally agreed on terms for the streaming service’s new licensing deal which reportedly includes better rates tied to growth targets and premium windowing. Check out Tim Ingham’s ...
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New Leaked Documents Expose Waste, Incompetence At U.S. Copyright Office
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Access to new leaked documentation has revealed that Congress may be moving towards disaster for content creators as it progresses with altering how the head of the Copyright Office is appointed. By Mike Masnick of Techdirt Previously unreleased documents acquired by Techdirt show, fairly conclusively, that Congress will be making a huge and dangerous mistake if it moves forward with changing how the head of the Copyright Office is appointed. And despite the fact that the RIAA & MPAA are ...
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New Fair Play, Fair Pay Act: What's Inside?
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In a recent rare and purposeful show of bi-partisan support, the Fair Play Fair pay act was re-introduced, with the hopes of modernizing U.S. law as it relates to the regulations governing both digital and terrestrial radio broadcasts. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy Yesterday Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) (Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet) and Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), (Chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology), along ...
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2016 Was A Year Of Progress For Music, says RIAA's Cary Sherman
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Cary Sherman, RIAA Chairman and CEO, analyzes their new report showing how much the music business grew and advanced in 2016. But is also highlights how far it has to go; with streaming paying too little to artists and a music business operating at half the size it once was. Guest post by Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, RIAA 2016 was a year of significant progress for the American music business. Powered by 22 million subscriptions, streaming overtook all other formats, generating ...
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Pandora Under Pressure Even As Music Industry Warms To Westergren
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Pandora used to be the company the music industry loved to hate. An aggressive campaign to lower royalty payments and a now ex-CEO who cared more about money than music earned the ire of many. But just as that image is changing, Pandora is feeling new pressures. When Tim Westergren took back his job as the CEO of Pandora, the music industry responded positively, quickly cutting deals that enabled the launch of its paid on-demand music service. And as more ...
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Music Discover Platform TuneGo Launches A Record Label
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TuneGO, a music discovery platform aimed at working musicians and industry professionals announced that they are launching their own record label aimed at helping to break artists. The TuneGo label launch coincides with the recent addition of Marcus Spence, Senior Vice President of Mosley Music Group, as Head of A&R for TuneGO Music Group. He has previously worked with artists such as Timbaland, One Republic, Chris Cornell and Nelly Furtado. The new label, TuneGO Music Group, Inc. (TMG), has already ...
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