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Weekly Music Publishing Update: Inside The Ferrick, Lowery Pastorius Spotify Lawsuit
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Ongoing in music industry news these days dwells the combined lawsuits of David Lowery, Melissa Ferrick and Jaco Pastorius. The plaintiffs combined forces to attempt a class action lawsuit against streaming services worldwide. Without judge approval for class action, their efforts narrowed toward Ferrick’s original focus: Spotify. Ferrick's accusations were made toward Spotify’s inconsistent obligation with the Harry Fox Agency, as well as its failure to file Notices of Intention (NOI’s) for mechanical licenses. Spotify took initiative to seek The ...
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Reddit, Amazon Push For July 12 'Day Of Action' To Protest Killing Of Net Neutrality
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Although Google and Netflix have both abandoned their defense of net neutrality, other also major internet companies are planning to come together in a 'Day of Action' on July 12th to protest what would seem to be the inevitable dismantling of the popular consumer supporting legislation. Guest post by Karl Bode of Techdirt So as we've been noting, a lot of people remain under the impression that companies like Google and Netflix still support net neutrality, and they'll be rushing ...
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Apple Music Can't Catch Up To Spotify And That Spells Trouble for Apple's HomePod Smart Speaker
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Recently, Apple announced that Apple Music has 27 million subscribers. While impressive, it's not enough to catch Spotify, who has more than 50 million paid subscribers, and continues to add users at an impressive space. That gap could be a problem for Apple’s newly announced smart speaker, HomePod. While announcing HomePod, Apple centered its pitch around the new device's superior audio and built-in speakers compared to more established smart speakers from Amazon and Google. But if Apple insists on its ...
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SoundExchange Royalties: The Producer’s Cut
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Attorney and artists advocate Chris Castle lays out how SoundExchange deals with royalties due to the producers of the sound recordings to which they hold the rights, and how their share is calculated and paid. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy We often get questions about whether producers get a share of webcasting royalties. Let’s get one thing straight first of all: SoundExchange deals with the limited performance right for sound recordings available in the U.S. This is ...
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Two U.S. Senators Ask SXSW To Leave Texas In Protest Of Anti-Immigration Laws
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Two U.S. Senators have called on the organizers of South by Southwest (SXSW) to relocate the annual conference and festival out of Texas until President Trump's anti-immigrant SB4 law is repealed or overturned by the courts. In a letter to Roland Swenson, the CEO of SXSW, two Latino U.S. Senators, Bob Menendez, (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), outlined the potential risks posed by the anti-immigrant SB4 law to the safety and interest of festival attendees; and asked SXSW to join ...
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YouTube, ASCAP Reach U. S. Performance Rights Deal
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Performing rights organization ASCAP and YouTube have signed a multi-year agreement for US public performance rights and data collaboration. Under the agreement the two will work together to ensure that ASCAP members get paid more fairly and accurately for the use of their music on YouTube. The new agreement between ASCAP and YouTube is all about better data. With no official central database of songs and songwriters, YouTube, Spotify and other streamers have repeatedly come under fire for failing ...
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Navigating A Sea Of Music: Pandora's Catalog Curation
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In this article Glenn Peoples explores the reasoning and process behind Pandora's curation of the music they offer, and how it allows them to hand pick the best and most likely to be enjoyed tracks. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora on Medium Key takeaways: Curation allows Pandora to surface the best of the over 50 million tracks available to streaming services. A mix of signals, data science and human analysis picks the best tracks to highlight for listeners. Recommending ...
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A Core Flaw In Music's Blockchain [Chris Castle]
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Although many in the music industry are excited by the possibilities of blockchain's potential, others like Chris Castle are more skeptical, particularly of it's need to be forced on rights holders as a means of making the technology scalable. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions The truth about blockchain is that at its core, it requires its regime to be enforced on rights owners in order to scale–and that is its essential flaw. Call me a blockchain ...
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