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YouTube Takes the Guess Work out of Music Copyright Status
Have you ever spent hours searching for the perfect soundtrack to your video masterpiece only to have it pulled immediately from YouTube for copyright infringement? You're not the only one. You're also not the only one who can exhale when uploading videos from now on. Why? YouTube just launched a feature that allows you to search ...
SoundExchange Identifies $2.3 Million in Unpaid Royalties for SAG-AFTRA Members
Media and entertainment union SAG-AFTRA and digital music collection agency SoundExchange have identified SAG-AFTRA members with a cumulative $2.3 million in unclaimed royalties for the use of their recordings on 2,500+ digital radio services. SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange conducted a crosscheck of their two databases and identified nearly 2,000 union member performers who are potentially owed royalties. ...
5 Reasons an Interband Agreement is a Great Idea
Brandon Dorsky, Esq. is an attorney licensed to practice in the state of California; he can be reached via Dorsky Legal. Everything is peachy when things in a band are going right; the music feels like a perfect marriage and all the members are excited about the opportunity horizon. But just like divorces —- the realities ...
Soundexchange Increases Quarterly Distributions
SoundExchange again broke its own record for quarterly royalty payments to musicians and record labels with a distribution of $149 million for the second quarter of 2013. This represented a 55 percent increase from the same quarter in 2012. SoundExchange was also recently honored with a couple of Silver Stevie Awards from the American Business Awards. ...
Soundexchange Announces Record $135 Million 4th Quarter Payments, $462 Million in 2012
SoundExchange announced today that it had paid out $462 million to recording artists and labels in 2012 including $134.9 million in the fourth quarter - the largest quarterly distribution in SoundExchange history. The total year-end royalty payments represented a 58% from the prior year and the Q4 distribution of 22,000 payments was a nearly 10% increase ...
TuneSat Helps Musicians Get Paid for Unreported and Unlicensed Use of Their Music on TV
Earlier this year Zoe Keating raised awareness of the peculiar reporting processes of ASCAP for performance royalties in live settings. Now TuneSat, a music detection tech company, is doing the same thing for television reporting. Claiming that a majority of uses of music on tv are not reported to Performing Rights Organizations and that those that ...
SoundExchange Reveals What Pandora Pays Artists
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Earlier this month, Pandora revealed artist payouts in the millions, as part of its ongoing campaign to reduce the royalty rate for online radio — or at least add a similar burden to FM radio, which pays no performance royalty. To be clear, Pandora phrased this carefully in its blog ...
Soundexchange Pays $204.4 Million in Digital Royalties Since Beginning of 2012
SoundExchange announced today that is it has distributed $204.4 million in digital royalty payments to artists and labels in the first two quarters of 2012. In its second quarter alone, the nonprofit PRO distributed $95.8 million, the second highest quarterly distribution in the organization's history. SoundExchange has really been on a mission lately to get musicians ...
Apple V. Samsung: Are You F-ing Kidding Me?
Let me get this straight: The company that allowed massive copyright infringement with their no-copy protection music pod now wants to prevent a legitimate competitor from copying what…? Rounded corners and a touch screen?. Does anyone besides me find it ironic that Apple is suing anyone for “copying” them? Isn’t Apple the very company that railed ...
Soundexchange Releases List of Unclaimed Digital Performance Royalties
SoundExchange continues its mission of rewarding musicians with their unclaimed digital performance royalties by today releasing a list of 50,000+ artist and label names owed tens of millions of dollars in royalty payments. This list also includes more than $31 million in royalties that are three or more years old ranging from $10 to more than ...
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