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Licensequote - D.I.Y. Music Licensing Storefront
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 ...
ASCAP Cuts Payments Just Months After Issuing a Glowing Forecast
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 ...
Bloated Copyright Laws Will Make Sure America's Rich Musical Heritage is Forgotten Forever
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, ...
Your Music is About to Get Stolen. so Why Are You Still Writing?
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 ...
ASCAP Loses Its Anti-Digital Music Lawsuit
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 ...
The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit Preview
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 ...
What is the RIAA Hoping to Change?
(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 Winners Take Advantage of the Building Blocks to Generate Community and Commerce," Says Patrick Sullivan, Ceo of Rightsflow
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 ...
"Culture is More Important Than Copyright."
Last week, TechDirt highlighted this great quote from comic book writer Mark Waid and I hadn't gotten a chance to post about it till now. Waid recently spoke at the Harvey Awards and gave a semi-controversial talk about copyright, the public domain and learning to embrace file sharing. Wanting to further clarify his points and clear ...
Tips for Getting Your Music Licensed, Part One
[This post was written by Eric Herman, the president and co-founder of Modiba. Herman runs Modiba Publishing, an international music publishing and licensing company representing over 250 artists. Modiba's clients include Universal Studios, NBC, Disney, Target, AT&T, ESPN, Pottery Barn, Teva, General Mills, CBC, Vodafone, and Mastercard] For independent artists (and any other artists short of ...
