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11/04/2019

Why Shane McAnally's fight with ASCAP could have repercussions for years to come

08/21/2015

https://www.nextbigsound.com/industryreport/2015summer

I stream, you stream, we all stream some Trap Queen. Read more on ’s Data to Date report

08/21/2015

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6612620/a-deep-dive-into-pandoras-payments-to-publishers

Those who read through Judge Louis Stanton's decision on the court battle between performance rights organization BMI and Internet radio giant Pandora, wherein Stanton decided that Pandora will pay 2.5 percent of its annual revenue to the PRO. The decision tosses out terms like headline rate, effect…

08/21/2015

Another article from earlier this year.

Nashville-based lawyer Richard Busch, a partner at firm King & Ballow, led the team that [...]

08/21/2015

Posting an older article...

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, [...]

08/19/2015

This is getting big.

Anybody paying attention to the music industry knows that streaming is growing by leaps and bounds, but even those closest to the data would be shocked by how much music people are consuming online these days. Next Big Sound, a data collection and analytics firm focusing on the music industry, has […

08/05/2015

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6649208/the-dept-of-justice-said-to-be-considering-a-baffling-new-rule-change-for

The U.S. Department of Justice's earlier inclination to amend the consent decrees to allow music publishers to partially withdraw digital rights from ASCAP and BMI blanket licenses may be undermined by another change it is contemplating.

07/29/2015

Great article from David Israelite of the NMPA.

The following response comes from David Israelite, President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). The NMPA is the trade association representing all...

07/16/2015

BMI will introduce six top executives from the worlds of TV, film, and advertising to Nashville in a [...]

07/13/2015

Next rival to YouTube?

If the company, which has been expanding its video offerings, can strike a deal with music labels, it could rival Google’s YouTube.

07/08/2015

This could get interesting...

Facebook is looking to pull music video views away from YouTube, an industry source has confirmed to Billboard.

07/07/2015

This acquisition could be a promising transition for the Harry Fox Agency. Regarding SESAC’s plan to implement micro-licensing on social video networks, this could be big news for publishers. Rather than just allowing publishers to claim YouTube URL’s to link videos to represented songs for ad revenue, this would create a viable system where content creators can actually obtain & pay for proper synch licenses for using songs in their videos – creating an additional revenue stream for publishers that we have not had the ability to implement before. Many user generated videos never get enough views to generate substantial ad revenue for publishers, but an upfront licensing model could substantially change publishers’ earning potential on YouTube & other video networks. Videos that would normally generate $0 in ad revenue for publishers would now have the ability to earn additional synch licensing fees.

SESAC, Inc., today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) [...]