Utopia Music isn’t just poaching senior executives and acquiring companies. Now the music tech firm is setting out its vision for “reframing the value of music through creator rights”.
Tag: Artist Rights
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Revelator opens up decentralised music rights platform, Original Works
Copyright management platform Revelator has launched a web app for music distribution and royalties, which includes an artist wallet that connects to its Original Works platform. It’s a user-friendly interface that […]
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Wipo explores ‘artists in the digital music marketplace’
With musicians’ earnings from streaming still under the spotlight, the World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo) has published a study on ‘artists in the digital music marketplace‘. The report was prepared […]
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American stars team up to form Music Artists Coalition group
There’s a new artist-rights body in town – well, Washington D.C. is a bit bigger than a town – called the Music Artists Coalition (MAC for short). The new US […]
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CISAC collected €7.5bn in music royalties last year
The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) has published its annual collections report, outlining the royalties it collected for creators in 2015. The total was €8.6bn, up […]
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Metallica have music videos for every song on new album
Metallica’s new album is out today, and the band are making a big push for ‘Hardwired… To Self Destruct’ on pretty much every digital platform. Including Napster: a neat publicity […]
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France’s ‘YouTube tax’ may fund local creators
French politicians have passed a bill that could see online-video services, YouTube included, have a 2% tax levied on their advertising revenues. What’s inevitably being called the ‘YouTube tax’ would […]
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Russia could introduce fines for illegal downloading
The Russian authorities have been cracking down on piracy sites – and in a separate trend, on the country’s own collecting societies – for some time. It seems the Russian […]
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British artists get £2.8m more music exports funding
The BPI has announced a relaunch of the music exports scheme it runs with the UK’s Department for International Trade, which will see £2.8m made available for musicians (via independent […]
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Dutch artist Pip Blom hails Spotify role in her career
Spotify has faced regular criticism from artists large and small about its payouts, but it has also received praise from artists who see it as having helped them break through. […]
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Class action lawsuit targets CD-ripping car stereos from Ford and GM
Car companies like Ford and General Motors are seen as key partners for the music industry going forward, particularly as they strike deals with streaming services. Yet US music industry […]
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David Byrne on streaming deals: ‘There needs to be transparency’
Musician David Byrne has been talking, again, about his views on digital music services and artists’ rights. “The Pandora model, and that of many other internet companies, is, IMO, like […]