The bodies representing streaming services and publishers first agreed a new headline rate for streaming in the US in August.
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Hipgnosis and Round Hill Music welcome CRB rates decision
We heard from US publishing body the NMPA on Friday evening as news of the Copyright Royalty Board’s final ‘Phonorecords III’ ruling broke.
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CRB mechanicals ruling: DSPs turn attention to labels’ share
The final ruling from the US CRB to set mechanical streaming royalties for the period of 2018-2022 dropped on Friday night.
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Another row breaks out over Phonorecords III CRB decision
The US Copyright Royalties Board is preparing to issue its final verdict on publishing royalties for music streaming services from 2018-22.
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Labels and publishers reach agreement on US physical / download mechanicals
In recent years, the process of setting mechanical royalty rates for streaming in the US has led to rancorous fallouts
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Spotify may be a ‘€1bn a year business’ for publishing now
One former Spotify executive has suggested that the streaming service’s value is under-appreciated in publishing circles.
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NMPA and streaming services prepare for battle over CRB rates
This week, streaming services and US body the NMPA have filed their proposals for how the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) should set publishing rates for on-demand audio streams in the US from 2023 to 2027.
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US appeals court knocks back CRB’s songwriter royalty rates
When Amazon, Google, Pandora and Spotify appealed against new, higher songwriter royalty rates set by the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), it sparked fury in the publishing community. Get set for another outbreak: the US Court of Appeals in D.C. has reportedly knocked back the rates, backing the DSPs’ argument.
It’s not a ruling on the rates themselves, but rather on the procedure used to arrive at them, with the main bone of contention being the CRB’s method of taking parts from different experts’ models for how the rates should be set, which the DSPs argued had “incompatible structures, made different assumptions, and used entirely different data inputs”.
The appeals court’s ruling hasn’t yet been ‘unsealed’ (made public) but Billboard reported that it has backed the DSPs.
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DSPs and NMPA filings are in over new CRB royalty rates
Breaking news: there isn’t just one appeal against the new songwriter-royalty rates proposed by the Copyright Royalty Board in the US. The one from Spotify, Pandora, Google and Amazon we […]
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Spotify’s relationship with publishers hits the rocks – again
A new Spotify / music publishing story broke on Friday, but there’s a bigger picture here: the increasingly-dispiriting story of the streaming service’s approach towards the publishing community, as well […]
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Elena Segal on Apple Music and improving payments to songwriters
MBW has an interview with Elena Segal, Apple Music’s global director of music publishing, and asks her about the reasoning behind setting up a dedicated publishing division in the company, […]
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Martin Bandier says Spotify CRB appeal is ‘dumbest PR move ever’
Spotify continues to take the most flak from the US music-publishing community over its recent decision to appeal against new songwriter royalty-rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) – […]