Tag: digital royalties

In the US, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) was set up to collect mechanical royalties from streaming services, then pay them out to publishers and songwriters.

The label has been accused of withholding nearly $750m of royalties from its artists in a proposed class-action lawsuit by Black Sheep.

It’s 18 months since the MLC began identifying unmatched royalties and paying them out to publishers and independent songwriters in the US.

Sony Music is facing a lawsuit from Dutch artist Dennis Stehr (aka Mr Probz) over royalties that he claims the label fraudulently withheld.

Artists have been making their voices heard more loudly on a range of issues around music and tech in recent years.

The Independent label has announced that its artists will all now get a minimum of 30% of the digital royalties from their music.

In July we reported on US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's plans to push for the creation of a new streaming royalty paid directly to artists.

A prominent US politician has announced plans to push for the creation of a new streaming royalty to be paid directly to artists.

Artist Damon Krukowski has long been banging the drum over streaming royalties and musicians.

The British government is preparing to canvass musicians' views on algorithmic music recommendations.

That controversy within the UK music industry over funding for PRS Foundation isn't going away.

One of the most prominent recent disputes over digital music royalties was settled yesterday: the lawsuit between artist Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and label Domino Recordings.