Three of the key collecting societies in Europe have been cleared to continue their plans to create a pan-European licensing and processing hub, following an investigation by the European Commission. […]
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CD Baby founder criticises Pandora over songwriter royalties
Pandora is getting it in the neck again over royalties – this time from the founder of distribution firm CD Baby. In an op-ed for TechCrunch, Derek Sivers points out […]
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Invest with Diplo in Chemistry Spirits (?)
We are now in a post-post-irony environment on the internet. Miasmas of meta-memes mean it is impossible to separate what is real from what is just affected as real. It’s […]
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Merlin talks SoundCloud deal, monetisation and the crushing imbalance of the Universal/Sony duopoly
Amid mounting criticism of SoundCloud and its attempts to swing into monetisation and licensing, the deal struck last week with Merlin, representing a multitude of independent labels, was hugely significant. […]
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Kobalt launches its own digital collection society
Kobalt acquired the American Music Rights Association (AMRA) last year and has used that as the foundations for its own society – what it rather grandly terms “”the first global, […]
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SoundCloud and Merlin explain their indie licensing deal (Interview)
Slowly but surely, SoundCloud’s status as an unlicensed streaming music service – albeit one where it’s mostly artists and labels willingly uploading their own songs – is being chipped away.
Following licensing deals with Warner Music Group and the National Music Publishers Association, today SoundCloud is announcing an agreement with indie licensing agency Merlin.
It covers the latter’s 20,000+ label and distributor members – Beggars Group, Domino, Epitaph, Ninja Tune, PIAS, Warp Records and more – and will see them earning royalties from the On SoundCloud advertising initiative, as well as from the service’s upcoming paid subscription tier.
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SoundCloud licensing contract with publishers leaks
2015: the year music industry licensing contracts popped up all over the web. The latest is SoundCloud’s deal with US music publishers, which has been published by Digital Music News […]
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Snapchat is raising $650m from investors including Alibaba
Messaging app Snapchat has grown like a weed to 100 million daily active users, while striking a series of video licensing deals to launch its Discover section. How is it […]
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Judge explains 2.5% royalties ruling in Pandora/BMI case
In May, Pandora came off worse in a court battle with licensing agency BMI, after being ordered to pay 2.5% of its revenues in royalties rather than the existing 1.75% […]
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Queen fans can now ‘Play The Game’ on iOS and Android
Queen have got their own mobile game for iOS and Android: a blend of trivia questions and puzzles with the band’s music built in. The app, which is officially licensed, […]
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David Byrne joins SoundExchange board
Musician David Byrne has been a prominent critic of streaming music and its business models. Now he’ll have a ringside view of the licensing negotiations around some of those models, […]
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Pandora prevails in latest court battle with ASCAP
Pandora won’t have to increase the rates that it pays royalty collection body ASCAP just yet, after the latter lost its latest appeal in the court battle between the two. […]