Tag: royalties

It's the latest salvo in the long-running unrest about the lack of performance royalties paid by those broadcasters.

Trqk is one of the firms helping music companies to dig into analytics of their music royalties. It has just launched a new 'TrqkIQ Publisher Edition'.

Tangy Market analyses music's past performance and future potential, then pays musicians upfront, converting the predicted royalties into shares to sell.

In July, Portishead became one of the most high-profile artists to test SoundCloud's user-centric 'fan-powered royalties' system, with a cover of Abba's 'SOS'.

The streaming service is outlining how it plans to make sure rightsholders and musicians featured in DJ mixes are accurately paid.

Royalty Exchange's latest music rights auction last week focused on the late Jerry Garcia, for a share of the Garcia estate's sound recording royalties.

If you do, it’s your lucky day – as long as you’ve got $2.3m to spare. Royalty Exchange’s latest auction is a slice of the rights to songs from the Shrek movie franchise, including all four films and...

We have seen artists sell off portions of their recorded music and publishing rights, but now Italian band Le Vibrazioni are exploring fans’ appetite for buying a slice of their image rights. The band, with music firm...

The fact that terrestrial radio broadcasters in the US do not pay performance royalties to artists or labels has been a longstanding complaint from the music industry. Could that finally be changing? That’s the aim of the...

US digital performance royalties agency SoundExchange has published some figures for last year, showing that its distributions grew by 4% to nearly $947m. That’s good news during the Covid-19 pandemic when other forms...

When we think about licensing deals for social apps, the agreements with major labels and publishers (or, of course, the public disputes with them) get all the headlines. However, these services also need a tapestry of deals...

We wrote last week about British politician Kevin Brennan’s presentation of a private member’s bill in the houses of parliament that will focus on music streaming and artists. We noted that because of the way the British...