Soundexchange Announces Record $135 Million 4th Quarter Payments, $462 Million in 2012
SoundExchange announced today that it had paid out $462 million to recording artists and labels in 2012 including $134.9 million in the fourth quarter - the largest quarterly distribution in SoundExchange history. The total year-end royalty payments represented a 58% from the prior year and the Q4 distribution of 22,000 payments was a nearly 10% increase ...
SoundExchange Reveals What Pandora Pays Artists
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Earlier this month, Pandora revealed artist payouts in the millions, as part of its ongoing campaign to reduce the royalty rate for online radio — or at least add a similar burden to FM radio, which pays no performance royalty. To be clear, Pandora phrased this carefully in its blog ...
TuneSat Helps Musicians Get Paid for Unreported and Unlicensed Use of Their Music on TV
Earlier this year Zoe Keating raised awareness of the peculiar reporting processes of ASCAP for performance royalties in live settings. Now TuneSat, a music detection tech company, is doing the same thing for television reporting. Claiming that a majority of uses of music on tv are not reported to Performing Rights Organizations and that those that ...
Soundexchange Pays $204.4 Million in Digital Royalties Since Beginning of 2012
SoundExchange announced today that is it has distributed $204.4 million in digital royalty payments to artists and labels in the first two quarters of 2012. In its second quarter alone, the nonprofit PRO distributed $95.8 million, the second highest quarterly distribution in the organization's history. SoundExchange has really been on a mission lately to get musicians ...
Apple V. Samsung: Are You F-ing Kidding Me?
Let me get this straight: The company that allowed massive copyright infringement with their no-copy protection music pod now wants to prevent a legitimate competitor from copying what…? Rounded corners and a touch screen?. Does anyone besides me find it ironic that Apple is suing anyone for “copying” them? Isn’t Apple the very company that railed ...
Soundexchange Releases List of Unclaimed Digital Performance Royalties
SoundExchange continues its mission of rewarding musicians with their unclaimed digital performance royalties by today releasing a list of 50,000+ artist and label names owed tens of millions of dollars in royalty payments. This list also includes more than $31 million in royalties that are three or more years old ranging from $10 to more than ...
Major Labels Admit They're Not Sharing Any Pirate Bay Award Money with Artists
When the prison sentences were made against The Pirate Bay defendants earlier this year, it was ordered that they would also have to pay €550,000 (approx $677,000) to several major labels including EMI, Universal Music, Sony Music and others. While the Swedish court had originally awarded the damages in order to compensate both artists and rightsholders, ...
Breaking: Vevo to Finally Begin Paying Independent Publishers
Yesterday, we reported to you that the U.S. National Music Publisher's Association (NMPA) and their CEO David Israelite recently called for reform in the way publishers license digital content, particular with the way VEVO conducts its payouts. Today, Universal Music Group (part-owner of VEVO) announced that they will begin paying independent publishers for the use of ...
9-year-old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
For the past two months, one of my favorite reads has been Never Seconds, a blog started by 9-year-old Martha Payne of western Scotland to document the unappealing, non-nutritious lunches she was being served in her public primary school. Payne, whose mother is a doctor and father has a small farming property, started blogging in early ...
FTC Tells Net: Agree to Stop Invading Privacy (Or We’ll Say Stop Again)
The FTC put the online advertising and user tracking industry on notice Monday that it's time to clean up its act and start treating users' data with respect, laying out broad guidelines for companies to follow. But the agency stopped short of calling for federal regulation of online data collectors, amid protests from online companies that ...
Google users sue company over "deceptive" privacy changes
Google's new privacy policy combines user data across Google products. Pictured is a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, running Google's Android operating system and the company's Chrome web browser. Three Google users have filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. over changes to its privacy policy that combines user information across a number of company services. The suit, ...
Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It's .Seizable
When U.S. authorities shuttered sports-wagering site Bodog.com last week, it raised eyebrows across the net because the domain name was registered with a Canadian company, ostensibly putting it beyond the reach of the U.S. government. Working around that, the feds went directly to VeriSign, a U.S.-based internet backbone company that has the contract to manage the ...
Sen. Al Franken: Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Last year, a researcher discovered that iPhones—among the world's most popular electronic devices—were storing detailed, unencrypted information on their owners' locations and uploading it to any computer they were connected to. Subsequent research revealed that both Apple iPhones and Google Android devices were sending detailed location information back to Apple and Google—and that in some cases, ...
The Eagles' rep responds to Frank Ocean's 'Hotel California' sample
R&B singer Frank Ocean, who is affiliated with the Odd Future collective, took to his Tumblr on Wednesday to imply that the Eagles' Don Henley had threatened legal action over Ocean's track “American Wedding." Ocean's song, relased on his debut mixtape “nostalgia, ULTRA," which Def Jam re-released last year, heavily sampled from The Eagles' “Hotel California" ...
