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YouTube Takes the Guess Work out of Music Copyright Status
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Have you ever spent hours searching for the perfect soundtrack to your video masterpiece only to have it pulled immediately from YouTube for copyright infringement? You're not the only one. You're also not the only one who can exhale when uploading videos from now on. Why? YouTube just launched a feature that allows you to search within the YouTube Audio Library to see what music is available for use. By taking this step towards copyright transparency, YouTube has removed the guess work ...
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SoundExchange Identifies $2.3 Million in Unpaid Royalties for SAG-AFTRA Members
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Media and entertainment union SAG-AFTRA and digital music collection agency SoundExchange have identified SAG-AFTRA members with a cumulative $2.3 million in unclaimed royalties for the use of their recordings on 2,500+ digital radio services. SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange conducted a crosscheck of their two databases and identified nearly 2,000 union member performers who are potentially owed royalties. A large number of those identified include actors and comedians, who are likely unaware they are owed money. “While we are best known for ...
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5 Reasons an Interband Agreement is a Great Idea
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Brandon Dorsky, Esq. is an attorney licensed to practice in the state of California; he can be reached via Dorsky Legal. Everything is peachy when things in a band are going right; the music feels like a perfect marriage and all the members are excited about the opportunity horizon. But just like divorces —- the realities of band break ups can be extremely ugly and financially damaging. Although many artists abhor paperwork and may think a handshake can work amongst ...
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Soundexchange Increases Quarterly Distributions
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SoundExchange again broke its own record for quarterly royalty payments to musicians and record labels with a distribution of $149 million for the second quarter of 2013. This represented a 55 percent increase from the same quarter in 2012. SoundExchange was also recently honored with a couple of Silver Stevie Awards from the American Business Awards. Yesterday SoundExchange announced their second quarter 2013 distribution to artists and labels of $149 million, their highest quarterly payout to date. This brings SoundExchange's ...
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Soundexchange Announces Record $135 Million 4th Quarter Payments, $462 Million in 2012
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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 from its Q3 2012 distribution. Royalties distributed by SoundExchange are paid by Internet radio, satellite radio and cable radio services for their performance of ...
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SoundExchange Reveals What Pandora Pays Artists
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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 post on the topic, saying that it paid out all this money “for" artists, rather than “to" them. Just the same, we figured we'd ...
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TuneSat Helps Musicians Get Paid for Unreported and Unlicensed Use of Their Music on TV
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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 are still rely on manual processes, TuneSat makes a strong case for artists investigating their services. I spoke yesterday with TuneSat COO Chris Woods ...
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Soundexchange Pays $204.4 Million in Digital Royalties Since Beginning of 2012
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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 and labels paid. After a recent partnership with Bandpage, and the releasing of list of unclaimed digital royalties, the organization is taking sizeable measures ...
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