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LyricFind: Two Decades of lyric licensing, data innovation [Indie Spotlight] https://ow.ly/FsTA50S3Z54 #LyricLicensing #MusicIndustry #Songwriters #MusicLicensing

You know something that’s frustrating? When festivals, competitions, producing lines and so on, bring playwrights into their programming but don’t disclose before a contract signing that the playwright has to produce the work being presented. Not every playwright knows how to be a producer. Not all playwrights want to produce their own work. Sometimes they JUST want to write and that should be fine! Another pillar that needs restructuring.

🔥 Check out my first article/publication, “Hip-Hop Havoc” where I discuss the most recent rap feuds of 2024 and the importance of artistic expression. #HipHopHavoc #RapFeuds #MusicDrama #Journalist #ContentWriter

LyricFind: Two Decades of lyric licensing, data innovation [Indie Spotlight] https://ow.ly/ohvJ50S3Z4Y #LyricLicensing #MusicIndustry #Songwriters #MusicLicensing

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User generate content (UGC) is challenging to track sometimes, but there are more and more smart ways to identify music usage otherwise not reported. ICE and Song Sleuth now teamed up to do what's possible to improve together in this. Details in the post below.

“The regime now makes everything a lot clearer and easier to find out information. The biggest benefit that music users will get is probably knowing what they're paying for and who they are paying for.” -Eu-Yen Tay (郑尤妍), Director, Business Advisory & Dispute Resolution, Drew & Napier LLC   What do the new Collective Management Organisations (CMO) regulations mean for CMOs, members, and users? Watch the video below to find out more. #Copyright #intellectualproperty

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New Post: Are Songwriters and Publishers Really Still Due an Extra $400M? Breaking Down the Numbers - https://lnkd.in/dpvt7Jwy - While the Mechanical Licensing Collective’s announcement last month about the “final final” Phonorecords III Copyright Royalty Board rate determination adjustment seemed to imply songwriters and publishers were due another roughly $400 million to, sources say the number likely overstates the coming financial windfall. After a more than two year wait that included an appeal process, a remand, a new partial rate trial, and then the time to recalculate and resubmit adjusted play reports, sources say that number may correctly assess how much more money was earned and reported due to the CRB determination covering 2018 through 2022 — but it also likely includes payments that have already been made. Within the total adjustment, about $250 million in net extra mechanical royalties will be paid out thanks to the adjustment, with practically all of that coming from the 2021-2022 period. Those royalties will be paid out beginning in May by the Mechanical Licensing Collective, the agency created by the Music Modernization Act to collect and disburse mechanical royalties from on-demand digital streaming services. This means adjusted monies paid out by the MLC will probably begin reaching songwriters from their publishers in the following quarter. Related Universal Music’s Pandora Policy Change Is a Matter of $135M in Annual Artist Royalties 03/14/2024 The rest of the roughly $400 million adjustment comes from performance royalties. But sources at the U.S. performance rights organizations say they are surprised by the MLC’s claim that another $138 million has been discovered in the resubmitted play reports required by the final rate determination. The MLC may be the best positioned to understand this, though. Because the mechanical rate formula calls for the digital service providers to report how much they paid in performance royalties each month — or estimate how much they will pay — the MLC has insight into how much was reported collectively for mechanical and performance royalties for the period of 2018-2022 before the rate determination was finalized. It also has insight into how much performance royalties totaled after the play reports were resubmitted with the adjustments due to that final determination. The final determination happened in August 2023, eight months after the 2018-2022 term ended, with the resubmitted reports due Feb. 9, 2024. In contrast, the PROs themselves only know what they each individually have been paid, and each digital service only knows what they individually have paid out to each PRO. Neither of those sides can see

New #CJEU preliminary ruling on #copyright. The concept of ‘communication to the public’ covers the deliberate provision, by the operator of a rented apartment building, of television sets equipped with an indoor antenna that, without further intervention, pick up signals and enable broadcasts to be made, provided that the tenants of those apartments can be regarded as a ‘new public’. https://lnkd.in/ezRJZUvC