PledgeMusic cofounder Benji Rogers left the crowdfunding company before the serious issues started surfacing. But that may not matter. Perhaps foolishly, Rogers opted to return to PledgeMusic as financial issues started worsening. During the turbulen…
Category archives: Music Publishing
Downtown Music Publishing Acquires Another One: Strictly Confidential
Downtown Music Publishing has acquired the full catalog of Belgium-based indie music publisher Strictly Confidential. The acquisition includes rights to more than 10,000 song copyrights, spanning multiple languages and genres. Downtown will control the…
NMPA President Says Spotify Treats Songwriters Like Uber Treats Drivers: ‘Is One Better Than the Other?’
Are both tech giants abusing the people that make their businesses possible? By opposing the Copyright Royalty Board’s (CRB) recent 44% increase on royalties for songwriters and publishers – the first in 110 years – Spotify, along with Pandora, Google,…
TuneCore Upgrades Music Publishing Administration Service
TuneCore has announced enhancements to its Music Publishing Administration services including faster song registration, an all-in-one solution for monitoring distribution and publishing, faster international royalty collection and an improved ‘splits’ process. Five years ago, TuneCore began offering Music Publishing Administration services for its distributed artists. TuneCore is the first company…
Building Your Dream Team: The Music Publisher
In this edition of Building Your Dream Team, AWAL breaks down the who, what, when, where, and why of the music industry’s matchmaking money hunter, the publisher. Here we look at the important role they play in gathering artist revenue, and how why they’ve taken center stage in the legally…
ASCAP Annual Collections Top $1 Billion Again — Up 7.26% Year-Over-Year
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) announced that annual collections from 2018 exceeded $1.227 billion. ASCAP saw a 7.26% increase in performance rights collections, up from $1.144 billion in 2017. The PRO notes that tot…
Downtown Music Publishing to Represent the Venerable Gershwin Catalog
Downtown Music Publishing has inked a new deal to represent the catalog of legendary songwriter George Gershwin. The new deal struck with the Godowsky family and Heyward Memorial Fund covers Gershwin’s entire catalog. Many of Gershwin’s most famous com…
Peloton Accuses Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell, UMPG of Illegal Price-Fixing & Collusion
Looks like major music publishers are in for a serious legal workout. Just weeks after being accused of massive copyright infringement, fitness-focused Peloton is clapping back against major music publishers Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell, and Universal Mus…
Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google Withhold Endorsement of the NMPA’s MLC Proposal
Major music publishers like Sony/ATV continue to battle questions over their proposal to lead the Mechanical Licensing Collective, or MLC. Earlier this week, the highly-influential Recording Academy also withheld its support for the NMPA’s MLC bid, tha…
50,000-Member Strong ESCA Endorses the AMLC; Slams the NMPA’s MLC Bid as a ‘Major Conflict of Interest’
Members of the 50,000-strong European Songwriter & Composer Alliance (ESCA) have solidly thrown their weight behind the American Mechanical Licensing Collection (AMLC) in its bid to lead the MLC. The influential European Songwriter & Composer A…