Copyright and publishing law is complex enough, but once remixed enter into the equation, the amount of gray area can often double. Here Chris Robley details some of the complications that exist, and what steps you should take to make sure a remixer is compensated appropriately. __________________________ By Chris Robley…
Category archives: Publishing & Songwriting
SoundRoyalties Opens Nashville Office, Networking Space
[UPDATED] Sound Royalties has added a Nashville location. To oversee the expansion of the music industry specialty finance firm, Sound Royalties’ CEO and Founder Alex Heiche is now operating full time out of Nashville. The company will also host events and gatherings in its Nashville space, independently as well as…
Toolkit Essentials: DISCO – Catalog Management Made Easier
Following a fruitful year syncing music, Jake Udell expounds on some of his teams favorite elements of the catalog maintenance tool DISCO, a service which has streamlined many of the day to day sync operations. _________________________ Guest post by music manager Jake Udell from his Art of Manager We were…
QUICK HITS: ADA • Spirit Music Group • SACEM • UTA • Kirt Webster
Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) Worldwide has promoted David McGilvray to Senior Vice President, Radio Promotion. Having started his career in the music industry working for Bon Jovi Management and Mercury Records, McGilvray went on to spend 17-years with Island Def Jam. • Independent publisher Spirit Music Group, known for its…
4 Ways The Business Of Music Videos Will Dramatically Shift In 2019 [Cheri Hu]
In this piece, Cherie Hu speculates on four important way in which the music business, or more specifically the music video business, will radically transform in 2019 for both creators and consumers alike. ________________________ By Cheri Hu. This first appeared on Forbes. Speaking at the Cardozo School of Law on…
Kanye West Sues Roc-a-Fella, Def Jam, UMG, EMI and More
Kanye West has filed a pair of lawsuits against EMI Music Publishing and Roc-a-Fella Records, UMG Recordings, Def Jam and merchandiser Bravado International Group in an apparent attempt to free himself of all contractual obligations. The complaints were filed on Friday (January 25) in Los Angeles Superior Court, according to…
Royalty Exchange Passes $50 Million Paid Milestone
Royalty Exchange announced this week that it had paid out over $50 million from 535 royalty transactions in the three years since the company relaunched in 2016. 255 investors participated in the funding. Royalty Exchange is touting the marketplace as a funding source for the musical middle class with 52%…
Analysis Of Every Billboard Top 5 Song In 2018 – The Structure And Composition Of A Hit
Our friends at Soundfly have done an exhaustive breakdown of the musical structure and composition behind every song from the year that cracked the Billboard Top 5, revealing more than a few Drakes. _______________________________ Guest post by Dean Olivet of Soundfly’s Flypaper “My Mount Rushmore is me with four different…
Why We Need More (Quality) Music Journalism
In this piece James Shotwell argues that, as music industry becomes increasingly crowded with artists, the need for more music journalists grows, and that social media’s ability to fill this void is sorely lacking in the quality department. ___________________________ Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Music journalism matters more…
Dreamville Sessions: The Album Cycle Reimagined
Here Jake Udell explores how one artist is reinventing the traditional album cycle by using a marketing a strategy which goes past building anticipation, instead using the groundwork of fan loyalty to propel the release. ______________________ Guest post by Jake Udell of Art of Manager Study all the time, listen…