CD Baby is partnering with Music Gateway and its newly launched Sync Portal which allows 300+ global advertising agencies and 700 music supervisors to easily license tracks from CD Baby’s sync catalog of 2 million songs film, TV, commercials and video games. _______________________________ A new CD Baby and Music Gateway…
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YouTube’s Safe Harbor: The Push For Reform
With YouTube being the most used streaming service in the world, the pressure is building from major artists for a reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which currently grants the video site safe harbor provisions harmful to artists. ______________________ Guest post by Michael Kostaras from Berklee’s Music Business Journal….
SoundExchange To Continue To Distribute Most Pandora Royalties To Artists Despite Direct Licensing Deals
Royalties from Pandora’s ad-supported radio service will continue to be paid to artists through SoundExchange, despite recent direct licencing deals with major music companies. The agreement both insures a major income stream for SoundExchange and maintains the performing rights organization’s position as a protector of artists. ___________________________________ An agreement for…
Music Publishing News 1.13.17: Blackstone Acquires SESAC • IBM + SACEM = Better Music Tracking • Prince To Azoff’s Global Music
• US performing rights organization SESAC is now officially backed by Blackstone, one of the most powerful private equity companies in the world. SESAC says that Blackstone’s money will help the company to become a truly global rights management powerhouse across performance, mechanicals, sync, and ever master rights. SESAC, like…
Kobalt inks deal with Emeli Sandé’s Hard Copy Publishing
Sandé helms the London-based firm alongside artist manager and producer Lamar Jackson as MD
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‘If the livelihood of songwriters is threatened, the music industry as a whole is threatened’
Reservoir’s Golnar Khosrowshahi talks A&R and the publishing landscape
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Mike Sebastian Exits Given Music Publishing
VP/General Manager Mike Sebastian and Given Music Publishing have amicably agreed to part […]
Brett Young Celebrates First No. 1 With Co-writers On “Sleep Without You”
As equity would have it, the first No. 1 party of 2017 was hosted by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC […]
Mackenzie Johnson Signs With Spirit/Fluid
Mackenzie Johnson has signed with Spirit/Fluid, the Nashville-based joint venture between Spirit Music […]
Selling Artist Names As Keywords: Facebook’s Misappropriation Problem
Facebook seems to have something of legality issue on its hands, with the recent news that several artists, including Prince, Celine Dion, and The Beatles have had their names put up for sale as advertising keywords on the popular social network. ____________________________ Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology…