Category archives: publishing

Google, Amazon Leverage Copyright Loophole To Use Songs, Not Pay Songwriters [Chris Castle]

To avoid properly compensating songwriters, big data purveyors Amazon and Google are claiming they are unable to find contact information for the deserving songwriters, instead opting to file copyright notices in what appears to be a music land grab, says Chris Castle. _____________________________ Guest post by Chris Castle of Music…

Music Publishing News Roundup 10.14.16: Dylan’s Nobel • ‘Unofficial’ Content To Spotify, Apple Music • BMI + Song Arts Academy

Bob Dylan becomes the first musician ever in history to earn the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature is being awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the Swedish Academy. Although Dylan has enjoyed perennial…