Category archives: publishing

Music Publishing News Roundup: Pandora + Music Reports • SOCAN + SACEM • Publishers Settle With 2 Major Labels

Pandora has announced a partnership with rights administration platform, Music Reports, to manage the mechanical licensing and royalty administration for its upcoming on-demand streaming service. The deal comes on the heels of two $150m+ class action lawsuits filed against Spotify over missing or inaccurate mechanical royalty payments to songwriters. Pandora…

Everything Wrong With The Spotify/NMPA Settlement

Following the filing of a class action lawsuit against Spotify, the popular streaming service announced that it had reached a landmark deal with the NMPA which it quickly tried to get publishers and songwriters to sign on to, a deal which is rife with problems, says the respected Future Of…

Indie Empresario Graham Stairs On The Music Industry, Great Songs And Staring A New Record Label

Here Odario Williams speaks with Graham Stairs about his new digital label imprint known as the Confidence Emperors, what its place is in the industry, and what he looks for in a song. __________________________________________________ By Odario Williams of Canadian hip hop band Grand Analog Graham Stairs got his start in…

What To Do When Your PR Campaign Didn’t Work: 5 Publicist-Approved Moves To Try Next

Even the best laid plans sometimes result in failure, but that’s no reason to give up. Here we look at how best to bounce back from a less-than-successful PR campaign, and what you can do to have better luck the next time around. ____________________________ Guest Post by Amy Sciarretto on…

Court Declares Remastered Old Songs Get Brand New Copyright

In a recent piece of bad copyright news, the courts have ruled that pre-1972 music should, in fact, receive a new copyright once it has been remastered, meaning copyright extensions can be piled on ad nauseam, without a track ever falling into the public domain. _____________________________ Guest Post by Mike…