labels are not required to pay royalties on “free goods” that reflect discounts provided to the distributors’ customers, they take deductions for the cost of packaging, and they reduce royalty rates when distribution is through the use of “new technology” or ...
Apple Musichopes to increase its Spatial Audio music offering by paying artists up to 10% more royalties as long as they've published songs in the format. Dolby Atmos music, which Apple has dubbed Spatial Audio music,launched in 2021on Apple Music. The feature hasproven popularfo...
” Like many young artists, they had released “Mia Khalifa” using TuneCore, a digital distributor that places music on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music, and pays artists royalties from streams—but it doesn’t license songs to TikTok. (TuneCore did not respond to requests to com...
ASCAP and BMI, the two largest performing-rights organizations, are limited in their ability to fight for more. They collect royalties at a rate governed by decades-old federal statute. Global Music Rights isn’t under the same limitations. Music manager Irving Azoff founded Global Music Rights ...
which caused Sting to take legal action: He sued for a chunk of royalties and won. So while Sting may not have personally “charged” Diddy for the sample, the fact remains that he gets a percentage of whatever royalties the song earns, whether it adds up to $2,000 per day — th...
After all the production, editing, marketing, and author’s royalties are paid (see graph), the publisher actually only sees about $4.05 in return, but that’s before any of the overhead bills are paid. Compare this to $12.99 digital price. In the new set-up with Apple, the publishers...
We find this to be a disgusting bit of bullshit virtue signaling. Why? With the possibly a couple rare exceptions*, TikTok is not paying writers performance or mechanical royalties despite the fact they clearlypublicly perform,make available and distribute copiesof songs to their billion or so us...
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how it plans to fix the problem, Spotify will be charging labels and distributors when it detects artificial streaming and work on removing tracks that are simply white noise or static, as well as requiring functional noise recordings to be at least two minutes in order to generate royalties. ...