More on this to come, but Yesh Music has brought class actions against both Tidal and Slacker: Yesh’s case against Tidal is assigned to Judge Kimba M. Wood (who heard the Limewire case if memory serves and had an interesting encounter with one Fred Von Lohman when he worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation).  According […]

There’s another list circulating of some well-known artists who are not signed up for SoundExchange.  There’s always an implication somehow that this is the fault of SoundExchange as opposed to a failure on the part of the artist’s managers, business managers, accountants or lawyers. Newsflash: SoundExchange can’t force anyone to sign up as a featured […]

Remember when Kara Swisher reported (July 21, 2014): Omid Kordestani, who has just temporarily replaced Nikesh Arora as chief business officer of Google, is joining the board of Spotify, according to people with knowledge of the situation. In addition, sources said, one of the search giant’s former execs, Shishir Mehrotra, will become a special adviser to CEO Daniel […]

[Editor Charlie sez: This is a guest post by Keith Bernstein, CEO of Crunch Digital and its sister company Royalty Review Council.  In a nutshell, non-cash components of licensing agreements–like stock–have been a hot topic lately when The Verge “leaked” a copy of Sony’s agreement with Spotify.  Years ago, the statutory streaming mechanical license rules […]

Digital Music News is reporting that David Lowery sent a demand letter to Spotify around December 15, 2015 regarding Spotify’s failure to license some of his songs.  More about that later. What’s interesting about that is that it suggests that Lowery was getting nowhere with his November 9, 2015 complaint to the New York Attorney […]

MTP readers will remember that David Lowery sued Spotify for failing to license, account and pay mechanical royalties for David’s songs as well as those of a potential class.  Naturally the early maneuvering in Spotify’s response to the case has to do with whether a class action is the appropriate vehicle for pursuing what appears […]

Originally posted on The Trichordist:
?(I posted this on my facebook page 6 months ago. It continues to get shared so I’m updating and posting it here.) It amuses me to no end when people suggest that artists can make up for recorded music revenues with live music revenues. These are people who obviously know…