@theblakemorgan: #irespectmusic Rally at Cal State Chico Courtesy of SOTA Productions — Artist Rights Watch
via @theblakemorgan: #irespectmusic Rally at Cal State Chico Courtesy of SOTA Productions — Artist Rights Watch
Month: February 2017
Friends Don’t Let Friends Get LRFA’d: Tell Congress Not to Get Suckered into the Local Radio Freedom Act
Once again we’ve started a new session of Congress with really old news–the National Association of Broadcasters is yet again circulating the reactionary Local Radio Freedom Act (or the grammatically challenged “LRFA”) that’s been warmed over and served up again from the last Congress. LRFA’s purpose is twofold. Get unsuspecting Members to support a policy […]
Nothing But Money: Spotify’s New Offices Are Highest End of the Highest End Real Estate
Remember that Spotify is continually carping about how much they have to pay for their one product–music–and how they can’t seem to turn a profit? According to World Property Journal: Spotify, a digital music service provider, has signed a deal to acquire 387,243 sq. ft. of Class A office on lease at 4 World Trade […]
RIP Clyde Stubblefield
When I was a teenager, I used to rehearse with two other drummers both of whom were R&B players or what my friend Benny Valerio called “soul musicians”. I had a big drum kit and was very much a rock player, or at least I wanted to be. I suffered from what we called BS, […]
What do Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Deadmau5, Sam & Dave and The Beatles Have in Common with Hotel California? Facebook is Selling Their Names as Keywords
MTP readers will recall that there is a long history of Internet advertising companies selling keywords under dodgy circumstances. We have some documentation of this practice–starting in 2003ish an affidavit from the “DownloadPlace” litigation documents that Google suggested artist names as Google Adwords. In the Google drugs non prosecution agreement case, Google representatives sold drug-related […]
T-Bone Burnett’s Comments on Reform of the DMCA Safe Harbor
The U.S. Copyright Office has invited the public to comment on potential reforms of the DMCA “safe harbors” and the incomparable T-Bone Burnett delivered this video version of his insightful comments on DMCA abuse. (See also Billboard article on T-Bone’s comment and my 2006 post on MTP, The DMCA is Not An Alibi.) It is important […]
@chriswillman: @WriteGirlLA Teams Pro Songwriters With Local Youth to Create Original Music — Artist Rights Watch
The Saturday afternoon event is an annual highlight for WriteGirl, a charitable organization that puts on monthly mentoring workshops to help teen girls who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and underserved communities find their voices. via @chriswillman: @WriteGirlLA Teams Pro Songwriters With Local Youth to Create Original Music — Artist Rights Watch
@katenash: Royalty Deadbeat Snapchat Gets big billions for valuation, but has no licenses?
Hi @Snapchat Do you pay ppl for the use of their work? Been off a record label now for 5 years. Is this legal? I should be paid PLS RETWEET pic.twitter.com/9qq9iKltFG — Kate Nash (@katenash) February 17, 2017 Kate Nash leads the way for songwriters and artists who are wondering when the income transfer to […]
#IRespectMusic: It’s Time for the New Congress to get Serious About the Performance Right for Artists
Friends don’t let friends get LRFA’d. Once again we’ve started a new session of Congress with really old news–the National Association of Broadcasters is yet again circulating the reactionary Local Radio Freedom Act (or the grammatically challenged “LRFA”) that’s been warmed over and served up again from the last Congress. LRFA’s purpose is twofold. Get […] […]
If $500 million is “nonmaterial” then why does royalty deadbeat Facebook refuse to pay artists and songwriters?
MTP readers may have seen that Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality division lost a copyright infringement case in a $500,000,000 jury verdict for a variety of claims. While that seems like a lot of money to me, the verdict was far short of what was at stake. What is interesting about the case for our purposes […]
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