Two Is the Loneliest Number: Why are songwriters punished for 1909?
Why are we still arguing about a 2¢ royalty instead of a new numbering system?
Category: mechanical royalty
Less Than Zero: CRB Should Index Song Rates #irespectmusic
September inflation tells songwriters to demand indexing for mechanicals at the Copyright Royalty Board.
@thetrichordist: Will the Copyright Royalty Board Leave Songwriters In the Deep Freeze?
Shenanigans at the CRB may leave songwriters in the deep freeze.
Results and Recommendations of the Artist Rights Watch MLC Awareness Survey
Some surprising results from the MLC Awareness Survey
Happy New License Availability Date!
Should old acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind? Auld Lang Syne, by Robert Burns If you’ve gotten accustomed to regular mechanical royalty checks every month or quarter paid directly to you (or your publisher) by streaming services or for downloads like iTunes, fasten your seatbelt. You may have some surprises coming in this time […]
Controlled Compositions Clauses and Frozen Mechanicals
[EDITOR CHARLIE UPDATE: The NMPA and the NSAI are trying to freeze mechanical royalties on physical and downloads for another five years by appearing before the Copyright Royalty Board. You can read some of the comments on MTP–the comment that Chris drafted for Helienne Lindvall, David Lowery and Blake Morgan is here, and you can […]
Copyright Office Regulates @MLC_US: Selected Public Comments on MLC Transparency: @KerryMuzzey
[Editor Charlie sez: The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing many different ways to regulate The MLC, which is the government approved mechanical licensing collective under MMA authorized to collect and pay out “all streaming mechanicals for every song ever written or that ever may be written by any songwriter in the world that is exploited […]
The MTP Podcast: Revenue? What Revenue? Don’t be fooled on royalty audits vs. financial audits
BLANCHE Whoever you are…I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. From A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams From Highlights of Managing Change under the Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective (footnotes omitted. A version of this article appears as How Will the Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective Work? in 34 Entertainment […]
Time to Audit? Tunecore is Getting Sold–Do Your Clients Believe?
BLANCHE Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. From A Streetcar Named Desire, screenplay by Tennessee Williams Hypebot is reporting that Believe Digital is offering itself for sale: Believe Digital is for sale and units associated with at least two of the three major label groups have expressed strong interest, […]
Five Things Congress Could Do for Music Creators That Wouldn’t Cost the Taxpayer a Dime Part 3: Create an Audit Right for Songwriters
[This post originally appeared in the Huffington Post] Once a song is distributed to the public with the permission of the owner of the copyright in the song, the U.S. Copyright Act requires songwriters to license songs for reproduction and distribution under a “compulsory license.” This license is typically called a “mechanical license” because it […]
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