CRB Reform: A longer table for songwriter rate negotiations, not a kid’s table
Beware of “reformers” bearing gifts. Reforming the CRB requires more voices at the negotiating table.
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The Cross of Iron
But the truth is that we all should take Ike’s caution to heart. As he says, he addresses himself to “this world in arms.” It’s too convenient to point a finger and exclude ourselves from the accountability.
@northmusicgroup Calls Out The MLC’s Ability to Make “Law” Through Business Rules that Hurt Songwriters and Skew the Black Box to Benefit Majors — Artist Rights Watch–News for the Artist Rights Advocacy Community
In this comment to the Copyright Office, Abby North (independent publisher and Artist Rights Symposium III Moderator) calls on the Copyright Office to stop the MLC quango from unilaterally establishing “business rules” that hurt songwriters and their heirs and protect working families from these arbitrary actions of The MLC. @northmusicgroup Calls Out The MLC’s Ability to […]
It’s only Your Money: Taliban continue to crack down on Afghan women while US sends Taliban pallets of cash for “humanitarian aid”
“A large package containing around $40 million in cash for “humanitarian aid” was seen on an airport tarmac in Afghanistan, officials there said last week. The money was handed over to the Da Bank of Afghanistan, the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan, which is headquartered in Kabul. The bank tweeted several images of the cash. One […]
Quite a day
Pearl Harbor day.
@SenatorLeahy Starts the Countdown for MLC Review
Will Senate Judiciary hold hearings on re-designating the MLC?
The Curious Timing of “Spotify Untold” the Corporate Bio Book
[Update: This post first posted on July 25, 2019 while the authors of “Spotify Untold” were on their US tour marketing their Swedish language book. And then badaboom badabing, the book got optioned in August 2019 by Yellow Bird UK (which is a real production company, apparently home to the respected Swedish producer Berna Levin). […]
Judge Rejects Spotify’s Privilegium Regale Theory, Ek Must Be Deposed Under Oath
Judge Trauger rejected Spotify’s theory of privilegium regale that would have protected Daniel Ek from being deposed in the Eight Mile Style case against Spotify and the Harry Fox Agency. His Danielness will now have to submit to deposition testimony under oath in the case that seeks to show Spotify failed to comply with their […]
Is Universal coming to the party on unfrozen mechanicals?
My oh, my. The rumor is that Universal will propose a 12¢ unfrozen rate on vinyl and CDs and 10¢ on downloads.
@theblakemorgan: American middle-class musicians are worth fighting for #IRespectMusic
[Editor Charlie sez: Our friend and supporter Blake Morgan has an important opinion post on the bi-partisan American Music Fairness Act (AMFA) in The Hill, a long-time and influential DC insider journal. Blake tells the human story of why artists need the AMFA legislation and the #IRespectMusic campaign.] We musicians are used to fighting. For our livelihoods, […]
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