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6 Ways Music Streaming Services Have Positively Changed the Music Industry and more

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6 Ways Music Streaming Services Have Positively Changed the Music IndustryMakeUseOfMusic streaming services aren’t perfect, but they’ve surely changed the music industry for the better. In November 2014, Taylor Swift famously pulled her discography from Spotify, citing underwhelming artist compensation. Several other artists have also taken similar measures to protest the seemingly unfair deal. Virgin … Read more

The Copyright Office Sends Modernized Regrets and more

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The Copyright Office Sends Modernized Regrets thetrichordist As we reported in a prior post about George Johnson’s grass roots effort to ask the Copyright Office to review that status of the compulsory license which… Read more “The Copyright Office Sends Modernized Regrets”… Lainey Wilson, Darius Rucker & The Cadillac Three Become Voices For ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ … Read more

YouTube explains the Shorts algorithm in 2023 and more

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YouTube explains the Shorts algorithm in 2023 (Video) RouteNote Blog YouTube’s Creator Liaison, Rene Ritchie sat down with Director of Shorts Product Management, Todd Sherman to discuss the Shorts algorithm on the Creator Insider channel. This video follows on from a video earlier this year from the same channel on understanding the YouTube algorithm for … Read more

Music Biz Member Record Store Day Launches 2023 Edition of RSD Unsigned Competition and more

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Music Biz Member Record Store Day Launches 2023 Edition of RSD Unsigned Competition News Archive – Music Business Association Record Store Day organizers have partnered with Breed Media to launch the 2023 edition of the RSD Unsigned competition, which will provide a rising independent artist with a pressing of 500 records on more sustainably sourced … Read more

Musicologist Ewan Simpson Says Steely & Clevie’s Reggaetón Lawsuit Has A “Racial Element” and more

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Musicologist Ewan Simpson Says Steely & Clevie’s Reggaetón Lawsuit Has A “Racial Element” Music Industry News … more sophisticated markets for music and creativity that put … European musicians borrowed elements of the genre in their music or … worked with reggae musicians on certain … and some amount of copying musical elements, not just … Read more

Google and Universal Music Group: Artist Compensation in the Era of AI and more

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Google and Universal Music Group: Artist Compensation in the Era of AI arielpublicity It would be nice to be paid for your work, wouldn’t it? To make sure you’re getting all the royalties you deserve, the hidden income that you might not even know you’re owed? Part of this is where PROs come in of … Read more

How robots are replacing talent scouts in the crisis-ridden music industry and more

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How robots are replacing talent scouts in the crisis-ridden music industryThe Telegraph – The heady days of the hard-living A&R man are long gone. Veterans of the profession explain how streaming and social media are taking over…As former A&R man John Niven wrote in his dark music industry novel Kill Your Friends, A&Rs are “the … Read more

Music Biz Member BMG Inks Catalog Publishing Deal With The Chemical Brothers and more

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Music Biz Member BMG Inks Catalog Publishing Deal With The Chemical Brothers News Archive – Music Business Association Berlin-based music company, BMG has struck a publishing deal with UK Electronic music duo, the Chemical Brothers to consolidate their entire publishing catalog. Per the partnership, the Chemical Brothers’ first seven albums, major hits and No. 1 … Read more