RE:SOUND, SOCAN now working Entandem
Promising to make music licensing easier and more streamlined, RE:SOUND and SOCAN have joined forces to create a single entity,
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Licensing
How Much Do Streaming Services Pay to Artists? Not Much. This Chart Illustrates Everything.
First, you can’t draw an equivalency between the stream of a song and a sale of a song. A stream
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I Swear I Heard This In A Commercial: How The Internet Handles Licensing
Earlier this week we talked about MixBANK, a licensing software designed to make legal remixes easy for both the DJ
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Is This Software the Future of Creating Legal Remixes Filled with Samples?
There’s a huge problem facing artists in the age of digital music. Programs for downloading and remixing songs make the
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Meet the People Who Decide Which Music Gets into Movies and TV
They’re called music supervisors and have the power to place your song in a movie, TV show or commercial, something
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Looking to Get Your Song into a Movie or TV? Beware of This.
Artists know that licensing their material for use in a movie or a TV show can be an important source
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“Sing”‘s Incredible Movie Music Licensing
You know when a movie has a lot of music in it when they can release an album’s worth as
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Very Little Consent over Decree Ruling
The dust has started to settle since the US Department of Justice announced, for certain, it would not be making
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ASCAP Settles Consent Decree Lawsuit
There’s been a big development in a longstanding lawsuit against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), better
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How Does Your Favourite Song End Up in a Commercial?
You’re watching TV and a commercial break comes on. The song in the background of the first ad is immediately
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Meet the Man Who’s Going After Spotify in the Name of Artists
I’ve grown to know Jeff Price over the last couple of months. We’ve had some long conversations about what he
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