Licensing Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Here’s how an unknown band can make money in the world of sync and licensing–and what it implies for the future

I’d never heard of Caught a Ghost before this week. They’re an LA indie band with exactly one album to

Promising to make music licensing easier and more streamlined, RE:SOUND and SOCAN have joined forces to create a single entity,

First, you can’t draw an equivalency between the stream of a song and a sale of a song. A stream

Earlier this week we talked about MixBANK, a licensing software designed to make legal remixes easy for both the DJ

There’s a huge problem facing artists in the age of digital music. Programs for downloading and remixing songs make the

They’re called music supervisors and have the power to place your song in a movie, TV show or commercial, something

Artists know that licensing their material for use in a movie or a TV show can be an important source

You know when a movie has a lot of music in it when they can release an album’s worth as

The dust has started to settle since the US Department of Justice announced, for certain, it would not be making

You’re watching TV and a commercial break comes on. The song in the background of the first ad is immediately

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver