Artists make are because they have to. There’s something in their hearts that forces them to turn what they feel inside into something the rest of us can see and hear and feel
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One of the worst insults you can throw at an artist is to accuse them of selling out. The most basic definition of this is when the pursuit of money compromises, corrupts, or
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I’d never heard of Caught a Ghost before this week. They’re an LA indie band with exactly one album to its name. But since it came out in 2014, Caught a Ghost has
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Promising to make music licensing easier and more streamlined, RE:SOUND and SOCAN have joined forces to create a single entity, Entandem. “Co-owned and overseen by RE:SOUND and SOCAN, Entandem brings the music licensing
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First, you can’t draw an equivalency between the stream of a song and a sale of a song. A stream is more like a listen on the radio. A sale is one-time purchase.
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Earlier this week we talked about MixBANK, a licensing software designed to make legal remixes easy for both the DJ and the artist being sampled. That’s all good, but that particular process is
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There’s a huge problem facing artists in the age of digital music. Programs for downloading and remixing songs make the process incredibly easy, so DJs and producers are churning out tons of music.
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They’re called music supervisors and have the power to place your song in a movie, TV show or commercial, something that could be a sweet source of revenue. But who are these power
Read MoreArtists know that licensing their material for use in a movie or a TV show can be an important source or revenue. Unfortunately, some musicians are learning that some producers are turning song
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You know when a movie has a lot of music in it when they can release an album’s worth as a soundtrack. Well, the movie “Sing” may take the cake on sheer volume.
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The dust has started to settle since the US Department of Justice announced, for certain, it would not be making any adjustments to the decades-old consent decrees that govern song licensing. The bottom
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