wax&wires tv – Episode 004
EPISODE 4
In this episode:
- Performance Rights Organizations (BMI vs. ASCAP vs…)
- Aqualung
- Parallel and Two-Stage Compression
wax&wires tv – Episode 003
EPISODE 3
In this episode:
- Skunks
- Royalties, Pandora and the New Deal
- Spotify U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!
- EMI in the troubles
- The Bird And The Bee
- Promoting your band (get off the internet!)
Eminem Sues Universal for Royalties on Downloading
[via RollingStone] Eminem’s two-year-old lawsuit against Universal Music Group over digital music royalties finally entered a courtroom today, the Wrap reports. In a trial featuring star witnesses like UMG head Jimmy Iovine and Apple’s Steve Jobs, Slim Shady’s publishing company F.B.T. Productions is seeking more royalties from purchases made using digital music services like Jobs’ [...]
Bill Backs Payment To Musicians For Radio Play
Songwriters get paid every time one of their songs is played on the radio; the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 4789) would do the same for the musicians who played on the recording. With income from CDs and download sales on the wane, they could use the money. Under current law, musicians get a big fat [...]
Judge: Illegal Downloads Don’t Equate To Lost Sales
US District Judge James P. Jones has ruled that copyright holders cannot equate each illegal download with a lost sale. Just because somebody downloaded your song, doesn’t mean that they would have purchased it otherwise. Practically what that means is that you cannot seek restitution based on the amount that hypothetically would have been gained [...]
Warner Orders YouTube to Pull Videos
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Contract negotiations between Warner Music Group and YouTube broke down last week prompting Warner to order the removal of all WMG content from YouTube. The order pertains not only to artists currently on Warner Music’s major labels, but also extends to all songs published on Warner/Chappell music.
Warner was the first major media company to negotiate a contract with YouTube back in 2006. Warner, along with Universal Music Group and Sony Music, took stakes in YouTube back in that same year as part of contract negotiation deals, and profited when Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion shortly thereafter. Warner feels that their 2006 contract brought legitimacy to YouTube, strongly contributing to the Google acquisition.
YouTube currently pays WMG on a per-play basis…
Social Networking Sites Abandon Ship On Music Apps
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Just a few days after MySpace disabled the Project Playlist app, Facebook decided to do the same.
For those that aren’t as familiar with Project Playlist, it’s a web application that lets you create, share and manage music you enjoy. After creating a playlist of your favorite songs, you can then embed your playlist onto any site; most notably MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, hi5 etc. Project Playlist boasts “the largest music search engine on the net” and the “most popular music widget in the world”, according to their site…
Well now Project Playlist has found itself in a decent amount of trouble with the RIAA.
