Last year's payments to rights holders may have accounted for 20% of the value of global music copyright.
Music economist Will Page cites three case studies to examine the merits of SoundCloud’s approach to calculating royalties.
In a letter Monday, the streaming service said Spatial Audio tracks will receive a royalty rate up to 10% higher than content not available in the format.
The Other Songs, Facet Records and Good Boy Records are trying to start a record label revolution by looking after the songwriters that power their releases.
The Copyright Royalty Board has granted songwriters and publishers a royalty bump starting in January.
The newly-crowned Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 rings in some serious holiday cheer for its rightsholders every year.
The organization has formed a supplemental matching network with Blokur, Jaxsta, Pex, Salt and SX Works Global Publisher Services.
After topping this year’s Spotify Wrapped, Swift will earn more money than any artist ever has on the platform.
The coalition is calling for a reversal of a court ruling that found U.S. artists should get an equal share of public performance and broadcast royalties generated in the EU.
UMG says it's “patently false" that it took below-market rates in return for a stake in Spotify, but a judge says it wouldn't legally matter if they had.
