by Mark Zapata | Mar 21, 2019 | Editorials
The recent ruling by the Copyright Review Board has once again dragged into the light the issue of songwriter compensation. Songwriters and music streaming services have been quietly battling for a long time while the world enjoys access to millions of songs at the...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 15, 2019 | Editorials
In an aggressive move against songwriters, major streaming services have appealed a decision by the Copyright Royalty Board to increase royalty rates paid to artists. The ruling will increase royalty rates for artists by 44% over 5 years. The 2018 ruling was recently...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 13, 2019 | Editorials, News
The latest in the ongoing digital music streaming discussion has to do with artist compensation. Some headlines falsely accuse Sweden’s music streaming giant Spotify of “Suing songwriters” along with Amazon, Pandora and Google as the four leading...
by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 15, 2018 | News, Video
As Threatin pointed out, it’s quite simple to generate a following as well as build nonexistent companies and bands. With sites such as SocialBoss, you can add as many followers, likes, comments on nearly every social media platform. For only $29.99, you can...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 27, 2018 | News
For those die-hard Metallica fans out there, it appears you should listen to their music via Spotify. Not only that, you should be careful as to which songs you want to hear. According to Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek, these metal legends use analytics on the streaming...