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Bring Back the Oldies – Legislation for Equal Treatment in the Music Industry
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Spotify Removes Music by “Hate Bands” From Its Platform
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The Four Things You Should Know When You Request a Music License
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What Exactly Is Stream-Ripping, The New Way People Are Stealing Music
By Hugh McIntyre, 11 August 2017
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Round Hill Music Brings Private Equity Cash to Hitmakers From the Beatles to the Offspring
By Robert Levine, 11 August 2017
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TuneIn Raises $50 Million to Prove Online Audio Can Make Money
By Lucas Shaw, 11 August 2017
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Life After Death: Musicians Are Coming Back to the Stage Thanks to Holographic Technology
By Daniel Bukszpan, 12 August 2017
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Federal 'Transparency' Bill Endangers Songwriters' Leverage for Getting Paid
By Robert Levine, 11 August 2017
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As Facebook Ramps Up Its Video Offering, Is It More Likely to Feel the Music Industry’s Wrath?
By Chris Cooke, editor, 11 August 2017
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SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
By Josh Constine 11 August 2017
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NAB: Don’t Just "Shift Burdens" If Modernizing Rules
By Susan Ashworth, 10 August 2017
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Why Apple Aims to Reduce Its Label Distribution
By Rachel Gunter, 10 August 2017
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Why a Top Obama Adviser is Looking at Concert Ticket Pricing to Help the Nation’s Economy
By Robert Levine, 10 August 2017
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Warner/Chappell Copyright Claim Over YouTube Video Deliberately Containing None of Its Music
By Tim Cushing, 10 August 2017
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LG Partners With NextRadio to Preload FM Radio App on Phones
By John Anon, 10 August 2017
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GMR Offers Commercial Radio 6 Month Extension of Interim License to Play Their Songs
By Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP, 9 August 2017
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Consultations Launched on Reforming Copyright Board of Canada, 9 August 2017
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Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘When People Said The Music Industry Was Over, We Didn't Listen’
By Tim Ingham, 10 August 2017
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How to Claim Your Piece of Spotify’s $43.5 Million Songwriter Settlement
By Daniel Sanchez, 8 August 2017
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RIAA Urges Court to Keep Cloudfare Order in Place in Relation to MP3Skull Domains
By Chris Cooke, 9 August 2017
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Four More Years: iHeartMedia Extends President Role for Darren Davis
By Tatiana Cirisano, 8 August 2017
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Does Sensenbrenner Bill Mean It’s Time For a Grand Jury?
By David Lowery, Trichordist, 8 August 2017
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A Journal of Music Things
Warner Music Latest Major Label to Make More from Streaming Than from Sales
By Alan Cross, 9 August 2017
Opinion
IQ Magazine
Forget Politicians: The Biz Must Take Control of Ticketing
By Patrick Kirby, managing director of white-label paperless ticketing platform Tixserve, 9 August 2017
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Variety
It’s Time to Bring Pre-1972 Copyrights Out of the Dark Ages
By Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA-49), 7 August 2017
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Royalties, Investors, and the New Music Economy
By Antony Bruno, Royalty Exchange, 8 August 2017, by Eriq Gardner
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Judge Rules Kickass Torrents Founder Properly Charged With Criminal Copyright Conspiracy
by Eriq Gardner, 7 August 2017
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WMG Reports Strong Q3 Driven By Streaming Revenue
by Bruce Houghton, 8 August 2017
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Tidal Hires New CEO: Is The Fourth Time a Charm? 7 August 2017
by Dawn Chmielewski
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Industry Insider: Antony Bruno of Royalty Exchange Explains New Way to Get Paid for Royalties
By Ryan Middleton, 4 August 2017
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Digital Music News
Spotify CEO, 2013: “I’m Absolutely Sure That Artists Will Make a Decent Living in the Next Few Years.”
By Paul Resnikoff, 6 August 2017
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‘US Should Include Fair Use and Safe Harbors in NAFTA Negotiations’
By Ernesto Van der Sar, 6 August 2017
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War Erupts Over Whose Global Music Rights Database Is Better
By Daniel Sanchez, 4 August 2017
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Music Technology Policy
Making Fake Art: “1984”, The New Rembrandt and the “Fake Artist”
By Laura Kobylecky, 5 August 2017
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Inside the Music Publishing World's Epic Struggle to Build a Single Song Database
By Ed Christman, 2 August 2017
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Facebook is hiring for a music publishing head in Europe, 2 August 2017
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Spotify has reached a new subscriber milestone - and there's no sign of slowing down
By Kevin Tran, 2 August 2017
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How To Collect Your Share Of $43.5 Million Spotify Songwriter, Publisher Settlement
By Bruce Houghton, 2 August 2017
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Harry Styles Helps Push Sony Music Revenues Up 11%, As Downloads Claim Just 13% Of Firm's Sales
By Tim Ingham, 1 August 2017
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NPR
New Bill Calling For Transparency In Music Is Surprisingly Opaque
By Andrew Flanagan, 1 August 2017
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SESAC’s US radio deal hailed as ‘historic benchmark’ for new era of broadcast royalties
By Tim Ingham, 1 August 2017
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The Star Wars video that baffled YouTube’s copyright cops
By Jeremy Hsu, 2 August 2017
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The Trichordist
Sensenbrenner’s Extreme Moral Hazard: Bill rewards infringers and punishes songwriter victims
By David Clowery, 2 August 2017
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Music Technology Policy
Controversial Bill On Music Licensing Has Nothing to Do with Small Business
By Chris Castle, 1 August 2017
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Pandora Lost $407M In The First Half Of 2017 – And Continues To Shed Listeners
By Tim Ingham, 1 August 2017
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Sony Puts New Diplo Single Behind Streaming Paywall In India
By Tim Ingham, 1 August 2017
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SESAC, Radio Music Licensing Committee Both Claim Victory in Price War
By Paula Parisi, 31 July 2017
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RIAA argues that Spinrilla doesn’t have safe harbour protection
By Chris Cooke, 1 August 2017
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Spotify passes 60 million users as stock market listing looms
By Chris Cooke, 1 August 2017
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Spotify Storms Past 60M Subscribers, Now Adding More Than 2M A Month
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