music royalties

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DJs are history. Streaming services can’t attract enough subscribers. Apple worries everyone with what they are planning to do with their anticipated “cloud” service. Music royalties have killed Internet radio and are a constant threat to the survival of the most popular Internet radio service of all – Pandora.
Apple doesn’t believe in putting FM….
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Writing a song ain’t easy, but getting paid for the music you create is even tougher. Recording artists depend on hit songs to sell records and generate income, and when they sign a record contract, they usually get a 7 to 10 percent cut of their album’s profits. If they write their own songs, the [...]

Matt Canham
sltrib

Orrin Hatch, Utah’s song-writing senator, is at odds with broadcasters and just about every member of the state Legislature over a bill that would require traditional radio stations to pay performers for the rights to air their music.
Hatch is the primary Republican sponsor of what he calls the Performance Rights Act. The measure, also [...]

Watch MTV, BET or open a copy of Rolling Stone, The Source or Spin
and you’ll be checking out some musical members of the
entertainment elite. The clothes, the jewelry, the cars, the clubs,
the houses… One might wonder where, exactly, all that money is
coming from. How much does the artist make from CD & MP3 sales?

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The decision by the Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday on payments to songwriters shows some of the advantages and disadvantages to having music royalties set by the government.
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It seems the NMPA has decided it is time for royalties to go up, and seeing as CD sales are on the decline, the record companies have pawned off the request to the digital download market. The current royalty rate is $.09 a song and they are requesting an increase to $.15, a hike [...]