Last week we asked readers how they feel about Grooveshark. Check out the interesting results from that poll…
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Music Publishing & Copyright
Let me start by saying I don’t like Grooveshark. Actually, in my opinion, they knowingly and willingly use a legal loophole to steal from artists and songwriters. Even worse, they try to defend themselves by having the attitude of “hey, we love artists and all we are doing is trying to support them.” What a load of crap. And as many of you may know, they are getting sued left and right for copyright infringement.
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Do you use Grooveshark? Or do you find its practices to be immoral? Let us know how you feel on this week’s poll…
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As the debate goes on about if streaming services are paying out enough royalties to artists, there is one thing that is not debatable: in the United States, artists and songwriters/publishers are not getting the entire amount, or any, of the additional 10.5% royalty owed to them from “interactive” streaming services like Spotify, Rhapsody, Slacker, MOG, Rdio, etc. (and the music services aren’t really to blame).
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TuneCore Founder/CEO Jeff Price will be in Toronto for Canadian Music Week 2012! Come by for these 2 events taking place as part of the festival’s Songwriter Summit: Solo Presentation: “How To Get Your Money” When: Saturday, March 24th, 3:30 – 4:20 PM Where: The Fairmont Royal York, Salon A If you have ever written [...]
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In today’s world your songs can generate money and royalties via the traditional “Physical/Analog” music industry or the new “Digital” music industry. There are in fact 13 different and specifics ways that you as a songwriter can make this money off of your songs.
Note – each income stream and type of royalty is generated off the original recording of a song (i.e. the Beatles version of Paul McCartney’s song “Yesterday”) or off of a cover of the song (i.e. if multiple artists cover the song, the song becomes an “x” factor multiplier for revenue). In the case of “Yesterday,” there are over 25,000 covers.
We’ve broken these income types into two categories:
-Physical/Analog Songwriter Royalties and Revenue
-Digital Songwriter Royalties and Revenue
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