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Maria Schneider achieves important, incremental victory against YouTube

08 Aug 2022

One of Fair Trade Music’s international partners is Music Creators North America (MCNA), the umbrella group and international representative for the independent songwriter and composer communities of the United States and Canada. MCNA recently issued a press release declaring its…

“Fans deserve better” says Anita Baker in comments on music streaming

17 Mar 2021

// Industry News

One thing on which songwriters and music streaming platforms generally agree is that the more people that hear a song, the better. For the music creator, this certainly builds awareness of their work but as “exposure doesn’t pay the bills”,…

The key drivers for music streaming adoption in 2021

08 Mar 2021

// Industry News

The Mobile App Daily website has published a fascinating in-depth analysis of the key Spotify statistics driving music streaming adoption in 2021. In the article, writer Aparna Kaushik looks into the history of the company and reviews the strategies and…

SoundCloud prepares to launch user-centric streaming model

08 Mar 2021

// Industry News

SoundCloud, the digital audio distribution platform based in Berlin, is to become the first service of its kind to switch to a user-centric royalty model for 100,000 of its indie artists. Under this system, the amounts paid to artists are …

Mechanical Licensing Collective receives $424m in unmatched digital royalties

16 Feb 2021

// Industry News

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) today announced receipt of US $424m in accrued historical unmatched royalties from digital service providers. Also received were more than 1,800 data files, which contain in excess of 1.3 terabytes and nine billion lines of…

Led Zepplin guitarist joins call for equitable streaming payments to songwriters

14 Dec 2020

// Campaigns

British songwriter, guitarist and founding member of Led Zepplin, Jimmy Page, has added his voice to the campaign for digital music streaming companies to make fairer payments to songwriters. He made the comments in an open letter he felt “compelled”…

“Justice at Spotify” campaign launched by Union of Musicians and Allied Workers

27 Oct 2020

// Campaigns

A new artist-focused campaign has been launched in the US by the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers that aims to redress what it sees as an imbalance in the royalties paid out by streaming companies. The campaign is called…

Streaming platforms to appeal against decision to increase songwriter royalties

09 Apr 2019

// Campaigns

A report published by Variety has described plans by Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon to team up in an appeal to overturn a U.S. Copyright Royalty Board ruling that could increase payouts to songwriters by 44%. The four companies all…

New study analyses “Fair Compensation for Music Creators in the Digital Age”

28 Oct 2014

// Campaigns

The panel was organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) as part of their “Get Up. Stand up: For Music!” event and also featured a number of other composers and copyright experts.

Digital

Maria Schneider achieves important, incremental victory against YouTube

“Fans deserve better” says Anita Baker in comments on music streaming

The key drivers for music streaming adoption in 2021

SoundCloud prepares to launch user-centric streaming model

Mechanical Licensing Collective receives $424m in unmatched digital royalties

Led Zepplin guitarist joins call for equitable streaming payments to songwriters

“Justice at Spotify” campaign launched by Union of Musicians and Allied Workers

Streaming platforms to appeal against decision to increase songwriter royalties

New study analyses “Fair Compensation for Music Creators in the Digital Age”

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