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2023

Justin Tranter’s Facet Records Offers Master Points to Songwriters on Every Release
Songwriters’ Streaming Royalties Have Been Determined (Finally)
Supreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in copyright fight over Prince images
Comedy rock band use 38 songs to prove how ‘every pop song’ uses the same four chords
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Reveals Class of 2023
Everything Is Interpolated: Inside Music’s Nostalgia-Industrial Complex 
Venues Need to Stop Shaking Down Artists for Every Last Dollar
Music Supervisors Brace for Impact of Potential Hollywood Writers Strike
Should Music Royalties Be Striking A Chord With Family Office Investors?
BMI Wins Rate Court Ruling to Get Songwriters Paid 138% More From Live Events
Metaverse Brings New Problems and Opportunities to Music Licensing
Metallica Acquires Furnace, One of America’s Largest Vinyl-Manufacturing Companies
Apple’s Money and Snoop Dogg’s Songs Back This $1 Billion Music Startup
After Winnie the Pooh, These Other Characters Will Soon Enter the Public Domain
If Michael Jackson’s Estate Earns $75M a Year, What’s It Worth?
Six Marketing Lessons From The Music Industry
20 Artists Who Made History at the 2023 Grammys Other Than Beyonce: Taylor Swift, Kim Petras, Viola Davis & More
The Billboard 2023 Power 100 List Revealed

2021

The 3 Major Music Companies Now Generate $2.5m Every Hour
How Future Proof Is the Current Evaluation of Music Copyrights?
Labels Are About to Become More Like VCs
Over 66% of All Music Listening In the US Is Now of Catalog Records, Rather Than New Releases
CNY Native Joe Bonamassa Auctioning Off ‘Game-Changing’ NFT for $350,000
How to Legally Clear Samples to Copyrighted Music
A Tribe Called Quest Say NFT Of Royalties Sold Without Their Blessing
Why NFT Sales in the Music Business Are Still the Wild West — and How It Might Be Tamed
Harry Fox Agency Can’t Dodge Lawsuit From Eminem’s Publisher
A Cure For Copyright Ills? NFTs Promise to Empower Creative Economies
NFT Sales Top $2 Billion In First quarter, With Twice As Many Buyers As Sellers
Guild of Music Supervisors Honoree Maureen Crowe Sounds Off on Importance of Her Profession Amid a Changing Industry
10 Music Supervisors to Watch in 2021
Guy Oseary, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban and Snoop Dogg Team for ‘Shark Tank’-Like ‘NFTs: The Pitch’
NFTs: What Songwriters and Music Publishers Need to Know
Linda Ronstadt Sells Catalog to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group
Crypto Art Could Become Primary Income for Musicians
Irving Azoff, Musician Orgs Hail California Bill to Cap Recording Contracts at 7 Years
Hipgnosis Reveals How It Values Songs (and That Its Catalog Is Worth Slightly More Than It Originally Forecast)
Spotify Unveils ‘Loud and Clear,’ a Detailed Guide to Its Royalty Payment System
Big Music Needs to Be Broken Up to Save the Industry
Why Non-Fungible Tokens Could Transform Who Gets Paid From Music Rights, and How
Grammys 2021: The Best Grammys Ever and It’s Not Even Close
Kings of Leon Think NFTs Are the Future of the Music Industry, But WTF Is An NFT?
Mark Cuban Explains NFTs: Get Over the Lack of Physical Ownership
The Great Gatsby’s Copyright Is Expiring. What to Know

2020

Who Owns That Song? ASCAP & BMI’s New Joint Data Platform Will Tell You
Black Artists ‘May Have Received Unfair Record Contracts’, Says BMG Report
This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs
Cosound Describe Themselves as the World’s First Audio Social Network
Over 2 Billion YouTube Users Are Now Playing Music Videos Every Month
Scooter Braun Sells Taylor Swift’s Big Machine Masters for Big Payday
Music Investors Don’t Stop Believin’ in Streaming
Primary Wave Music Publishing Strikes Deal with Olivia Newton-John
No Joke: Music Industry Veterans Turn to Royalty Collections for Comedians, Podcasters
The Music Industry Is Waking Up To Ethereum
Meet Merck Mercuriadis, The Man Who Has Spent $1bn On Old Hits
Universal Music To Build $1.2 Billion Hotel, Entertainment Destination In Biloxi, MS
BMG Eliminates ‘Poisonous’ Controlled Composition Clauses From Its US Record Contracts
Live Music Industry Collapse ‘Is Happening’ Says Venue Society
Kanye West’s War Against Record Contracts Could Actually Work — for Kanye, Anyway
New Music Drops Every Minute. But Back-Catalogs Are Driving the Industry’s Transformation
Live Events, Exclusive Performances And Brand Collabs: Why The Music Industry Should Be Tuning In To Cameo
“Electric Avenue” Singer Files Suit Against Trump Campaign for Copyright Infringement
Harry Fox Rival Music Reports Acquired By Private Equity Firm MidOcean Partners
Why Music Metadata Should Be Done First, Not Last, In the Recording Process
How Cardi B’s OnlyFans Subscription Could Generate Millioins Of Dollars Each Month
‘We Can Do It Ourselves’: R&B Singers Are Leaving Major Labels
Spotify Strikes New Licensing Deal With Universal Music Group
Music Rights: How To Sample Legally
How Music Supervisors Helped Starz’s ‘P-Valley’ Achieve Hip-Hop Parity
Eagles’ Don Henley Asks Congress To Change Copyright Law
Photographer Sues Microsoft for Millions Over Copyright Infringement
Many Streaming Retro Hits During Coronavirus
USPTO, Copyright Office Waive Deadlines Amid COVID-19
Joe Diffie, Nineties Country’s ‘Pickup Man,’ Dead at 61 From Coronavirus
10 Reasons Why Musicians Should Consider Selling Publishing & Masters
Emergency Coronavirus fund for songwriters worth up to $43m launched by GEMA in Germany – Music Business Worldwide
Coronavirus Cancellations: Hollywood Entertainment and Covid-19 | IndieWire
Grammy winning songwriter Ryan Tedder talks the impact of streaming and wearables on the music industry

2019

The 10 Highest-Grossing Broadway Shows of the Decade | Playbill
The Trump Administration Picks a Side in Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright Fight
Goldman Sachs Says 1.15BN People Will Pay for Music Streaming by 2030, as It Ups Industry Forecast
UMG Fights Musicians Who Wish to Terminate Copyright Grants

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