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September 19, 2016

Paid In Full: How to Collect Royalty Payments

Below is the full text of an article that was broken up and initially published on Immersive ATL. You recorded an album and released it online. Now you just sit back and wait for the checks to roll in, right? If only it were that easy. Last year, a Berklee College of Music report found […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Exclusive Rights, Licensing, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording, SoundExchange, Uncategorized Tagged With: AdRev, artist revenue streams, ASCAP, Audiam, BMI, CDBaby, digital performance royalties, Harry Fox, IndMusic, Marmoset, mechanical license, music streaming, performance rights organization, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SiriusXM, SoundExchange, Soundstripe, Spotify, TuneCore, YouTube

July 7, 2016

Paid in Full 01: The Basics

I was recently asked to contribute a series of articles on artist revenue streams to Immersive Atlanta. What follows is the first installment of that series. And here is a link to the article as posted on the Immersive Atlanta site. PAID IN FULL is a new limited weekly series written by Atlanta entertainment lawyer […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Exclusive Rights, Music Streaming Services, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording, SoundExchange, Spotify Tagged With: artist revenue streams, Copyright, digital performance royalties, music streaming, public performance, Public performance royalties, revenue streams

August 16, 2013

How Do Bands Make Money: Survey Identifies Band Behaviors

How do bands make money? United Kingdom-based Right Chord Music recently released the results of a small, 200-participant survey of mostly independent musicians. According to the survey, 75% of the participants were unsigned independent musicians. Based on that fact and some of the other numbers from the survey, we can conclude that the musicians answering the […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Entertainment Law, Forming a Band, How Do Bands Make Money, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, YouTube Partner Program Tagged With: artist revenue streams, atlanta entertainment lawyer, bandcamp, digital music, Entertainment Law, facebook, Future of Music Coalition, how do bands make money, itunes, right chord music, soundcloud, Spotify, twitter, vinyl, YouTube

August 12, 2013

How To Make Money On YouTube

by John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) I subscribe to a listserv called Digital Music News and so should you. Every weekday morning, I receive an email with story blurbs and links to articles that illuminate—or in some cases, further obfuscate—some aspect of the music industry. Today, my daily email blast […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Background, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, YouTube Partner Program Tagged With: artist revenue streams, Brandon Martinez, Digital Music News, Entertainment Law, IndMusic, monetization, YouTube, YouTube Partner Program

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