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February 17, 2015

A Musician’s Guide to Metadata: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

By Michelle Davis, UGA Law Class of 2015 Metadata, generally speaking, is data that describes other data. In the context of music, metadata is the identifying and descriptive information embedded in a digital song file. For example, when you play a song in iTunes, metadata is used to populate the “artist,” “song title,” and “album” fields. […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Entertainment Law, Metadata, Music Industry Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BandsInTown, BMI, Content ID, Future of Music Coalition, itunes, Mediabase, metadata, Nielsen BDS, performance rights organization, SESAC, Shazam, SoundExchange, SoundScan, The Music Business Toolbox, YouTube

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

November 25, 2012

Flagpole Magazine Publishes John Seay’s Article on Artist Revenue Streams

By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Last week, Flagpole Magazine, the independent alt-weekly of Athens, Ga., published an article written by John Seay.  The article discusses a handful of quick ways in which artists can make a few extra bucks, and is reprinted–with permission–in full below. Alms for the Poor: […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Public Performance Right, YouTube Partner Program Tagged With: Alliance of Artists and Record Companies, ASCAP, BMI, digital performance royalties, Future of Music Coalition, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SoundExchange, YouTube Partner Program

May 18, 2012

Artist Revenue Streams, Part 2: Understanding The Revenue Lingo

By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) Part 1 of this blog posts discusses the Artist Revenue Streams project and provides   insight on monetizing activities in the music industry and its related fields.  Part 2 of this blog post provides helpful definitions of common industry terms relating to revenue. In my […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Background, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights Tagged With: AARC, Artist Revenue Streams Project, ASCAP, BMI, crowd-funding, digital performance royalties, Entertainment Law, Future of Music Coalition, Indiegogo, interactive service payments, Kickstarter, Mechanical royalties, pubiic performance royalties, SESAC, synch licenses, YouTube Partner Program

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