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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

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

September 3, 2013

Should Songwriters Get Paid for Online Lyric Databases?

By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) The following article was inspired by, and borrows from, a study by University of Georgia professor and musician (Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker), David Lowery. I’m notoriously awful with song lyrics. Even for some of my favorite songs, there’s that awkward moment when I’m singing […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Lyric Copyright, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings Tagged With: ASCAP, BMI, david lowery, Digital Music News, lyric copyright, lyric databases, performance rights organization, PRO, SESAC

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