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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

October 24, 2013

The Seay Firm Contributes Article to Copywrite

John Seay, founder of The Seay Firm LLC, recently contributed an article to the Fall 2013 edition of Copywrite, the newsletter for the State Bar of Georgia Entertainment and Sports Law Section.  The article, which you can download and read here, discusses recent attempts by Pandora to effectively lower the amount of royalties they pay […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Public Performance Right Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BMI, digital performance royalties, Entertainment Law, John Seay, Pandora, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SoundExchange, The Seay Firm

March 5, 2013

Why Pandora Wants to Pay Less and What It Means for Licensing Reform

By John Seay, Atlanta Entertainment Lawyer: The Seay Firm LLC (@TheSeayFirmLLC) On September 21, 2012, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) introduced H.R. 6480, better known as the Internet Radio Fairness Act (IRFA). If passed, IRFA would drastically reduce the amount of royalties that webcasters like Pandora pay to owners of sound recordings by directing the Copyright […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Background, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Public Performance Right Tagged With: ASCAP, BMI, digital performance royalties, Pandora, Public performance royalties, SESAC, SiriusXM, SoundExchange, Spotify

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