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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

September 26, 2014

(Not) Happy Together: SiriusXM Ordered to Pay for Use of Pre-1972 Music

Last week, a California federal judge declared Flo & Eddie of The Turtles victors in their lawsuit against SiriusXM over the public performance of the duo’s pre-1972 sound recordings. Yes, this is big, big news with major repercussions for the music industry. The lawsuit, filed in 2013, addressed music created before sound recordings began receiving protection under federal […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Litigation, Public Performance Right, Sound Recording Tagged With: Flo & Eddie, Pandora, Pre-1972, public performance, SiriusXM, sound recordings, The Turtles

May 8, 2014

Casting a Net: Podcasts, Webcasts, and the Licensing Regime

So you want to start a music podcast.  Or, maybe a music webcast.  Regardless of which format you choose, you’ll need to acquaint yourself with copyright law and licensing.  But how easy it is to license the content you desire varies greatly on whether you opt for a podcast, where users download your episodes (much […]

Filed Under: Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Exclusive Rights, Licensing, Music Streaming Services, Public Performance Right Tagged With: ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, BMI, collective rights management agencies, compulsory license, contributory infringement, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, digital audio transmission, direct infringement, direct license, Entertainment Law, John Seay, licensing, master use license, mechanical license, musical composition, musical composition copyright, Pandora, performance royalty organization, podcast, Recording Industry Association of America, SESAC, SiriusXM, sound recording, sound recording copyright, SoundExchange, Spotify, the exclusive rights, The Harry Fox Agency, The Seay Firm, u.s. copyright act, vicarious infringement, webcast

March 17, 2014

I Read Ten Articles About Music Streaming Royalties And All I Got Was Confused

Even if you only casually follow the trials and tribulations of the modern music industry, you’ve probably seen some iteration of the following article on music streaming royalties: “My Song Got One Million Plays on Pandora and All I Got Was X Dollars.” Without question, music streaming royalties are granular.[1] But the dollar figures attached […]

Filed Under: Artist Revenue Streams, Atlanta entertainment lawyer, Background, Copyright, Digital Performance Royalties, Entertainment Law, Music Industry Insights, Music Industry Musings, Music Streaming Services, Public Performance Right Tagged With: Apple Radio, ASCAP, atlanta entertainment lawyer, Beats Music, BMI, Copyright Royalty Board, digital performance right, music streaming, Pandora, public performance right, SESAC, SiriusXM, SoundExchange, Spotify

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