The vast majority of music streaming platforms today pay artists on a pro-rata model. This is a system that pools money generated by the service,…
New investment opportunities are arising in the contemporary marketplace for music fans and investors. Enabled by the positive market turnaround streaming has brought upon the…
Despite the immense size of China’s music streaming market, Chinese recorded music revenues are minimal. The country made the Top 20 in the IFPI’s ranking…
Record labels and publishers for decades served as the music industry’s “bank.” They provided the advances artists lived on while making new music, and also…
Apple revolutionized the music industry with the launch of the iPod and iTunes in 2003, when it became the first company to monetize music successfully…
In the era of the Internet, it is still difficult to obtain information about the ownership and control of musical rights and works. This can…
Fair use has always been a contentious concept. A great number of musicians, as well as artists of other varieties, include copyrighted material in their…
After the music industry was shocked in the early 2000s by the growth of piracy and file sharing, many investors were skeptical about the future…
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two installments dealing with DIY issues. We printed the first in August 2014. There, Fuller covered music production,…
Recent negotiations between Clear Channel Communications and Warner Music Group have sent shockwaves throughout the recording industry. For the first time on a major scale,…
When Pandora Internet radio entered the market with a strong initial public offering in 2011, a reporter from Bloomberg TV asked the Chairman and CEO,…
It is true that in recent years technology has been challenging the entertainment industry, not only allowing a widely unauthorized circulation of copyrighted works, but…
The arrival of Spotify to the United States in July of 2011 brought a lot of attention – good and bad – to the newest…
Chris Woods is the cofounder and COO of TuneSat. Since launching in 2009, TuneSat has helped rights holders collect millions of dollars that would otherwise…