October 2, 2020
Neighboring rights can be a complicated, confusing sector of the music industry, which is why it’s so important that organizations like IAFAR have made it their […]
August 28, 2020
Many have heard of the famous cryptocurrency named Bitcoin, but many have not heard of blockchain. Blockchain is the underlying technology that allows Bitcoin to function as a decentralized currency. Imagine blockchain as a shared database. Unlike the Cloud, where Google or Apple control all the data, a public blockchain is not controlled by a central authority. Instead, anyone connected to the internet can take part in storing the data. Because it is not controlled by one party, theoretically, a blockchain cannot be shut down, hacked, and most importantly, the data cannot be altered again. Cryptocurrencies are one tiny possibility of the power of blockchain.
March 9, 2020
This week, Spotify and Amazon are quite literally taking you to court. A great deal of the business of how much you get paid happens in a room a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Every five years a board of three judges sets your royalty rates for mechanical uses – including those in interactive streaming like Spotify and Amazon. Two years ago, in January of 2018, after months of argument, those judges gave you a 44% raise.
February 4, 2020
Publishing is, without a doubt, the most complicated (and sometimes straight-up confusing) subset of the music business. Even some of the most experienced music professionals can have a lot of trouble wrapping their head around all the intricacies and nuances of publishing. However, let’s not get ahead of ourselves — and start with the very basics.
October 18, 2019
Grants are an excellent form of funding for musicians. There are dozens of music grant organizations in the USA that regularly award cash to serious artists, allowing the recipients to focus entirely on furthering their music career in some way.
May 23, 2019
An icebreaker is a specialized ship that uses its momentum to move through the frozen surface of a body of water. But counterintuitively, its bow isn’t […]
May 23, 2019
This second artnet Intelligence Report drills down into the fact that art is never divorced from commerce, politics, or economics—much as we might like to think […]
May 22, 2019
Copyright is a topic with a lot of misconceptions and urban legends surrounding it. This makes it both simple and complicated to understand at the same […]
May 22, 2019
Sofar Sounds, the global intimate concert network, has raised $25m to fuel its future expansion around the world,