GigaomSpotify CEO shoots back at Taylor Swift, and he has a point
In the fight over how to distribute music, who is right: Spotify or Taylor Swift? Read more »
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In the fight over how to distribute music, who is right: Spotify or Taylor Swift? Read more »
SoundCloud is reportedly negotiating with major labels, offering them an equity stake and per-play fees in exchange for being able to use their music. This means the service is about to… Read more »
From Amazon’s point of view the licensing fees it pays rights owners are merely part of the subscriber acquisition costs for Prime’s two-day shipping plan — a number Amazon needs to… Read more »
The Justice Department will reexamine rules that require music publishers to license their song catalogs to everyone on a more or less equal basis. Read more »
From the review of Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable to the FCC’s proposed reboot of its overturned net neutrality rules, policymakers are playing a key role in shaping the… Read more »
Spotify’s payments to record companies and publishers are pegged to its gross revenue, and increase roughly in proportion to the increase in Spotify’s user base. Performance royalties paid to artists, however,… Read more »
Unlike in the music industry, digital technology has not yet changed how the money flows in the TV business or (for the most part) who gets it. If and when it… Read more »
Different rights owners and middlemen –including artists — have claims on different music revenue streams and can’t simply substitute one for another. Read more »
Pandora can get the benefit of a 2010 agreement it reached with ASCAP, which provides licenses for the music industry; ASCAP can’t narrow the license even though music labels want to… Read more »
Apple is unlikely to launch an advertising-only streaming service a la Pandora given that no one –including Pandora — has been able to make money that way. The more likely scenario… Read more »