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Non-Disclosure Agreements: What They Are and Why They're Annoying
What-is-a-non-disclosure-agreement.jpg Wide by Michelle Davis, FMC Legal InternLet’s say you’re approached by David Copperfield (it’s OK, don’t run!), and he asks you to be an audience plant for his...
View ArticleFMC Filing in USPTO Internet Policy Task Force "Green Paper"
Comments address issues related to copyright, creativity and the internet November 13, 2013 Filing Future of Music Coalition filed the following comments with the United States Patent and Trade Office...
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Keeping it Real for Musicians in the World of Policy
keepitreal.jpg Narrow Here at FMC, we regularly engage in a kind of protracted dialog with government through public comments and other filings that can extend over years (actually, thirteen and...
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Spotify Makes a Move Towards Transparency
spotify.jpg Narrow Yesterday, on-demand music streaming service Spotifydid something pretty big by explaining in detail how it calculates and pays out royalties to rightsholders. With so many music...
View ArticleFuture of Music Coalition Filing in Copyright Office Music Licensing Study
Copyright Office sought stakeholder input on the state of music licensing in America May 23, 2014 Comments Author: Casey Rae Future of Music Coalition submitted the following comments to the United...
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Jeff Price of Audiam on YouTube Music Key
YouTube-Music-Key.jpg Narrow Guest post by Jeff Price, founder, AudiamInitially by accident, and perhaps later by design, YouTube became the number one destination site on the planet for music...
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Transparency: Why it Matters to a Global Digital Marketplace
shutterstock_223664227_0.jpg Wide Welcome to Part Three of FMC’s look at transparency in the music industry. In previous posts, we highlighted three specific areas of transparency to address. Here’s a...
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A Look at ASCAP's ACE Title Search
musicnote.jpg Narrow Have you ever used ASCAP’s ACE Title Search? We did, just the other day. A friend was trying to contact the publishers of an almost-but-not-quite public domain ditty to obtain...
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Five Things To Understand About That Spotify Contract Leak
18iwgcfj83c3gpng.png Wide Last week, technology news site The Vergepublished a partial leaked copy of a 2011 contract between major label Sony and leading interactive streaming service Spotify. The...
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Some Questions About Apple's New Music Offerings
150608163951-apple-music-780x439.jpg Wide As expected, Apple announced its forthcoming music streaming service on Monday at its annual WorldWide Developers Conference. The service is scheduled to...
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Taylor Swift on Spotify (Well, not Exactly)
ryan adams.jpg Wide Today, we heard news that Americana hero Ryan Adams plans to record a covers version of the latest Taylor Swift record, 1989. We’ve been asked whether Adams’ album will be on...
View ArticleTransparency in the Music Industry
There are a number of reasons for the inaccessibility of this information, one of which is the frequent sale of individual works and entire catalogs and the infrequent recordation of these sales....
View ArticleHere’s How Taylor Swift’s Songs Could End Up Back on Spotify
The idea of so-called compulsory licensing has been getting attention lately, because songwriters feel they’re being underpaid for their work. But having compulsory licensing makes the music business...
View ArticleThe Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't
And just as there are more avenues for consumers to pay for creative work, there are more ways to be compensated for making that work. Think of that signature flourish of 2000s-era television...
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Spotify Makes a Move Towards Transparency
spotify.jpg Narrow Yesterday, on-demand music streaming service Spotifydid something pretty big by explaining in detail how it calculates and pays out royalties to rightsholders. With so many music...
View ArticleCLOSE LISTENING: MUSIC AND US
Is the idea that musicians should be allowed to participate fully in our country’s economy unrealistic? I hope not; though—barring the introduction of a completely new economy that treats musicians as...
View ArticleMusicians And Songwriters Are Fed Up With Low Royalties -- And They Are...
WASHINGTON— After years of hanging their heads or sitting on the sidelines as disruptive digital forces chipped away at the music industry’s bottom line, working-class musicians and songwriters are...
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It’s a Block (Chain) Party and You’re Invited
shutterstock_282613352.jpg Wide If you’re in the music business or hanging around the music business, you’ve probably heard about blockchain—an emerging technology that has taken on near-mythical...
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Where’s My Mechanicals? Part II: The Litigationing
shutterstock_276487457.jpg Wide A few months ago, we published an article about mechanical royalties not being properly paid out to publishers and songwriters. At that point, there was not yet a sense...
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