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How Artists Get Paid for Internet Radio: An interview with Mike Huppe, President of SoundExchange (Part 1 of 2)

Chris Castle | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Performance Royalties, Recording Artists, Soundexchange, Ascap, Song Royalties, Radio Royalties, Entertainment News
Chris Castle

When you hear a recording of a song, there are actually two distinct copyrights involved, the song (also called a "musical work") and the recording of the song.

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How Restaurants Can Go Broke By Playing Music

Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Bmi, Video, BMI Music, Ascap, Restaurant Music, Music Licensing Fees, Restaurant Music Licensing, Bmi and Ascap, Background Music, Music Industry, Food News

There's a lot of overlap between restaurant lovers and music lovers, so it's not hard to imagine that, if you open a restaurant, you have a favorite b...

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Among School Children

Tamsin Smith | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: School Children, Ascap, America SCORES, William Butler Yeats, The Great Unknown, Storytelling, Songwriting, William Blake, Poetry, Culture News
Tamsin Smith

All the songs on this name-your-price collection represent a story-telling collaboration between The Great Unknown and America SCORES schoolchildren from five cities across the country.

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Sundance Festival: The Marriage of Music and Film

Tamara Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sundance Film Festival, Film, Music, Bmi, Ascap, On the Ice, Izler, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, My Idiot Brother, The Wire, Doreen Ringer Ross, Lsd, Andrew Maclean, Entertainment News
Tamara Conniff

I have always been a massive fan of film music. It is truly one of the greatest arts and the ultimate marriage of image and sound. So Sundance was like a wonderland for me.

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Music Unites Expands Efforts in 2011 With Nationwide Instrument Drive

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empowering Women, Axe, Aimee Mann, Music Education, Peter Yorn, Hard Rock Cafe, Non-Profits, J Mascis, The Roots, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Instruments, The Who, Bronx Zoo, Epic Records, Ascap, Carnegie, Choir, Chicago, Music Unites, Benito Juarez Community Academy, Michael Dorf, Reni Lane, Bowery Presents, Mtv, Living Colour, O.a.R., Education News
Michelle Edgar

In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an id...

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ASCAP and Music Unites' Night School Kick Off

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ascap, Self-Synchronization, Norwood, Copyright, Music Unites, Music, Savoir Adore, Emerging Artists, Education News
Michelle Edgar

The joint endeavor, created to provide support and accessibility to emerging musicians, kicked off Tuesday night at the Norwood Club with 'Music Publishing 101'.

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ASCAP AND MUSIC UNITES PARTNER TO PRESENT ASCAP'S NIGHT SCHOOL

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pledgemusic, Cantora Records, Beyonce, Downtown Music Publishing, Neil Young, Producers, Savoir Adore, Composers, Norwood Club, Shapiro Bernstein, Publishing, Ascap, Gigmaven, The Killers, U2, Music Unites, Emi, Night School, Songtrust, Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, Entertainment News
Michelle Edgar

Music Unites is joining with ASCAP tomorrow night to present "ASCAP's Night School: Publishing 101" the first in a series of four workshop panels deve...

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ASCAP's attack on Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ascap, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Politics News
Lawrence Lessig

UPDATE: I've received a letter from Paul Williams declining my offer to debate. "My priorities," Williams wrote, "must be focused on songwriting and c...

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30,000 Songwriters in the Making

Paul Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Piracy, Copyright Law, Ascap, Piracy, Copyright, Entertainment News
Paul Williams

If new technologies are just enablers for taking music without any means for compensation, the chance for future songwriters to make a decent living is in serious jeopardy.

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Bruce Springsteen Sues Connolly's Pub... Or Does He?

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, Ascap, Connolly's Pub, Copyright, Springsteen Lawsuit, The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, New York News

NEW YORK — Bruce Springsteen wants his name off a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from a Manhattan bar where a band played his songs. A statem...

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Stop the Music...and the Torture

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ascap, Bagram Air Base, Guantanamo Detainees, Torture, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Those who focus solely on the closing of Gitmo merely invite the US government to move any detainees still in need of further 'care' to Bagram, which is in a similarly lawless situation, if not more so.

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Newspapers Considering Music Industry-Like Royalty System

WSJ | Ashby Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Ascap, Newspapers Royalties, Newspapers Music Industry, Newspapers ASCAP, Media News

To stay clear of the trustbusters' sights, newspapers are looking to the music industry for guidance....The news industry's versions of radio stations...

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Pirates Stealing Music in China...US...Pretty Much Everywhere.

Mira Veda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music, Music Industry, Pop Music, Ascap, Baiducom, Google, Piracy, Google Music, China, Web-Piracy, Naras, Erika Nuri, Entertainment News
Mira Veda

Until there is some regulation, the world may never see the potential of so many songwriters, singers or artists that just can't afford to make music.

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