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Bandsintown has announced a new WATCH LIVE feature to help artists connect with fans to promote online concerts during the COVID-19 shutdown.
With WATCH LIVE, all 530,000 registered artists on Bandsintown will be able to promote their live-streamed shows on Twitch, StageIt, IGTV, Facebook Live, YouTube or their favorite streaming platform for free. Continue reading “Bandsintown Launches Watch Live Notifications & Bandsintown Live Music Channel On Twitch”
Social networks are in for a rude copyright awakening. A new European Union law called Article 17 essentially eradicates safe harbor and requires that they’ve made their “best effort” to get licenses from rights holders for all content on their platform. If a user uploads a video with a popular song in the background, tech platforms can’t just take it down if requested. They’ll be liable if they didn’t already try to get permission.
That’s good news for musicians and film producers who are more likely to get paid. But it could hurt influencers and creators whose clips and remixes might be blocked or have their revenue diverted. It will certainly be a huge headache for content-sharing sites.
That’s where Pex comes in. Continue reading “Pex buys Dubset to build YouTube ContentID for TikTok & more”
“When I began to write this article, I thought it would be a quick one,” writes Jeff Price, the founder of royalty-collecting firm Audiam, in the introduction to ‘The Definitive Guide to Spotify Royalties‘.
Spoiler: it was not a quick one.
The report clocks in at 50 pages, and Price thinks that’s a comment in itself on the state of the current streaming ecosystem. “No artist, label, songwriter, distributor or musician should be required to have a depth of knowledge of this complexity to understand a very simple question: ‘How much do I earn when my music streams on Spotify?’” he writes.
“There should be a simple, easy to understand answer. But there’s not. And to be blunt, it’s not really Spotify’s fault, nor is it the music industry’s fault, or the fault of U.S. Copyright laws. But when you put all three of these things together, you get a weird franken-monster royalty schema that has resulted from a new music business model built on consumers paying to have access to music, rather than paying to own it.” We’ll let you dig in to the full report at your leisure: it covers a range of streaming services (not just Spotify) but is focused on the US system specifically. Continue below read the first section of the article. Continue reading “The Definite Guide To Spotify Royalties”
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease at the end of 2019, more than 80,000 people have contracted the disease, resulting in more than 2,700 deaths according to the World Health Organization. As the disease continues to spread, live event organizers have been canceling or postponing large gatherings from technology conferences to major concerts.
With the disease reaching more than 40 countries, Billboard has compiled an ongoing list of major concerts and events that have been postponed or canceled due to the outbreak. Continue reading “Here Are All the Major Music Events Canceled Due to Coronavirus (Updating)”
Continue reading “Record Store Day 2020 Postponed Until June Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic”
Today, Amazon Music is launching an analytics platform for musicians called Amazon Music for Artists, as reported by Variety. Other music streaming services, such as Spotifyand Apple Music, have had similar tools for a while in order to give artists insights and stats about fans and their listening habits. But there’s one big addition here: voice data, which is increasingly important in our day-to-day lives and a driving factor for music discovery. Continue reading “Amazon Launches Amazon Music For Artists”