On the occasion of Transport Month, South Africa's rights organisation SAMRO (Southern African Music Rights Organisation) has urged the Department of Transport to enforce compliance of...
Australasian music rights management society APRA AMCOS posted record income for the 2021-22 financial year, with gross revenue of A$616.5 million (€395m), a 21.6% increase on...
The United States District Court for the Central District of California has ruled that digital media company Slacker, and its parent company LiveOne, had failed to...
French rights society SACEM has introduced Musicstart, a new blockchain-based creative protection service, available via its subsidiary URights. Musicstart allows all authors or composers, including beginners,...
French rights society SACEM has launched its first NFT campaign, linked to its annual awards ceremony "Les Grands Prix Sacem.” By doing so, SACEM claims to...
US music rights society Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) has unveiled plans to become a for-profit company in a move that will "open up new and important opportunities...
British visual artists rights organisation Design & Artist Copyright Society (DACS) has urged the new Secretary of State for DCMS, Michelle Donelan, to work "closely with...
PRS for Music has distributed in October a record £211 million in royalties, making it the highest payment to members in 108-year history of the British...
Owen Atkinson, the long serving Chief Executive of Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS), has announced his retirement after 25 years with the British rights society....
The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) has appointed Elyssa Macri as Director of Communications and Industry Relations of the SoundExchange-owned Toronto-based mechanical rights management organisation....