By Emmanuel Legrand Despite a challenging environment due to the coronavirus pandemic, US rights society BMI has closed its fiscal year ending June 30 with historic...
By Emmanuel Legrand The virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of PPL has approved the financial results of the British neighbouring rights society for 2019. During the...
By Emmanuel Legrand Canada's rights society SOCAN has informed its members that it anticipates an 11% drop in collections in 2020 compared to 2019's revenues, due...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) has launched its new members's portal IPRS 2.0, designed by Dataclef, an affiliate of Canada's rights society...
PRS for Music will change its governance rules following the approval by the rights society's AGM on August 18 of a series of proposals that will...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has launched the Data Quality Initiative (DQI), which will provide a streamlined way for music publishers, administrators...
By Emmanuel Legrand US labels' trade body the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has designated neighbouring rights society SoundExchange as the authoritative source of International...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective, the new entity in charge of licensing and administering mechanical rights in the US, has launched two new initiatives...
By Emmanuel Legrand European neighbouring rights societies were pondering their response to SoundExchange's latest campaign asking for "national treatment" for US performers and labels in the...
By Emmanuel Legrand VUT, the German Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs, has become the fourth shareholder of GVL, the Berlin-based neighbouring rights society for Germany, alongside...
