By Emmanuel Legrand The Board of Directors of Spanish rights society SGAE has once again postponed the Extraordinary General Assembly during which the new statutes of...
By Emmanuel Legrand US music rights society Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has registered record collections in the fiscal year ending June 30, with revenues up $78...
By Emmanuel Legrand The USDepartment of Justice has started the process of reviewing the 850+ submissions that were made during the consultation about the future of...
By Emmanuel Legrand Australia's two rights societies Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (APRA AMCOS) and the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia...
By Emmanuel Legrand The US Copyright Office (USCO) has designated on July 5 the two entities that will operate the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and the...
by Emmanuel Legrand SGAE's crisis reached a tipping point after the struggling Spanish rights society's general assembly failed to endorse on June 24 the proposed changes...
Robert Ashcroft After ten years as CEO of PRS for Music, Robert Ashcroft has left British authors' society to be replaced by Andrea Martin. During his...
By Emmanuel Legrand The US music community is preparing for a long battle ahead following the decision by the Antitrust Division at the US Department of...
By Emmanuel Legrand SGAE has been given a year to clean up its act by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. CISAC has...
By Emmanuel Legrand Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo addressingthe 2019 CISAC General Assembly in Tokyo. Photo (C): JASRAC Fair remuneration from digital services, better protection for...