By Emmanuel Legrand The Re:Create Coalition, which advocates for "a balanced copyright system" and claims to be supporting "a pro-innovation, pro-creator, and pro-consumer copyright agenda," has...
By Emmanuel Legrand Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the music industry significantly through tour cancellations, retail store closures, and other disruptions, recorded music revenues in...
By Emmanuel Legrand The MLC has a riches problem: It has been handed $424 million by music streaming services, and it now needs to find the...
By Emmanuel Legrand Time US adults spent with digital audio grew 8.3% in 2020, compared to 2019, for a total of 1 hour and 29 minutes...
Songwriters, music publishers and the two main US performance rights societies ASCAP and BMI reacted with disappointment to the disclosure that the US Department of Justice...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), which has launched on January 1, 2021 and is tasked with licensing and collecting mechanical rights for the...
By Emmanuel Legrand SiriusXM, the parent company of music streaming service Pandora, is expecting to incur a $1 billion impairment charge in 2020 related to Pandora's...
By Emmanuel Legrand US rights societies ASCAP and BMI have unveiled SONGVIEW, a new data platform that provides music users with "an authoritative view of copyright...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has enlisted four music data companies to its Data Quality Initiative (DQI): Blokur, Exactuals, Music Data Services,...
By Emmanuel Legrand The United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), Vishal Amin, has issued the United States Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property covering the...
