By Emmanuel Legrand Collective management organisations are like buses: You wait a long time for them to come and suddenly, two arrive at once. This is...
By Emmanuel Legrand Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has appointed Shira Perlmutter (pictured, above) as the 14th Register of Copyrights and director of the US Copyright...
By Emmanuel Legrand Jake Wisely (pictured, above), partner and Chief Publishing Executive at independent music company Concord, will join the Board of Directors of Concord on...
The CPIP conference panel on the Music Modernisation Act (clockwork from top left): Spotify's Lisa Selden, moderator Mark Schultz, SONA's Adam Gorgoni, the Copyright Office's Regan...
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 Faced an an increasing amount of pirated video streaming content, operators of video streaming services have asked digital security experts Nagra Kudelski to...
By Emmanuel Legrand Streaming revenue is expected to top $15bn by 2024 and nearly $18bn by 2026 in the USA, according to the Streaming Forward 2020...
By Emmanuel Legrand Two years ago, the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) determined after a lengthy process that mechanical royalties paid by digital streaming services to...
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 The report card from the US recorded music industry during the first half of 2020 remained positive despite the Covid-19 pandemic: audio streams...
