Title: AIMP Panels
Location: New York, NY
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Description: Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)

Summary:

This panel will discuss how digital distributors have stepped into the mechanical licensing role ensuring that publishers and songwriters get paid for online music distributions. Typical distributors have not taken on this responsibility in the physical world, but with the digitalization of music the business practice has changed. We will explore how services such as iTunes don’t pay publishers directly and pass-through mechanical royalties to labels and distributors with no accountability back to publishers and songwriters. Panelists will discuss how their companies have the ability to license, account and pay publishers through the services they offer.

Other Panelists:

Helene Blue, Helene Blue Musique Ltd. (Moderator)
Erik Gilbert,VP of Content, IODA
Maurice Russell VP, Licensing, Collection & Business Affairs, HFA
Stanley Schneider, Esq, Attorney
Date: 2009-09-16

Nashville, TN – September 1, 2009 – News arrived last week that Mog and Rightsflow landed additional rounds of equity. One may wonder if investors are being lured into music again. The answer is both yes and no. Except for Spotify, few listening-based music startups have recently captured the fancy of investors. Lately, music-based companies that have landed venture capital do not have revenue models built upon licensing music from record labels. As a result, they do not have to deal with byzantine and expensive processes, lay out capital to obtain those licenses or shoehorn a business model into the constraints of those licenses. Read the rest of this entry »