Click here to watch a YouTube video of Scott Sellwood introducing RightsFlow at the Caribbean Cultural Conference.

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TORRANCE, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire/ — Scion’s Music(Less) Music Conference will be held on June 17-18 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to bring together aspiring artists and industry luminaries for a two-day immersion of music fueled conversation. Top players in disparate musical genres will drive debates, panels and workshops as influential members of the music community provide up-and-coming artists with valuable industry insights and resources.

“Scion’s goal is to continually support influential and emerging artists with the opportunities and resources that otherwise might be unavailable,” says Jeri Yoshizu, Scion sales promotions manager. “Much like our audiovisual initiatives, we hope this conference will serve as a stepping stone for musicians to gain crucial industry experience and exposure while spotlighting industry insiders who don’t often get mentioned alongside new talent.”

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Location: Brooklyn, NY
When: Friday, June 18th, 2010
Time: 3:00-4:10
Where: Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

The Caribbean Cultural Conference is an annual event designed to bring together entertainment industry stakeholders to explore, examine the obstacles confronting the advancement of the Caribbean entertainment industry. Through dialogue among industry players, the CCC seeks to bring to the fore, strategies that will positively affect issues related to production, management, intellectual property, distribution and marketing of the Caribbean entertainment product.
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Limelight, the simplest way to clear cover songs, put together this mix in the spirit of the World Cup.  Not all countries are represented, but we tried our hardest to bring some of the most off-beat, interesting covers we could find.  The Limelight team comes from all corners of the world and we love to show pride in our diversity and passion for music!

Click here to check out the iMix on Itunes!

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There is a wealth of public domain Christmas music available, so if you want to avoid the hassle of tracking and paying royalties, you shouldn’t have any problems. I start by looking at the Public Domain website’s list of Christmas songs. Many Christmas hymns and spirituals are public domain, along with old traditional carols. A lot of times these melodies were written years before the lyrics were added and the tune became associated with Christmas (ie. Greensleeves).

Hymns and spirituals are great for instrumental albums, but won’t always work for vocalists. After all, many of the vocal standards recorded by Harry Connick, Jr. or Nat King Cole are secular pieces written by tin pan alley era composers or later. If you’re interested in recording songs that are not in the public domain, you will have to pay royalties. The easiest way to do this is by using Limelight, an online service that collects royalties and administers them to the copyright holders for you. For further reading, see my article on releasing cover songs. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal, CANADA – June 3, 2010, 2010 – NuMuBu, an innovative social network dedicated to the B2B needs of the new music industry, has selected Limelight to provide mechanical licensing support to its members.

Clifford Schwartz, NuMuBu co-founder and president, says, “The NuMuBu mission is to provide business tools to the music industry community. Our partnership with RightsFlow and their Limelight service presents NuMuBu members with yet another feature and more opportunity. Every move we make is aligned with the needs of the new music industry and RightsFlow is moving in the same direction.” Read the rest of this entry »

Ultra International Music Publishing has cut a deal to provide its catalog of hip-hop, R&B, reggae, latin and dance music to Muzak’s platform of customized playlists.  Muzak creates customized music playlists for 350,000 clients that are experienced by 100 million people every day, according to the company, which uses Rightsflow to license and track royalty payments.  Ultra’s song catalog includes “Blame It” performed by Jamie Fox feat T Pain and “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” performed by Pitbull.

By Ed Christman

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