WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NEW YORK, NY – SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization authorized to collect royalties for the digital performance of sound recordings, and RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, announced a new joint initiative to identify hundreds of recording artists collectively owed over $1 million in royalties. Read the rest of this entry »
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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When John Boydston got an e-mail from SoundExchange saying he had several thousand dollars in unclaimed royalties, he did what most sensible people would do. He ignored it.
To the rock musician from Atlanta, “money for nothing” meant a song by Dire Straits, not a stranger contacting him out of the blue promising to cut him big checks.
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NARM held its second Salon Series event before a packed room at the Soho House NY on February 22. A panel of experts that represented BMI, CBS Interactive, HFA, RightsFlow, Roadrunner Records, The Songwriters Guild of America, and SoundExchange discussed the topic of streamlining digital licensing. Standardization of digital licensing was a key point during the discussion and NARM will be planning future events to advance this topic forward.
Four days of CMJ-sponsored panel discussions at NYU’s Kimmel Center last month saw musicians and music-industry professionals hashing out some of the most pressing issues facing the music business today. Not surprisingly, the monetization and piracy of digital music was a subject that came up in all panels, though (also not surprisingly) the issue was never fully resolved. Meeting one week before Google’s announcement of a partnership with MySpace, Lala, Rhapsody, and imeem to launch its OneBox music search engine, the panelists proposed a variety of remedies for the five-billion-dollar loss that the music industry has suffered annually, ostensibly due to pirating, since 2000.
New York, NY – September 26, 2008 – RightsFlow launches a bolt-on addition to their current proprietary “FLOW” system, an automated bulk licensing and accounting tool. The new turnkey product provides licensing, accounting and payment solutions ensuring songwriters and music publishers get paid by Online Music Services, Labels & Distributors with regards to interactive streams and limited downloads, including subscription and ad-supported models.
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Santa Monica, CA, Sept. 25, 2008 – The DCIA P2P & Video Conference, to be held within Digital Hollywood Fall, features Patrick Sullivan as a guest speaker on Monday, October 27th as part of the “Private and Public Approaches – P2P Distribution for Video Rights Holders or Rewards for Copyright Enforcers” panel.
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Title: Dewey Beach Music Conference
Location: Dewey Beach, DE
Link out: Click here
Description: Panel Title: “Publishing, Licensing and Performance Rights”
Panel Date: September 26th, 2008
Panel Location: Dewey Beach, DE
Panels/Moderators: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
The panel discussed the current state of music publishing, from licensing to mechanical rights and public performance rights. The panel addressed the future potential of the sector in light of technology and change.
Other Panelists:
Jamie Dominguez, SESAC (Panel Moderator)
George Stein, Esq. Entertainment Lawyer
Marcy Wagman, Mad Dragon
Neeta Ragoowansi, SoundExchange
Robert Case, New Pants Publishing
Blake Athen, Human Factor
Van Wilson, 5 Points Records
Start Date: 2008-09-25
End Date: 2008-09-27
Santa Monica, CA, Sept. 24, 2008 – Lost in the licensing shuffle? After decades of evolution, the modern-day music industry features a myriad of licenses, royalty obligations, specialized societies, and of course, lawsuits. That makes it difficult for entrants and outsiders to understand the tricky terrain, though insiders also sometimes struggle with the complicated maze of royalty requirements.
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