In researching an upcoming article on music booking agencies, I keep running into a trend that’s got me thinking about how musicians really get paid for live performance in a web-enabled music industry. When Coldplay offered concert tickets via an online auction back in 2005, I remember hearing moans from fans and from music activists who griped that [...]
Mark Cuban wonders aloud whether YouTube’s announcement that popular videos will start earning royalties will spawn a videomakers’ guild or performing rights society along the lines of ASCAP or BMI. It’s an interesting concept, since statutory royalties for songwriters have been around for so long that nobody challenges their merit anymore. As it becomes easier [...]
Our discussion about your entries into American Idol’s songwriting contest rolls on. For newcomers, we’ve been splitting comments into new threads every 100 comments or so to keep our server from melting. Beyond that, there’s a lot of fun, positive discussion going on between some industry veterans and some newbie songwriters about everything from whether [...]
The discussion among American Idol Songwriter entrants is still going strong. We have opened up a new thread just about every day to accommodate the comments without bogging down the server or creating huge page downloads. If you’re new to our site, welcome!
Later this week, I hope to pull together a list of links to [...]
UPDATE – APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards.
Our readers kick butt. Seriously, you guys, you rock. The discussion has been great and my inbox has been full of really insightful stuff.
The American Idol Songwriter contest seems like the kind of poke our working musicians’ hornet’s [...]
Britain’s Association for Independent Music is launching a less expensive mechanical license arrangement for “bedroom” podcasters that opens up access to a small number of current tracks.
The biggest problem for podcasters that want to play music is the licensing double-whammy. Remember that you not only have to license the songs from the appropriate professional rights [...]
BMI Podcasting And Licensing Podcasters: BMI has just joined ASCAP to make it a little clearer for podcasters to include BMI songs in their downloads… More on this topic to come…
I read an article in Music Connection Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 14 07/05/04 to 07/18/04 written by Lynn Bronstein. Pick up a copy at your local library to read the full article or you can order a copy here Bronstein spoke with a number of industry showcase veterans. The article pertains [...]
The ASCAP Foundation and Heineken USA have teamed up to launch a new music grant program for emerging songwriters in key music cities around the country.
The Heineken USA/ASCAP Foundation Grant Program will benefit emerging Latin music songwriters in the Los Angeles and Miami music communities, and emerging Pop/Rock music songwriters in the New York, [...]
