BMI Annual Royalty Distributions Top $1 Billion For First Time

BMI has distributed more than $1 billion to its songwriter, composers and publishers for the first time. Fiscal year 2017 marks the third consecutive year of record royalty growth for. Continue reading

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Spotify Could Have Dodged Songwriter Lawsuits If They’d Just Asked The Record Labels…

Spotify and other streaming services have been making a fair number of headlines recently owing to lawsuits surrounding a failure to pay proper royalties. In this article we break down. Continue reading

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Kalbells Talks Beating Cancer, Saying Yes To Yourself, Sowing Songs

In this segment of Soundfly's new interview series, they speak with Kalmia Traver, also known by the the name of her solo project Kalbells about her sources of inspiration and. Continue reading

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Getting Useful Feedback On Your Music

While criticism is important to growing as a music producer and artist, some feedback is more helpful than other, but making sure your submission meets certain criteria can go a. Continue reading

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RIAA Rebuts Songwriter Moral Rights Critics: ‘We love metadato too!’

We share at the full text of an open letter from the the RIAA to songwriter groups in response to their criticism after the RIAA's filed a letter with the. Continue reading

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Neighboring Rights: An Updated Look

Here we dive back in to look further at 'neighboring rights', a form of rights holding which entitles allows monies to be distributed to artists and sound recording holders when. Continue reading

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Taylor Swift Turned Right Said Fred’s Body-Positive Hit Into A Revenge Fantasy: Here’s How

In this article Ian Temple deconstructs and analyzes the musical similarities between T-Swift's latest single "Look What You Made Me Do" and Right Said Fred's hit 1992 classic "I'm Too. Continue reading

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Sounds Great, But Sounds Familiar: Where To Draw The Line With Digital Sampling Of Sound Recordings?

Here Stephen Carlisle breaks down the legal complexities behind digital sampling, looking at what it is, its history, how the Ninth Circuit Court changed everything, and where digital sampling stands. Continue reading

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Obsession: 4 DJs, Producers, Share What Keeps Them Up At Night

Obsession is a level of passion that can change how a person creates, performs, and releases music. In this piece four world-touring DJs and producers out of Piknic Électronik share with. Continue reading

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BMG Launches Royalty Tracking App

BMG has partnered with a team of their songwriter clients to launch a new app to provide artists and rightsholders with up-to-date worldwide information on the value and source of. Continue reading

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