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Online Piracy Spikes Amid Coronavirus Lockdown: Study
Billboard reports: "Lockdown and stay-at-home orders due to the novel coronavirus have been a big boost for online pirates, with a new study showing...
Splice Sees Record Activity During Quarantine, Nearly 50% Surge to 1.1...
Variety reports: "Splice, the popular online music production marketplace that offers royalty-free samples and presets, has seen record-breaking activity since the start of the...
British Songwriters, Composers See Royalties Climb to Record $990 Million
Variety reports: "PRS for Music, the organization that represents the rights of British songwriters, composers and music publishers, collected a record £811 million ($990...
Jaxsta Aims to Bring Back Liner Notes, and Create an IMDB...
Variety reports: "An IMDB for music, crossed with LinkedIn: That’s basically the elevator pitch for Jaxsta, a Sydney, Australia-based tech company that aims to...
Royalty Exchange Transactions Pass $75M, Helping 875 Creators
Hypebot reports: "The Royalty Exchange, a digital marketplace for buying, and selling music catalog, announced that it passed the $75 million in transactions in...
Twitch streamers are getting blindsided by years-old copyright notices
The Verge reports: "Over the last few days, a furor has been brewing on Twitch: out of the blue, streamers started seeing copyright takedown...
The Internet Archive has ended its ‘emergency library’ early
The Verge reports: "After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than...
In the Age of Coronavirus, How Do We Value Film Libraries?
Variety reports: "How to value a film library is a major question in the COVID-19 era as cinemas and streamers turn to older titles...
SoundExchange, Recording Academy & More Launch ‘Fair Trade’ Campaign to Pay...
Billboard reports: "Anytime there is a royalty for the use of a sound recording in the U.S., the music creator is entitled to receive...
Google Will Pay News Publishers for Content Starting Later This Year
Variety reports: "Google is prepping a “new news experience” to launch later in 2020 — for which the internet giant will finally directly compensate...
