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On June 30, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 (WSA 2009), which gave SoundExchange the authority to negotiate industry-wide webcaster rates and terms different than those established by the Copyright Royalty Judges. read more |
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Each quarter, as new copies of NewsExchange fly out our doors, so do royalties collected by SoundExchange from digital streaming services. In this, our 33rd quarterly distribution, $18 million is on its way to artists, performers, and copyright holders. For details about the services and time periods reflected in this quarter’s payments, please refer to your statement. read more
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SoundExchange is constantly reaching out to artists, performers, copyright owners, labels, and others, to collect the information we need to get royalty checks to all those who deserve them. It’s not easy to find the thousands of creative people we want to help. So if you know or represent a performer, sound recording copyright owner, or producer who hasn’t yet registered with SoundExchange, let them know we may have money for them. read more |
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Behind every song we hear is a great story: the time, talent and vision which turn a tune and a few lines of lyric into a finished track we can all enjoy. Too often, the people who make that journey happen are overlooked later: performers, musicians and copyright holders see little of the compensation owed them when all that hard work results in play and profit. read more |
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SoundExchange is always on the road
and out in the field spreading the word about what we do. Click through for a sampling of the events we’ve participated in this quarter. read more |
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There is an old adage from the newspaper age which warns against “engaging in a war of words with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” In the new media era, the same might be said of broadcasters who, with unlimited access to airtime, seek to spread misinformation about The Performance Rights Act. Undaunted, the musicFIRST coalition releases a ‘Radio Distortion of the Day’ to set the record straight. read more |
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| SoundExchange is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio (such as SIRIUS XM), internet radio, cable TV music channels, and similar platforms for streaming sound recordings.
The U.S. Copyright Office has entrusted SoundExchange as the sole entity in the United States to collect and distribute these digital performance royalties on behalf of featured and non-featured recording artists, master rights owners (usually record labels), and independent artists who record and own their masters. |
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