Royalties

Electronic musician Four Tet, (Kieran Hebden), has resolved a legal dispute with Domino Records over a deal he signed with the label in 2001.Hebden alleged that Domino, the independent label…

The State of Israel today filed a lawsuit in the Lod District Court for $100 million against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) claiming that the…

Royal has been making a lot of noise in the music business since it launched last summer.Co-founded by musician and producer 3LAU (Justin Blau) the company lets artists sell fractional music…

The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK’s Music Managers Forum. Today, at The Great Escape music conference in Brighton, UK, the MMF is launching its…

Last month, MBW told you about an epic negotiation going on in the United States over certain types of mechanical royalty rates paid to songwriters for sales of physical music, as well as …

In April 2021, SoundCloud launched its industry-first ‘Fan-Powered Royalties’ platform – its own branding of the user-centric streaming payment model.This method of monetization sees…

In this MBW op/ed, Tom Allen (pictured), Co-Founder and CEO of Curve Royalties Systems, discusses his thoughts on Web3 and its potential for processing royalties and managing rights.Whenever…

In January, Blockchain-based music investment platform Royal let fans invest in hip-hop legend Nas’s music on the platform by buying shares in the royalties earned from streaming for two of…

Even before the artist Robert Rauschenberg famously objected to seeing a 1958 painting he originally sold for $900 flip for $85,000 in 1973, artists have been frustrated by not receiving…

MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team. They are our ‘quick take’ reactions – through a music biz lens – to major entertainment news stories. Spotify officially…