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| 13.01.2026 | Sisi Hollywood Opens 2026 with an Intimate Season Premiere Featuring Legendary Composer Randy Edelman at Mandarin Oriental New York | Share
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Picture Description: Sisi Cao in conversation with legendary composer Randy Edelman, filmed in a private penthouse at the Mandarin Oriental New York overlooking Central Park.
New York, NY — International media ... |
| 09.12.2025 | Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60 | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.
Malo died Monday night, his wife, Bet... |
| 20.10.2025 | SHEIN and Rap Superstar GloRilla Drop Fire-and-Ice-Inspired Collection Built for Self-Expression | Launch Highlights SHEIN Trend Stores MUSERA and SHEIN ICON in Celebration of Fearless Fashion
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SHEIN, the global fashion and lifestyle online retailer, has teamed up with multi-platinum recording ar... |
| 09.07.2025 | Restaurants, bars say they’re getting squeezed by rising music licensing costs | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 20.03.2025 | Cosynd and BMI Unite to Provide Unprecedented Copyright Protection for Music Creators | Cosynd x BMI Spark
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Cosynd partners with BMI’s Spark program, making BMI the first PRO to offer creators affordable copyright tools for easy protection and ownership.
We are proud to celebrate this milestone with BMI as the first PRO ... |
| 19.12.2024 | Automated Royalty Distribution Systems: Ensuring Fair Payment for Artists | Share
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The music and entertainment industry thrives on the creativity of artists, songwriters, and performers. However, ensuring fair compensation for their work has always been a complex challenge. Automated royalty ... |
| 09.12.2024 | Beyond the Lyrics: How to Transform Songwriting Skills into Successful Self-Publishing | Share
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Songwriting is an art form that blends creativity, emotion, and technical skill. For many songwriters, the process of writing a song is an intimate and personal endeavor, whether they are inspired by a moment i... |
| 28.11.2024 | The Digital Music Dilemma: Navigating Free Downloads and New Releases | The world of music is a vast ocean, teeming with treasures and hidden dangers. In this digital age, platforms like Mp3Juice offer a siren's call to music lovers seeking free downloads. Meanwhile, artists like Dante Bowe release powerful ant... |
| 27.11.2024 | Dante Bowe Announces The Release of New Single "Grateful" Featuring Fridayy, Out November 29 | Grammy-Winner and Chart-Topping Vocalist Release an Anthem that Celebrates Resilience and Gratitude
DALLAS, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Grammy Award Winning and multi-platinum-selling songwriter, Dante Bowe, is set to release his la... |
| 19.10.2024 | This Week In Techdirt History: October 13th – 19th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, states were rushing to protect net neutrality followed by the court ruling that shot down the FCC’s attempt to prevent them. Marc Benioff was being extremely hypocritical about Section 230, the guy who trie... |
| 29.09.2024 | Многие хиты исчезли с YouTube и YouTube Music, поскольку сервисы ведут переговоры о новом соглашении с SESAC | Некоторые из самых просматриваемых и прослушиваемых композиций стали недоступны на YouTube и YouTube Music в ряде стран. Эти песни содержат контент общества по защите авторских прав европейских музыкальных авторов и композиторов SESAC (Soci... |
| 21.09.2024 | This Week In Techdirt History: September 15th – 21st | Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, some investors were getting sick of AT&T’s obsession with mergers, leading the company to think about dumping DirecTV. Nintendo was ramping up its war on ROM websites, while Congress was moving forward ... |
| 10.09.2024 | The third annual Annapolis Songwriters' Festival kicks off this Thursday, September 12th, with live music all weekend in venues throughout downtown Annapolis | THE THIRD ANNUAL ANNAPOLIS SONGWRITERS’ FESTIVAL
The 3rd Annapolis Songwriters Festival kicks off Thursday, September 12th at Rams Head Tavern with live music starting at 5 PM. The music continues all weekend long throughout 15 venues in Do... |
| 30.07.2024 | GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SONGWRITER, PRODUCER AND MUSIC EXECUTIVE BABYFACE TO RECEIVE BMI ICON AWARD AT THE 2024 BMI R&B/HIP-HOP AWARDS | SZA TO BE HONORED WITH THE BMI CHAMPION AWARD
Evening Also Celebrates the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Songwriters, Producers and Publishers on Thursday, September 5th in Los Angeles, CA
NEW YORK, July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BMI announced t... |
| 09.07.2024 | Rams Head, BMI, and Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Present the Annapolis Songwriters Festival | RAMS HEAD, BMI, AND VISIT ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PRESENT THE ANNAPOLIS SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL AT VARIOUS VENUES IN ANNAPOLIS, INCLUDING CITY DOCK, FROM SEPTEMBER 12 TO 15, 2024
The 3rd Annapolis Songwriters Festival is scheduled ... |
| 30.04.2024 | Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services | Many people see optional anonymity as a key feature of the Internet but increasingly there are calls for stricter identity checks.
While a full-blown ‘Internet passport’ is not yet required anywhere just yet, ‘know your customer’ requiremen... |
| 03.04.2024 | The Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association 28TH Annual Key West Songwriters Festival Presented by BMI Announces Ticketed Shows for May 1-5 | Key West Songwriters Festival
KEY WEST, Fla., April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association Key West Songwriters Festival presented by BMI announced details behind 16 ticketed shows during the five-day... |
| 22.03.2024 | Tennessee Just Passed a New Law to Protect Musicians From a Growing AI Threat — And Even Taylor Swift Has Been a Victim Tennessee is the first U.S. state to pass legislation protecting music industry ... | - |
| 12.07.2021 | BMI Celebrates Its Top Composers At The 37th Annual BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards | |
| 11.09.2015 | BMI Records Record Revenue… While Whining To DOJ That It Can't Function Under Antitrust Agreement | As we’ve been discussing, the two big music collection societies in the US, ASCAP and BMI, are desperately fighting to get the DOJ to alter (or end entirely) the “consent agreement” that they operate under. The consent agreement, in various... |
| 04.10.2013 | Startup Rundown: You Can Now Get A Degree In “Connective Media” And Spin Is Yet Another Group Video App | Cornell Tech’s Connective Media class of 2016 (photo: flickr user whiteafrican)
Tech training Mayor Bloomberg joined Cornell NYC Tech earlier this week to announce a new degree program: a two-year master’s in “connective media.” Cool kids T... |
| 16.07.2013 | Bar Hit With $45,000 Fine for “Pirated” Karaoke Songs | Royalty collection agencies are known for going to extremes as they go about claiming money on behalf of artists and music composers.
In the United States this has resulted in hundreds of lawsuits over the years, mostly targeted at pubs, re... |
| 17.08.2011 | Restaurant Owner Ordered To Pay BMI $30,450 For 'Illegally Playing' Four Unlicensed Songs | Most reasonable people would agree that the RIAA’s incredibly high statutory fees for infringement are ridiculous. Of course, this is why reasonable people aren’t allowed anywhere near the royalty collecting process. BMI, on the other hand,... |
| 21.07.2011 | Turntable.fm Nabs Rights to Another 6.5 Million Songs From BMI | BMI.com in 1996. BMI took advantage of the Turntable announcement by slipping in the fact that "the first music company to launch a website in September 1994.." (archive.org)
Turntable.fm is jammin’. Yesterday ASCAP (American Soci... |
| 21.07.2011 | More music: Turntable.fm lands big licensing agreement with BMI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Music licensing company BMI on Thursday announced... |
| 10.05.2011 | BMI Says A Single Person Listening To His Own Music Via The Cloud Is A Public Performance | There’s no time like late on a Friday to send out disturbing missives. Companies who need to let staff go often find it easier to let the week "play out" before handing out the pink slips. Congressmen who need to shove through som... |
| 10.01.2011 | There’s no such thing as a free sample | (Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
Just because something is commonplace doesn’t always mean it’s legal. That’s especially true in the murky rights worl... |
| 25.07.2010 | The Dangers Of Letting Congress Solve The Performance Royalties Dispute | Attorney David Oxenford asked an intriguing question over at the Broadcast Law Blog last week. One that goes beyond the war over royalties being waged between the recording and broadcast industries. Is it better for business to seek legisla... |
| 22.10.2008 | AudioMicro lands funds for stock music, sounds | AudioMicro, an online library of stock music and sound effects that can be downloaded for a small fee, announced today that it brought in an undisclosed amount in a first round of funding led by DFJ Frontier.
The Los Angeles-based website b... |
| 14.11.2006 | Phonezoo offers free, extensive ringtone download service | Updated
Phonezoo is a new Silicon Valley start-up that makes downloading ringtones a fun activity, even for us at VentureBeat who have so far snubbed the trend.
Phonezoo, of Sunnyvale, has been in testing mode until now, but today launched ... |
| 03.09.2004 | Musicians Making Lots Of Money, Money, Money… | Jeremiah writes “Amidst the public ballyhoo about how rampant P2P piracy is costing the music business its very life (gasp! NO!), BMI announced it collected a record level of revenue and royalty payout to its artist members. From their pres... |