PRS deal for Rara
Omnifone's Rara.com service has finalised a pan-European deal with PRS for Music. The service was already live in 20 countries, including the UK, France and Germany.
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Rdio inks pan-European licensing deal with PRS for Music
Rdio is already available in Germany, Spain and Portugal, but the streaming music service looks set for more continential expansion, having signed a pan-European licensing deal with PRS for Music.
View ArticlePRS and MCPS reveal admin fee and commission rates changes
PRS for Music has announced changes that could be controversial for labels and artists, through its PRS and MCPS collecting societies. PRS’ administration fee will rise by around one percentage point...
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Pandora still shuns UK claiming PRS rates aren’t ‘economically viable’
Pandora founder Tim Westergren has been sounding off again about PRS for Music's UK rates. "We've seen no indication from PRS that it is prepared to offer economically viable rates for services like...
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PRS for Music collections rose 3.2% to £630.8m in 2011
PRS for Music has announced its annual financials, revealing that it collected £630.8m (around $1bn) in royalties for its members in 2011, up 3.2% year-on-year.
View ArticlePRS for Music collections rose 3.2% to £630.8m in 2011
PRS for Music has announced its annual financials, revealing that it collected £630.8m (around $1bn) in royalties for its members in 2011, up 3.2% year-on-year
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Music Ally Report: Beyond the Infringe (Issue 291)
The Pirate Bay has made some eccentric announcements in 2012 so far, but more seriously, we consider the shifting sands in the online piracy world, as sites and services look to become even more...
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Ads are key funding source for piracy sites claims PRS / Google study
Google fields a lot of brickbats from the music industry on its anti-piracy policies, but the company has teamed up with PRS for Music on a research study of ‘The Six Business Models for Copyright...
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All change for Adam Webb and Will Page
Two personnel moves yesterday for popular figures in the UK music industry.
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CueSongs gets licensed by PRS for Music
CueSongs has inked a deal with PRS for Music to expand its licensing services. Now it will include PRS' 'Communication to the public' rights.
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EC unveils music licensing shakeup, but artists protest
The European Commission has published its proposals to modernise collecting societies and simplify pan-European music licensing. They call for “improved governance and greater transparency” for the...
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PRS for Music research reveals BritMusic’s overseas earnings
British songwriters earned £187.7m from use of their music outside the UK in 2011, up 10.6% year-on-year, according to new figures released by PRS.
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Industry groups get cracking on UK Copyright Works report recommendations
A group of UK creative industry companies and bodies have teamed up to take forward recommendations from July's Copyright Works report by Richard Hooper.
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British music bodies get opposition in early to copyright changes
The British government's Intellectual Property Office has come under attack from a range of rightsholder bodies over its 'Consultation on Copyright'.
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PRS for Music says electronic music writers losing out on royalties
PRS for Music is struggling to pay royalties to writers for 50% of the electronic music songs played on British radio, due to incomplete metadata or writers having failed to register with the...
View ArticlePRS for Music collections rose 1.7% in 2012
British collecting society PRS for Music has announced its financial results for 2012, revealing that its collections rose 1.7% year-on-year to £641.8m.
View ArticleEvent report: ‘Copyright in Crisis’ ft. PRS for Music and Pirate Party
Want a flippant answer to the question of how to solve copyright problems? Stop having panel debates about copyright problems. Very little ever got solved through people with microphones arguing about...
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Online Licensing Key Account Manager (PEL) 12 Month FTC – PRS for Music
We are a society of songwriters, composers and music publishers. We license organisations to play, perform or make available copyright music on behalf of our members and overseas societies, and...
View ArticlePRS and MCPS reveal admin fee and commission rates changes
PRS for Music has announced changes that could be controversial for labels and artists, through its PRS and MCPS collecting societies. PRS’ administration fee will rise by around one percentage point...
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Musicians’ Union demands fairer streaming-music payouts
UK's Musicians' Union weighing in this weekend with a call for labels to share payments 50/50 with artists.The post Musicians’ Union demands fairer streaming-music payouts appeared first on Music Ally.
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