Need an easy way to make $23 million? Have you ever considered just claiming music others uploaded to YouTube as your own and collecting the royalties? That's basically all two Phoenix men did to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Courtesy of The MLC It’s widely understood that artists get paid when their songs are streamed or downloaded across digital ...

Last month, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) reached a significant milestone by distributing over $2 billion in total royalties to members, including thousands of songwriters and music ...

Kenya Copyright Board chairman Joshua Kutuny (right) receives progress report from PAVRISK chairman Edwardo Waigwa. [File, Standard] A court has temporarily stopped ...

Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell, the chapter governor of the Memphis chapter of the Recording Academy, testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on February 2 at a hearing titled “Respecting Artists ...

The decision now strips MCSK of its authority to collect royalties or issue licenses to users of music until the dispute is resolved through the appropriate channels. In its petition, MCSK had also ...

As streaming has become increasingly important in today’s music market, it is imperative to understand how streams turn into publishing royalties - and of course, how to get those royalties into your ...

In 2018, Ashlye Keaton and Gene Meneray of The Ella Project wrote a guest column for OffBeat. Together they opined, “We are in the middle of a fundamental shift in how music and culture is created, ...

Mechanical royalties (publishing) Any time a song is mechanically or digitally reproduced (CD, vinyl, download, stream), a mechanical royalty is owed to the publisher. As I mentioned above, mechanical ...