This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. A Washingtonian dog fight is nothing new. Today the radio industry is embroiled in a political argument with the record business. The argument is ...

SoundExchange, a non-profit that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for sound recordings, is now enabling registered soundtrack creators to receive royalty payments through Zelle ...

Instead, their digital performance royalties would be passed through their label. FMC has always argued that direct and simultaneous payments to artists is a good thing. We have lots of upstanding ...

After a string of initial losses on the issue, Pandora convinced a judge that public performance rights of Flo & Eddie of The Turtles weren't violated. By Winston Cho The last remaining case over the ...

The music industry and broadcasters amped up their rhetoric in the contentious battle over a proposed performance royalty, pitching lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as well as anyone else willing ...

The members of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property recognize that there are two sides to the dispute over the imposition of broadcast ...

The nonprofit that collects digital performance royalties for music artists has hired a 26-year veteran of licensing and copyright matters as general counsel, months after a federal court ruled it ...

Performance rights form the backbone of the modern music economy, granting owners of a musical composition—the songwriter and often the publisher—the legal authority to control when, where, and how ...

When a melody drifts through a café, a chorus blares over a stadium‑packed arena, or a hook loops on a binge‑worthy playlist, invisible threads pull an unseen payment back to the song’s architect.