Music Rights Management Newsletter No. 13
TuneRegistry - Music Rights Administration Platform
A Publishing Administration Platform for Independent Rightsholders.
Happy Holidays!
2022 was an exciting and productive year for the TuneRegistry platform, with even more developments on the horizon for next year. Our number of active users is steadily climbing, and it is our top priority to continue improving the user experience on TuneRegistry. As we gear up for 2023, we wanted to call attention to some of our proudest recent accomplishments and sincerely thank you, our users, for your support as we continue to grow the platform.
In June, we rolled out the Transparent Registrations feature, providing more granular detail and insights into each phase of our registration process for our rightsholder clients. Now, instead of only seeing the statuses of Pending, In Progress, and Complete, our clients can also see if their registration is Awaiting ISWC Assignment, has a Conflict, or is a Possible Match to a pre-existing registered work.?Read more here.
To better serve our publisher clients, we now register directly on their behalf with the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) through their portal, providing us with?visibility into the status of registrations. In addition, the timeframe for our initial PRO registrations is down from 5-7 days to 3-4 days, and our SoundExchange registration process has seen meaningful uptake among our users, enabling our rightsholder clients (indie artists, publishers, etc.) to leverage DDEX standards for accurate and timely Master Recording registrations. We are also proud of the efforts we have made to refine our platform and will continue to make it a priority to enhance our product and continue to provide the outstanding customer support that our clients have grown used to. We aim to continue providing the most pleasant publishing administration experience via our platform.
Please feel free to contact us at?[email protected]?with any feedback, and we will take it into account when making future improvements. You can also utilize the “How would you recommend TuneRegistry?” survey when you see it throughout the platform to submit feedback.
Once again, we want to thank you for being a part of the TuneRegistry community. Happy Holidays!
-The TuneRegistry Team
Notable News
Notable news this week:
Help Articles
How to Setup Your Account for SoundExchange Registrations
Learn about the Harry Fox Agency and how to affiliate?
Learned about this unique identifier that is used within the Music Publishing industry
In the News?
A formal vote has not yet been taken. But the party seems to be coalescing around Jeffries, who was endorsed as a successor by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). If chosen, Jeffries would become the first Black leader of a Congressional caucus, as well as the presumptive Speaker if the Democrats were to win back the House majority. And although it’s hard to say if serious copyright legislation will come in front of Congress, having a supporter of creators and copyright in such an important role could only help rightsholders.
Many in the music business are likely celebrating Jeffries’ election today. The Congressman, who has served as the U.S. representative for New York’s 8th Congressional District since 2013, has been a longtime champion of music creators. Among other efforts, he co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020, a.k.a. the CASE Act, which streamlined copyright disputes by creating a small claims tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office to adjudicate small claims infringement cases.
The ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) is delighted to announce that Apple label partners and other music sector organizations have recently received word that Apple is encouraging the submission of International Standard Name Identifiers (ISNIs) as part of its standard content delivery workflows.
This is, of course, fantastic news for creators and music industry organizations alike – helping to ensure that artists, bands, musicians, contributors, record labels and their music will be unambiguously attributed to their public name(s) wherever that work is described – not to mention that their content will now be easier for listeners to find on Apple Music than ever before.
The news follows a lawsuit filed by Sony Music Entertainment in August, claiming Triller had “historically failed to make payments in a timely manner” but that this issue got even worse in March 2022 when Triller “failed to make any monthly payments required under the Agreement, totaling millions of dollars.”
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A source at one of the other major music companies says similar breach of contract and failure to make payments, including “millions and millions in past due royalties,” was behind Triller’s decision to pull these catalogs. The Triller spokesperson, however, called that claim “false and grossly inaccurate.”
Two months back, Facebook parent Meta moved to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by royalty-free song library Epidemic Sound. Now, the presiding judge has officially denied the motion.
This latest development in the high-stakes legal showdown, which initiated in July of this year, just recently came to light in a court order. In the original complaint, Epidemic Sound claimed that Meta had infringed upon over 1,800 recordings and compositions during the preceding five years.
According once again to the initial action, the alleged infringement had been facilitated in part by Meta’s “offering Epidemic’s works through its ‘music library’ for any of its users
They reckoned it was probably Big Sean that had been exposed to their earlier track, because he is also from Detroit. And while ‘Krazy’ never had a full release, Payne and James insisted that it was widely played in the clubs and bars of West Detroit where Big Sean was known to hang out at the time. It also topped the Detroit chart on the Reverbnation platform.
But according to the straightforward lawsuit that CNN is grappling with, the television network lifted the music in question (which is “exclusively offered only on the FPM website”) and used it without a license. The alleged infringement specifically extends to 73 works across 169 videos on CNN Philippines, 40 works across 91 videos on CNN Indonesia (which isn’t a party to the suit, however), and three works across 19 videos on CNN Chile.
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"Congressional action on the American Music Fairness Act demonstrates that while justice can be delayed, it ultimately cannot be denied," said Michael Huppe, President and CEO of SoundExchange. "For decades, broadcast corporations have made hundreds of billions of dollars while denying creators royalties for music played on AM/FM radio stations. That's fundamentally wrong. Everyone knows that, including the broadcasters."
The American Music Fairness Act represents a common-sense approach to rectifying a decades-long injustice. It ensures that creators are finally respected for their work and requires billion-dollar corporations such as iHeartMedia, Audacy, Cumulus Media, and others to pay their fair share for music. It also protects small and college radio stations by capping what they would have to pay to as little as $10 to $500 a year. The legislation also levels the music playing field across terrestrial and digital platforms – creators are currently paid when their music is played on streaming services such as SiriusXM but not for AM/FM play.
This resource lists the top 1,000 sound recording uses previously reported to The MLC that have not yet been matched to a musical work registration in our database. Note that in many instances, the reason we have not been able to match these uses is because the musical work in question has not yet been registered in our database.
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