SoundExchange collects US royalties when recordings play on non-interactive digital services such as SiriusXM, Pandora and iHeartRadio. Registration is free and open to artists outside the US, but unclaimed money expires after three years, and self-releasing artists who register only as performers leave the larger share behind.
Industryvia Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
AI music app Treblo released a detector built to recognise its own output, and it returned "very likely Treblo" for Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz", a song then at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Fenix had denied using AI and later admitted it. The bigger story is that a generator that can identify its own output holds leverage over every artist who used it.
AIvia Spotify Newsroom
Music Venue Properties, the charitable community benefit society set up by Music Venue Trust, has bought The Pipeline in Brighton, the tenth grassroots venue secured through its Own Our Venues campaign. The model swaps a commercial landlord for a charitable one. That removes the property risk behind more than a third of venue closures, but it does nothing for the thin margins behind most of the rest.
Industryvia Music Venue Trust
The Mechanical Licensing Collective plans to start paying out unmatched and unclaimed US streaming mechanicals by market share in 2027, beginning with January 2021 usage. Money that nobody has claimed by then goes to whoever already earns the most. Here is how to register, match and claim before it does.
Industryvia The Mechanical Licensing Collective
Spotify's AI Credits run on a DDEX standard that records AI use per role and per file, as None, Partly or All. You can only use it through a distributor that supports it, so here is how to credit AI and human work separately, step by step, with a template you can copy.
Industryvia DDEX
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