MySpace Music's acquisition of imeem revealed, for the umpteenth time, a major problem with the music business — not piracy, nor the ongoing failure of pure-play ad-supported music services, but ...

Performance rights groups ASCAP and BMI have teamed up to create what they are billing as a “single, comprehensive database of musical works from their combined repertories that will deliver an ...

Music rights data matching failures lead to millions of dollars never being paid to publishers and songwriters. Congress has recently discussed establishing a core database to facilitate licensing and ...

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It is rush hour on Tin Pan Alley, at least when it comes to music license-related legislation. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) has introduced the “Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act,“ ...