Items tagged with music industry

There’s good news for Internet radio sites such as Pandora. A group of webcasters have reached an agreement with SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalties for musicians and record companies, over royalty payments for playing music online. The dispute has been going on for two and a half years and has threatened to silence the... Read more...
Various companies and even the RIAA have either settled with or won numerous law suits against pirates and/or networks that allow piracy such as the old Napster or Kazaa.  We're talking at least 9-figures worth of damages awarded and/or settlements paid off, but yet the artists don't seem to be getting paid:"Artist managers and lawyers... Read more...