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Musical copyright is a designation of intellectual property similar to a patent or trademark. Once an original composition has been fixed in a medium...
When you submit the forms to copyright your music, you’re protecting yourself simply by providing a kind of government-approved date-stamp for your music...
I want my favorite musicians making music, not raising funds so that they can Today I received an email from one of my favorite indie bands, Saucy Monky, announcing Part 2 of their Trophy Girl EP s...
Sven-Erik Seaholm is an award-winning independent record producer, singer and songwriter. He writes about producing great vocals in the your home.
As you have probably heard, Google has put their newest streaming music offering into play, calling it (awkwardly) Google Play All Access. Personalizability, interactivity, it's all here. It's call...
1 out of every 14 music download sales begins with Shazam. If you've ever wondered how to get your music on Shazam, the answer is simple: CD Baby!
Must watch video. ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams gave an informative and inspirational speech at this year's meeting, speaking eloquently about the pitifully low royalties being paid by...
There's much more to recording an electronic instrument than just feeding the output to an empty track by Craig Anderton Reco
It is one of the oldest and thorniest questions of the digital music era: How much should artists and musicians be compensated for the Internet broadcast of their songs? And who gets to decide that rate?
One of the issues with crowdfunding is feeling like you are constantly manufacturing a big event or crisis to fundraise off of. Instead of finding a way to consistently fund artists, we have turned...
Mobile was the fastest growing segment of streaming audio consumption in the March 2013 ranker just released by Triton Digital. Mobile listening accounted for 56% of all audio consumption in March ...
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It’s time to take a look at the snare, hi hat, toms and room mics to round out a great sound and bring it all together.
It's nice to see a startup trying something different and garnering some promising traction along the way.
As the home studio has evolved, so has the MIDI controller to fit the needs of the musician and the software that has become a part of the studio arsenal.
A federal judge denied class-action status to music publishers who sued Google Inc.’s YouTube, claiming that it violated copyrights by allowing the posting of music clips on the website without authorization.
You can have a lot of fun making music, but getting a good recording and arrangement of your song requires some work and knowledge.
It's a week for streaming services to boast about the size of their audience, with both Slacker and iHeartradio making announcements that they have grown. Slacker, which relaunched with a new desig...
The language used to translate sound into digital information celebrates its 30th anniversary. Today, MIDI is everywhere, including nearly every pop song on the radio and the fountain at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
A few thoughts on overhead mics for catching great cymbal sounds and theory about mic’ing the kick drum.
For all publishing royalties that are generated from the usage of your music, 50% is paid to the songwriter/s and 50% is paid to the publisher/s.
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