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Crash Course on Music Publishing – Part 4

By Carlos Alvarez on Monday Jan, 23rd 2012

In part I of this article I left out one exclusive right under Copyright law. . . on purpose of course.  It is Digital Audio Transmission.

Basically referring to the new online & Satellite transmission of recordings, specifically, STREAMING (streaming audio, subscription-based entities).  Examples: Pandora Radio, Sirius/XM, Spotify, etc. . .

Crash Course on Music Publishing – Part 3

By Carlos Alvarez on Monday Dec, 5th 2011

Before I continue, I wanted to mention briefly that I was just recently asked by a reader of this article of when should a writer expect to be paid his/her royalties.  The music publishing industry works on a quarterly basis when it comes to getting paid.  So for all royalties generated by the use of the song, the music publishers will receive royalty payments every quarter.