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Comedians' works are streamed and broadcast across Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, SiriusXM, and more. However, unlike music where royalties are paid for two copyrights (composition and master recording), Comedians have only ever been paid royalties

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Season 2/ Episode 7 Rachel Francine/ Co-Founder and CEO, SingFit Andy Tubman/ Co-Founder and Chief of Therapeutics and Music, SingFit If there is one that I have learned doing this podcast for the past two years, it’s that music contains value

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Gregory Roach Season 2/ Episode 8 Sometimes, you just want to sit back, have a cup of coffee and listen to war stories from a bygone era. This is that kind of Podcast.. Gregory Roach has had an eclectic career. He worked at "Grendel's Lair", th

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Judith Finell - Judith Finell, Music Service Season 2/ Episode 8 You probably didn't watch, but on a Saturday night in April of 1983, "The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair," aired on NBC. Trust me on this; it wa

Judith Has Perfect Pitch

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Judith Finell, Musicologist, president of Judith Finell Music Services Season 2, Episode 6 Ever started explaining something to a friend, and you can tell, usually, immediately, this person has no idea what you're talking about (you can see it

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Nov 26th, 2018 1h 4m

Paul Resnikoff - Founder, Digital Music News Season 2/ Episode 5 The second season finale of the original Star Trek back in 1969 was an odd episode. You will see where I am going with this in a moment..... Yes, Kirk and Spock are in the top of

Really Cool Uncorrelated assets

Nov 7th, 2018 19m 13s

What a piece of the Merrie Melodies? How about Bette Midler? Etta James? Santana? Well, they have all been for sale. One of the goals of this podcast has been to figure out all the ways music can generate money. We know about album sales, we've

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Aug 27th, 2018 38m 17s

Danny Turner - Monetizing Moods. Global Senior Vice President for Creative Programming at Mood Media Season 2/ Episode 3 I've never been able to get the final scene from the "Blues Brothers," out of my head. Jake and Elwood spend the entirety o

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So...What Is Music Publishing

Jul 20th, 2018 34m 48s

"Wait … You were in a Christian Rock Band? And you had to talk with Mr. Potty mouth - Me?" "It's OK Jeff, I've been in the music business a long time" Season 2/ Episode 2 - John Barker, and Everything you ever wanted to know about licensing -

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Jun 29th, 2018 36m 28s

Season 2/ Episode 1: Carin Gilfry – “Carin – Like Car in the Garage” Three things you need to know about today’s podcast… First, “yes” we have been away for a little while. Life, work, family – all the things that get in the way of a successful

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Shawn Stern didn’t set out to become a Punk Rock Icon. When he - along with his two brothers - created the (now) seminal band Youth Brigade back in 1980, all they really wanted to do was play music and hang with friends. Punk Rock, he quickly

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Feb 24th, 2016 25m 18s

“This is a labyrinth of rules…. “Gino Olivieri, President Premier Muzik.Are American Performers getting the money owed to them? In many cases – no, and it’s all perfectly legal. Back on October 26, 1961, representatives from 26 countries si

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Dec 3rd, 2015 29m 42s

“So, I told my wife, I bought this new domain and she said, ‘what did you pay?’”I told her, ’a thousand dollars’.She was dumbfounded, ’That’s just two letters and a number!” So, I said, ‘no no no… trust me… it’s going to be big!’”- Michae

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Oct 1st, 2015 31m 1s

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Aug 18th, 2015 24m 45s

“Musicians say they want to be in the business of music and yet they don’t understand the very basic concepts - it’s very strange to me.”Everyone wants to be a musician but according to George Howard nobody understands the business. George

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Aug 6th, 2015 23m 49s

Why are artists so angry about their royalties from streaming music services like Spotify? Is there really no money or is there money but a crazy math formula that calculates who gets what is, well, just wrong.Could the problem really be a b

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Jul 9th, 2015 21m 56s

“Our function is to create new acts. Our function is to make famous. That is what we do, that is our unique skill set. We take artists, we develop them, we promote them, we make them the biggest most popular artists in the world.”- Avery Lip

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Jun 9th, 2015 22m 50s

“There is a wonderful moment in Spinal Tap where the manager says to the artist, ‘look, it doesn’t matter how much we talk about it, there is no way to promote something that doesn't exist’. And what occurred to me back in 2006, when I was liv

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May 12th, 2015 18m 10s

“The ones that are in control are very happy with the system. They are making a disproportionate amount of the collection and the distribution - wrongfully in my opinion, unethically and immorally…..We’re out there everyday standing at the mou

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Apr 16th, 2015 33m 22s

In this Episode, meet Scott Schreer. Scott wrote the music for "Have A Coke and A Smile", the NFL theme Song for Fox along with a myriad of jingles and scores for Snickers, Volkswagen, The Cosby Show and many many others. So how does Scott, and

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