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>I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compens
by OtherShrezzing 2y ago
>I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,"
Possibly some European style music licensing model, but for articles. PRS for example[1] in the UK is a copyright collective. Bars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return. The PRS body distributes what it decides is an equitable distribution to artists & labels. For most of PRS' history, there was very little science in determining who had the most plays, but everyone seemed to agree with the distribution.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music
- reaperducer 2y agoBars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return. I worked for a company that was signed up for a similar service in the United States. We had a blanket license for music, for which we paid a little over $1 million each year. This was around 2001. A couple of times a year, we'd pull an intern aside and his job for the entire day was to sit there with a pencil and steno pad and write down all the music we used. That was typed into a report and sent to the licensing company which determined how much each artist would get paid. These days, with advances in music recognition technology, it's probably all very automated and more thorough.