In August, FMC’s Kristin Thomson had a chat with Neeta Ragoowansi, membership director for SoundExchange, the agency that collects and distributes the digital public performance royalty. We talked about the basics of how SoundExchange works and its growth over the past four years, and why it’s important for bands, labels and performers to become members of SoundExchange.  Don’t know much about SoundExchange?  Read on to see how it could apply to you. read more

The Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act of 2004, introduced on June 22, 2004, has stirred a lot of debate. The proposed bill, known more as the INDUCE Act, was introduced by Senator and Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT). The dispute over the INDUCE Act is largely taking place between the content creators, which support the protection of their copyrights, and the technology industries, which fear that the bill attacks their current and future innovations. read more

A brief summary of the DMCA for people in the music business touching on diverse subjects such as Copyright Management Information, peer to peer distribution, public libraries, webcasting and SoundExchange. read more