Labels are feeling the need to be protective of their resources during this uncertain and unprecedented period, and developing a new artist can appear quite risky given the current (and rather desolate) landscape. But veteran artists who are already signed need more material in their arsenal than ever in order to feed the digital beast and remain relevant. From a publisher’s perspective, fresh ideas from talented songwriters are currency right now.
Source: ‘It’s Completely Eye-Opening’: Why Publishers Are Still Snatching Up New Songwriters
How much knowledge is “enough” to require preemptive removal has been a key question at the heart of some of the most important and precedential litigation over the DMCA since its enactment, including UMG v. Veoh and Viacom v. YouTube. In those cases and others, courts have generally set the bar for red-flag knowledge quite high, much to the dismay of copyright owners. But in its report, the Copyright Office makes clear it thinks the courts have got it wrong and that Congress should “clarify” that it intended the bar to be lower.
Subscribers to FilmChain, including HBO, Film Agency Wales and Screen Australia, can log into a dashboard that shows incoming revenues and how they are allocated based on a film’s contracts. The platform also allows revenues to be withdrawn in fiat currencies and performance reports are generated on-demand.