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Reps. Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, California Democrats representing the region home to Facebook and Google, have been tech-industry allies. Their 132-page bill would give Americans new rights to control how online services use their personal information and create a U.S. Digital Privacy Agency to write and enforce privacy rules.

Source: Silicon Valley’s Congresswomen Want a New Tech Regulator

PRS for Music is the latest company to join the analytics bonanza with the launch yesterday (5 November) of a bespoke royalty dashboard for writers, their managers and publishers. It is available to all PRS members through their online account profile, and covers streams, downloads, broadcast, live and business usage of their works.

Source: PRS for Music launches a data dashboard for songwriters – Music Ally

VEVA Live focuses on real-time turnaround. All of the hi-res audio and metadata captured from the night is immediately accessible via VEVA’s platform, Asset Connect. Working directly with the FOH engineer, VEVA is able to connect the entire artist team — ranging from management, their label, marketing, and social media teams — to quickly access the material and decide how to exploit it.

Source: Touring Artists Are Sitting on a Goldmine of Live Recordings — Veva Live Is Doing Something About It

Perhaps the biggest cause of missed revenue and undetected rights conflicts is poor matching. When an ISWC is present (and correct) the match is easy. But in our experience only about 30% of the songs in publisher databases have an ISWC. Blokur now uses our new graph-based matching, which ensures that your song registration will be matched to what other publishers are claiming for that song with or without an ISWC.

Source: Leaving Beta — Three things for music publishers to look out for in the new Blokur

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, which includes many Hollywood studios as well as the streaming giants Netflix and Amazon, plans to take on password sharing. While no concrete measures have been announced, a new working group will look into the issue and help to establish best practices to address this and other forms of unauthorized content use.

Source: Global Anti-Piracy Coalition Takes On Password Sharing – TorrentFreak

The Mechanical Licensing Collective’s healthy startup budget is meeting resistance from at least one major streaming platform. An executive at the platform — which is easily one of the top five in terms of sheer size and subscribers — indicated that the MLC’s math is being regarded as wildly expensive.

Source: Streaming Giant Balks at MLC’s $66.25 Million Startup Budget

The web-based workflow app Bounce is now available in a public version. Developed by Godmode Music co-founders Talya Elitzer and Nick Sylvester, Bounce streamlines file sharing during a record’s creation by allowing music creators and their team to organize tracks and metadata, compare different versions, securely share demos and send and receive time-stamped, threaded feedback.

Source: Music Workflow App Bounce Launches Public Version

As audiences increasingly turn away from television and radio, opportunities for mass exposure are limited. Streaming is a stopgap offering exposure through popular playlists, but with millions of playlists in existence across numerous platforms, each with specific themes and audiences, the likelihood of any song propelling an artist or group to widespread popularity is low.

Source: Music’s Discovery Problem Persists

As part of this campaign, the Recording Academy has partnered with Australian music metadata and authentication company Jaxsta, which boasts more than 100 million officially sourced credits from music labels and distributors across its database.

Source: The Grammys organizer is giving artists a metadata gold mine to credit unrecognized music workers

Pandora has added full detailed song credits to users across all tiers of its service on the web and on new desktop apps for Mac and Windows. To view the full list of credits, users click on “See All Song Credits” to see all of the people who participated in in the recording from background singers to songwriters to the guy who played the marimba on “Sweet Emotion.”

Source: Pandora Adds Detailed Song Credits As Recording Academy Plots ‘Behind the Record’ Campaign