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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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SOCAN Built a C$587 Million Tollbooth for Music - Now AI Is Cutting a Side Door
Media · Enterprise

SOCAN Built a C$587 Million Tollbooth for Music - Now AI Is Cutting a Side Door

For a century, SOCAN made an impossible market workable by turning millions of songs and uses into licenses and royalty cheques. Its next test is harder: finding the human creator inside a flood of streams, metadata and machine-made music.

music-rights · royalty-collectionRead →
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The Company That Collects the World’s Songs - One Split at a Time
Media · Enterprise

The Company That Collects the World’s Songs - One Split at a Time

Sony Music Publishing does not sell listeners a subscription. It makes the machinery behind a song work - registering ownership, collecting royalties and finding the next screen, stream or market where a composition belongs.

music-publishing · music-rightsRead →
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ASCAP Is the Quiet Machine Behind Every Public Play
Media · Enterprise · Saas

ASCAP Is the Quiet Machine Behind Every Public Play

A song can travel from a phone to a stadium in seconds. ASCAP's hard, mostly invisible job is to notice the trip, price the public performance and send the money home.

music-licensing · performance-rightsRead →