by Ashley Jones | May 6, 2022 | Front Page, Media
The following op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). NMPA is the trade association representing American music publishers and their songwriting partners. A new settlement between the National...
by Ashley Jones | May 6, 2022 | Front Page, Media
Last month, MBW told you about an epic negotiation going on in the United States over certain types of mechanical royalty rates paid to songwriters for sales of physical music, as well as downloads. Today (May 5), we learn that the groups representing songwriters,...
by Ashley Jones | May 6, 2022 | Front Page, Media
On Thursday (May 5), trade groups representing the major record labels, publishers and songwriters announced a settlement to increase the mechanical rate for physical and download sales to 12 cents per song — a 32% boost from the 9.1 cent rate that has been in place...
by Ashley Jones | May 3, 2022 | Front Page, Media
This week In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: David Israelite, President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association. In his role as a top-level music industry spokesman, David Israelite moves effortlessly between the music publishing and technology...
by Ashley Jones | Apr 28, 2022 | Front Page, Media
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) will hold its annual meeting on June 15, 2022, at New York City’s Lincoln Center, the organization announced Wednesday (April 27). This is the first year since 2019 that the NMPA has been able to host its annual...
by Ashley Jones | Apr 28, 2022 | Front Page, Media
Monday’s announcement that Elon Musk would buy Twitter for $44 billion spurred a tsunami of speculation about what the world’s richest man would attempt to do with the platform, and how those actions would impact its more than 200 million daily users. Sen. Elizabeth...
