What's New. The Shifting Landscape of Music [Rebroadcast and Update]
Title
What's New. The Shifting Landscape of Music [Rebroadcast and Update]
Creator
Cohen, Daniel J., (Daniel Jared), 1968- (Creator)
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.), Libraries (Creator)
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.), Libraries (Creator)
Contributor
Herlihy, David (Contributor)
Language
English
Date created
July 16, 2019
Type of resource
Sound recording
Genre
Podcasts
Format
Sound Recording
Digital origin
born digital
Abstract/Description
In one of our first podcasts of the second season of What's New, I spoke with David Herlihy, an intellectual property lawyer and rock musicion, about the major shifts in how music is listened to and paid for over the last several decades. During that podcast, which was recorded in September of 2018, David mentioned the possibility of a new law that would provide more royalties to the songwriters who create songs in the first place. Well unlike almost all legislation over the past year, that law, the Music Modernization Act, finally got through Congress and was signed into law on October 11, 2018. The MMA will significantly change how the billions of dollars in the music industry is distributed in the age of digital streaming. It mandated the establishment of a non-profit governing agency that will create a database of musical works and who wrote them, and then will hopefully ensure that songwriters are paid a portion of royalties for either physical or digital reproduction of their songs and lyrics. Among those in attendance at the signing of the bill by President Trump were luminaries like Mike Love of the Beach Boys and the R&B legend Sam Moore, and uh also leaning over the president was Kid Rock.
Notes
English language captioning provided by Northeastern University Library staff.
Related item
What's New Podcast
Subjects and keywords
United States. Orrin G. Hatch, Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Streaming audio
Copyright -- Music
License agreements
Copyright licenses -- United States
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Streaming audio
Copyright -- Music
License agreements
Copyright licenses -- United States
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