Category: Music licensing
Web3
Sidechain: Music NFT streaming apps under fire, FTX fallout impact, and songwriter challenges in Web3
December 11 2022
Capturing the W&M community’s unique, early-adopter, critical pulse on the music/Web3 landscape, backed by ongoing reporting from our Web3 research team that you won’t find elsewhere.
Gaming
The Score: How Beatstar generated $73M in revenue — including $16M to rightsholders — in year one
November 21 2022
In September 2022, Space Ape Games announced that its mobile rhythm game Beatstar had generated $73 million in revenue — and shared over $16 million of its income with rightsholders, in a revenue-share model that is almost unheard of in the video game industry.
Emerging tech
Are music deepfakes considered fair use?
July 29 2021
Big tech
What Google v. Oracle means for the music industry
December 07 2020
Artists
Why hasn’t the music industry’s pro-UGC mentality translated to merch?
July 07 2019