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ByteDance has chosen HFA’s Rumblefish—owned by SESAC—to handle data, licensing, and royalty management services to ByteDance ...
SESAC holds licensing rights to numerous songs by artists like Neil Diamond, Jack Harlow, Ariana Grande, Hillary Scott of Lady A, Blanco Brown, and others mentioned above.
SESAC’s performance license rates for the 2023-2026 period will have a blanket fee of 0.2824% of revenue, a 10.4% increase from the prior rate.
SESAC announced today that its arbitration with the Radio Music Licensing Committee has resulted in a rate 50 percent higher than the one recently negotiated by ASCAP, which it claimed is the rate ...
SESAC, which “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” has not yet commented ...
SESAC and Online Music File Sharing How much of a problem is online bootlegging and music file-sharing for artists and the recording industry? NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Trevor Gale, ...
Songwriters and music publishers have struck a compromise with SESAC that puts the Music Modernization Act back on the fast track to becoming law this year. The Music Modernization Act, the first ...
From the zoning, land use and preservation questions looming over Music Row to the licensing, copyright and transparency issues being discussed in Silicon Valley and Washington D.C.
SESAC, which has been under majority ownership by private equity firm Rizvi Traverse since December 2012, is ready to grow. That’s the word coming out of the organization, which just picked John ...
Throughout almost two decades, songwriter and producer Luciano Luna has stood out as one of the most prolific artists behind the scenes in regional Mexican music, with songs like “Te Hubieras ...
However, the situation seems somewhat inconsistent, as songs from other SESAC-affiliated artists like Kesha are still accessible. As of now, it remains uncertain when this issue will be resolved.