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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/05/24 01:49 PM
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This sounds to me like a loss to songwriter rights rather than a win or am I missing something? This means fractional licensing continues. Which means that digital services like Google has to continue getting all rights for songs from all writers/publishers involved. The idea of the "new" consent decree was for them to be able to go to a single writer for the rights of the song - meaning they could find out who was cheapest, then license it 100% from the cheapest source. Thus it would depend on your view of if its better to have fractional licensing or force 100% licensing upon everyone involved in a song by one person. I've had co-writers ask me to sign various worthless "exposure" type of deals. However, if this had gone thru, I might have been forced into any one of those bad deals even though I'm not BMI or ASCAP. Though I wonder how all that would play out if the DOJ did get the 100% licensing done, if a song involved a SESAC writer (as SESAC is not under the Consent Decree).
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