A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

Posted in Commerce Opportunity, Member Services by A2IM

From AIM president/WIN chair Alison Wenham:

Dear Member,

PPL, the UK’s society for the collection and distribution of public performance and broadcast income, is changing its distribution policy to close previous distributions prior to the statutory limitation period of 6 years. This means that unclaimed income will only be held for a period of six years. The last date to claim unclaimed income from the previous years is 26th July 2010.

So, in the next month, there is a major effort to identify the rights owners of tracks, which have earned public performance and/or broadcast income in the UK between 1996-2003.

If you believe you may have had airplay or public performance in the UK for specific songs/artists within this period, and you were a member of PPL during this time, you may be eligible to claim the income. If you are not a direct member, but your distributor was a member during this period, they may be able to process the claim on your behalf.

To check the list, please use the link below and enter your PPL details.

http://ppluk.com/en/Record-Companies/

Many thanks

Alison Wenham
Chairman
Worldwide Independent Network

Posted in Commerce Opportunity by A2IM

On February 19th, SoundExchange and A2IM presented a webinar, Q1Y10 Webinar for Labels and Sound Recording Copyright Owners, to address the issues which affect how independent labels are paid by SoundExchange.

View the entire webinar below.

Posted in Commerce Opportunity by A2IM

Independent labels thriving in today’s music industry are making sure they leave no revenue stream untapped.  As most of our members are aware, master owners (and performing artists) are due a royalty when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable and satellite television music, internet radio, and satellite radio (such as SiriusXM).  In the U.S. these royalties are collected and distributed by SoundExchange.

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Posted in Commerce Opportunity, Events, Member Services by A2IM

Due to inclement weather in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States (including the transportation/communication breakdown in Washington D.C.), SoundExchange has postponed the call scheduled for Wednesday, February 10th and rescheduled the Webinar to Friday, February 19th from 2-3pm EST.

All Independent Labels should participate in this SoundExchange/A2IM Webinar (Friday, 2/19; 2p-3p EST).

Even if you are already registered to collect royalties from SoundExchange,
you may be missing money owed to you due to incorrect data!

Click here for call info:  http://tinyurl.com/SXWebinarQ1Y10

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Posted in 2010 #31, Member Services, Newsletter by A2IM

AARC is the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies that collects home taping royalties (home recording machines and blank disc royalties) in the U.S. and overseas for The Netherlands and Japan (where rental fees are also collected) plus additional territories for your artists. AARC is about to close their books for 2009 so if you have not registered your label or your artists register now at www.aarcroyaties.com! If you have registered get in your overseas sales data now! Register your label and your label’s artists now!!

Posted in 2010 #31, Newsletter by A2IM

Hold the date! We will have a SoundExchange conference call on Wednesday February 10th at 2PM EST/11AM PST. The call is being held to ensure that all labels and their artists get the royalties they are entitled to receive. Topics for this call will include how best to regularly check that all of your repertoire is properly designated and that someone else isn’t being paid for your tracks

In the meantime verify you are receiving all of your label’s SoundExchange performance royalties by reviewing the statement you receive from SoundExchange against a list of the sound recordings your label controls. The reason we raise this as an issue is because the SoundExchange royalty reporting is based upon the ownership information on tracks that comes from the services (Sirius/XM, Clear Channel, Slacker, etc.) reporting and a number of our members have noticed missing titles so members should audit the SoundExchange reports they receive.

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