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All things royalties, profit-share, and art+commerce, from the experts at Infinite Catalog.
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🤝 Integrations in the royalty stack are a win for independents everywhere
Integrations between music platforms shouldn't be revolutionary, and yet...
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Hunter Giles
True Royalty Stories: New Order's Blue (and very expensive) Monday
We take a look at how New Order lost money on every copy they sold of their iconic single Blue Monday
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Adam Burton
MBW Guest Post: How Four Tet vs. Domino Points To Our Industry's Profit-Share Future
Originally published on Music Business Worldwide Profit-share record deals – sometimes called “50/50 deals,” in reference to their most common form …
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Hunter Giles
🌳This Song Plants Trees (At Artists' Expense)
How streaming services calculate royalties, featuring trees
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Hunter Giles
📊 Royalty Sandbox: Simple Profit Share w/ Advance
How do royalties actually breakdown in a record deal? There's no better place to start than this: the simplest, most common, and - in this royalty…
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Hunter Giles
Distributor splits tools: so close, yet so far
There are a lot of distributors out there these days, and some of them have the ability for users to divvy up royalties amongst collaborators. Around…
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Hunter Giles
The 360 deal wasn’t wrong, it was oriented incorrectly
If you’re a creator, or work with creators, you might be familiar with something called the “360 deal.” These largely-maligned deals became a thing in…
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Hunter Giles
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