The Digital Solution: A Plan For Collecting and Distributing Streaming Music Royalties

A Plan For Collecting and Distributing Streaming Music Royalties. Second Edition For owners of intellectual property these are uncertain times. The music marketplace is transitioning rapidly, but royalty collection seems stuck in the past. Songwriters, publishers, record labels, artists and other members of the creative community are caught like deer in the headlights. Everyone knows a train is coming, but can’t seem to evolve their current business models in a way that will move them off the tracks. If these concerns are important to you, then you are this book’s target audience. The goal is simple—to place the entertainment industry on solid footing so that as the digital future unfolds, the creative community and intellectual property owners can be fairly compensated and not be left behind. There’s no time to waste...

Born and raised in Boston, MA., David M. Ross graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with a B.S. in Economics and later attended the Berklee College of Music, majoring in arranging. After spending ten years on the road as a professional musician, Ross traveled to Nashville and in April 1981 founded MusicRow magazine which he sold in 2008 after a successful 30-year reign as Publisher/CEO. During his time at MusicRow he pioneered and refined many of the email/social media marketing techniques revealed in his first book, Secrets Of The List. One of country music's most-read industry analysts, Ross' continues to cover the intersection between Nashville's entertainment business and technology on www.Nekst.biz a blog about "Music And The Technology It Powers." Currently Ross serves on the Board of Directors of The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Country Music Association. He received the CMA President's Award for Outstanding Service in 1998 and the Canadian Country Music Association's prestigious Leonard T. Rambeau Award for International Achievement in 2003.