{"id":2682,"date":"2018-08-30T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2018-08-30T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:12:54","slug":"how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"How Musicians Make Money \u2014 Or Don\u2019t at All \u2014 in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this interesting article on Rolling Stone&#8217;s website earlier this month. Here&#8217;s the first couple of paragraphs. Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018-706745\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The buzziest word in music this year is the one that used to be the most utterly boring.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u2014 ownership of songs and albums as creative works \u2014 is a riotous knot of rules and processes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-industry\/\">music industry<\/a>, with the players much more numerous and entangled than the ordinary fan might think. But between Congress mulling over the much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-music-industry-cant-agree-with-itself-even-when-congress-can-704688\/\">Music Modernization Act<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ed-sheeran-sued-for-more-than-20-million-for-alleged-plagiarism-109805\/\">plagiarism battles<\/a> between major songwriters raging and Wall Street scrutinizing Spotify\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/spotify-hits-180-million-users-and-loses-even-more-money-703781\/\"> lack of profitability as a public company<\/a>, it\u2019s helpful to have at least a basic understanding of music\u2019s U.S. financial system in order to ponder its future.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with: \u201cRoyalties\u201d are the sums paid to rights-holders when their creations are sold, distributed, embedded in other media or monetized in any other way. Here\u2019s <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s guide to how musicians, songwriters and producers in the digital era actually get their hands on that money.<\/p>\n<p>Read more &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018-706745\/\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018-706745\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this interesting article on Rolling Stone&#8217;s website earlier this month. Here&#8217;s the first couple of paragraphs. Read the rest here. The buzziest word in music this year is the one that used to be the most utterly boring. Copyright \u2014 ownership of songs and albums as creative works \u2014 is a riotous knot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}