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ByteDance has chosen HFA’s Rumblefish—owned by SESAC—to handle data, licensing, and royalty management services to ByteDance ...
SESAC’s performance license rates for the 2023-2026 period will have a blanket fee of 0.2824% of revenue, a 10.4% increase from the prior rate.
Rumblefish is part of SESAC’s ‘Music Services’ division alongside operations such as AudioSalad, Audiam, HAAWK, HFA, Mint, ...
SESAC holds licensing rights to numerous songs by artists like Neil Diamond, Jack Harlow, Ariana Grande, Hillary Scott of Lady A, Blanco Brown, and others mentioned above.
HFA’s Rumblefish, a longstanding authority in music rights administration, has partnered with ByteDance to support two of its ...
SESAC announced today that its arbitration with the Radio Music Licensing Committee has resulted in a rate 50 percent higher than the one recently negotiated by ASCAP, which it claimed is the rate ...
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YouTube reached a deal with performing rights organization SESAC on new licensing terms, which will restore music videos for artists that went dark on the platform over the weekend.. Songs by ...
SESAC, which “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” has not yet commented ...
Due to a licensing dispute with SESAC, a ton of songs have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music in the US. YouTube remains in “active conversations with SESAC and are hoping to reach a ...
Songwriters and music publishers have struck a compromise with SESAC that puts the Music Modernization Act back on the fast track to becoming law this year. The Music Modernization Act, the first ...
SESAC, which has been under majority ownership by private equity firm Rizvi Traverse since December 2012, is ready to grow. That’s the word coming out of the organization, which just picked John ...