The ruling also included a late fee for streaming services that don't pay publishers and songwriters on time. “This is the best mechanical rate scenario for songwriters in U.S. history which is critically important as interactive streaming continues to dominate the market,” NMPA CEO David Israelite said in a
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Now Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, Pandora, and other streaming music services will be required to pay 15.1 percent of their revenue to songwriters and publishers, increasing from 10.5 percent. Companies with “less diversified” services like Spotify and Pandora — which are focused on
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The curriculum will see students get hands-on training in everything from broadcasting writing, vocal training, interviewing techniques, and sportscasting. Patrick has enlisted some of his former ESPN colleagues as associate faculty members, including Bill Simmons, Jeremy Schapp, Jay Harris, Sage
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Last year's creation,​ Calliope 2017: Safe Harbors , featured a nautical theme and 191 pages of thoughtful, high-quality work. It contained artwork and creative writing crafted by over eighty members of High Point's student body. Each year, the staff works diligently to make sure the publication represents
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“Originally it was just in creative writing,” said John Mosier, Loyola English professor. “We gradually added categories and it got bigger and bigger.” Mosier oversees the entire competition and reads every submission as an overall evaluation of how the students are doing in their writing. “I'm very pleased
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It is being made available at a special price after the rights were sold to Kolkata-based publisher BEE Books by Historic Environment Scotland. The book will also be published in the US by Pegasus. The visit to Kolkata is the result of a partnership between Bloody Scotland, BEE Books, and Publishers
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Big market makers in ingredients do tend to settle on best sellers, and engage in innovation only so far as it protects their market share and margins. But dig deeper, and experts that have spoken with NutraIngredients-USA say that there are innovative ingredients and approaches out there if you know
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Since 1988 Fishtrap has hosted writing workshops, classes and lectures. While the organization is best known outside Wallowa County for its weeklong event, Summer Fishtrap, held in July at a camp just south of the shores of Wallowa Lake, most of the organization's offerings are geared to locals.
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The idea that, just because somebody has a knack for creative writing, their brain will turn to mashed potato if faced with a compound interest calculation is as pernicious as it is nonsensical. My degree is in a subject that certain dinosaur-minded people might dismiss as 'mickey mouse' – English with
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