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FTMI joins NYS legal panel on foreign music publishing and neighboring rights

04 Nov 2024

On Friday 1 November, FTMI advisory board member, Charlie Sanders, participated in New York State Bar Association’s panel on foreign music publishing and neighboring rights. Representing FTMI, the Songwriters Guild of America and Music Creators North America, Charlie was joined by…

MCNA applauds congressional interest in balancing MLC board of directors

02 Oct 2023

Hundreds of millions in songwriter and composer royalties at stake NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 2, 2023: The organizational members of the Music Creators North America (MCNA) alliance, including the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA), the Society of Composers & Lyricists…

Upcoming Event: Symposium on protecting free speech in the global music landscape

24 Feb 2023

On March 3, 2023, FTMI board advisor, Charles Sanders, will be co-hosting an important symposium on political violence against music creators. The event is presented by the National Music Council of the United States and the the International Music Council…

FTMI endorses comments urging CRB to to reconsider royalty rates for music streaming

07 Dec 2022

Fair Trade Music International has endorsed a submission by the Songwriters Guild of America, Inc., the Society of Composers & Lyricists, Music Creators North America and the individual music creators Rick Carnes and Ashley Irwin to the Copyright Royalty Board…

Musical culture and economics rest on both speech freedoms and copyright protections

19 Nov 2022

New York, November 19, 2022: With the suppression of artistic freedoms on the rise throughout the world, it remains clear that many governments continue to view the longstanding practice of lashing out against music creators to be an especially effective…

MCNA thanks US Copyright Royalty Board for its positive response to calls for transparency

18 Oct 2022

Our international partners, Music Creators North America announced their elation today at the US Copyright Royalty Board’s (CRB) positive response to the filings by songwriter George Johnson and MCNA, regarding the dire need for transparency in the mechanical rate setting…

Maria Schneider achieves important, incremental victory against YouTube

08 Aug 2022

One of Fair Trade Music’s international partners is Music Creators North America (MCNA), the umbrella group and international representative for the independent songwriter and composer communities of the United States and Canada. MCNA recently issued a press release declaring its…

Independent music creator groups will again speak out on new CRB Phonorecords IV royalty proposal

04 May 2022

SGA, SCL & MCNA to review the new mechanical royalty rate settlement of the major labels and publishers, seeking to ensure that the music creator proposals on which they are based have been fully incorporated May 4, 2022: New York…

International songwriter groups join together to oppose the freezing of US mechanical royalty rates

28 Jul 2021

Music Creators North America, the Songwriters Guild of America and the Society of Composers & Lyricists have been joined by nine domestic and international groups representing the interests of half a million songwriters and composers in filing comments before the…

US music creator organizations SGA, SCL and MCNA applaud Copyright Office “best practices” recommendations to the MLC

10 Jul 2021

Groups also warn “there is a long way to go” toward identifying the proper recipients of unmatched royalties. The Songwriters Guild of America (SGA), the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), and the Music Creators of North America (MCNA) coalition…