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Fair Trade Music releases a songwriters’ guide to the MLC unmatched royalties issue

28 Oct 2022

Fair Trade Music International has released an educational video to help music creators understand and address the MLC unmatched royalty issue. In this two-minute animation, we explain how these unclaimed royalties came about and describe what each creator can do…

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…

Mechanical royalties: Footnote to a historic achievement

11 May 2022

Our international partner, the International Council of Music Creators (CIAM) has released a summary of the recent achievements regarding the US Copyright Royalty Board and mechanical royalties on physical and downloads. The text is reproduced below: In this, the…

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…

Victory for music creators over frozen mechanical royalties

30 Mar 2022

Our colleagues in the U.S. reported yesterday that the country’s Copyright Royalty Board has rejected the proposal to freeze mechanical and download royalty rates made by corporate giants in the record and music publishing industry. These groups had argued that…

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…

Physical sales and downloads: Why they still matter to music creators

11 Jun 2021

Music Creators North America (MCNA) shared the following article today which posed the question: how important are the sales of CDs, vinyl records and downloads to artists, songwriters, composers and record labels? This question has become a hot topic recently…