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The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is a nonprofit organization established under the Music Modernization Act of 2018. [1] It was created to issue blanket mechanical licences for qualified streaming services in the United States, such as Spotify , Apple Music , Amazon Music , and Tidal .
The Free Music Archive (FMA) is an online repository of royalty-free music, currently based in the Netherlands. [1] Established in 2009 by the East Orange, New Jersey community radio station WFMU and in cooperation with fellow stations KBOO and KEXP , it aims to provide music under Creative Commons licenses that can be freely downloaded and ...
DistroKid, formerly titled Fandalism, [3] is an American independent digital music distribution service, founded in 2012 by American entrepreneur Philip J. Kaplan.DistroKid principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to distribute and sell or stream their music through online retailers such as Spotify, Pandora, iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TikTok ...
In November 2023, Spotify expanded free access to 200,000 audiobooks for Spotify Premium subscribers. [225] In April 2024, Spotify expanded access to the audiobooks from the US, UK and Australia to include Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. The company also announced an expansion of its book catalogue to 250,000 books. [226] [207]
The company later credited owners of the affected games with a free download, and there has been no further downtime. [72] In 2011, comedian Louis C.K. released his concert film Live at the Beacon Theater as an inexpensive (US$5), DRM-free download. The only attempt to deter unlicensed copies was a letter emphasizing the lack of corporate ...
Crack is a monthly independent music and culture magazine distributed across Europe. Founded in Bristol in the UK in 2009, [1] the magazine has featured Björk, MF Doom, Lil Yachty, [2] FKA twigs, Gorillaz and Queens of the Stone Age on the cover. The same team, still based in Bristol [3] are also involved with the curation of Simple Things ...
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Soundtrap developers at the 2015 MTFCentral Hack Camp. Soundtrap and Soundtrap AB were founded April 1, 2012 [1] in Stockholm, Sweden by Björn Melinder, Fredrik Posse, Gabriel Sjöberg, and Per Emanuelsson, who believed that it was too "complex to make music" and who wanted to create a studio with collaboration and “a full production environment where you can do professional-sounding ...