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CMU Trends: Music Rights Data
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 26 August 2020
The latest CMU Trends ten step guide is all about music rights data, the music industry’s key data standards and databases, and how bad data can stop artists and songwriters from getting paid.
It provides all the basics about data standards like the ISRC, IPN, ISWC and IPI. It also discusses what data needs to be in the system in order for music to be properly licensed and royalties properly paid, and introduces the databases and organisations that power that system.
It then explains how – while music rights data has always been important – it’s more important now than ever before. Especially on the songs side, where complexities with digital licensing and streaming royalties mean money can very easily get lost in the system – or be paid to the wrong people entirely – where different data points are missing or in conflict.
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