Country artists win US radio royalties victory - BBC News
A new deal between media giant Clear Channel and a leading Nashville music label could pave the way to all artists being paid for US radio airplay.
The agreements gives artists on the Big Machine label payment for songs played on traditional radio stations for the first time.
In exchange, artists have agreed to a cap on payments from tracks played on digital stations.
Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw are among artists who will benefit from the deal.
"We're going to more than double our income from Clear Channel in the short term," said Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta.
"They'll make it up on the back end as digital continues to grow."
Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman called the deal "an opportunity... to align our interests in all of our revenue streams and grow digital listening to its full potential."
The deal is a significant coup for the record industry, which has been trying to secure royalties from songs played on traditional radio for decades.
Songwriters receive a small amount when their songs are played on US radio, whereas performers do not.
But they are paid royalties for online usage, placing a heavier financial onus on digital radio platforms than their terrestrial counterparts.
Rather than compensating artists every time a song is played, the Clear Channel agreement will pay them a share of advertising revenue generated across all platforms.
Clear Channel's 850 stations make it the largest radio group in the United States and a major influence on broadcasting practice.
RSS had no choice but to submit to Modi - MSN India
New Delhi: Age at times facilitates fantasy. Many mighty ones in their ripe age have subjected themselves to the crack of a leather whip, only to convulse in sublime pleasure.
While it celebrated the 'discipline' of its cadres all along, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seems to be willingly submitting itself to the lashes of a dominant Narendra Modi, who is perennially in the quest of power. What emerged after the recent National Executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai can at best be described as Risk Aware Consensual Kink (RACK), and it continues.
For the ripe ones in the Sangh, it is no surprise that Modi, the quintessential autocrat, has the power as well as the tendency to outgrow the limits set for him. Therefore, in his coronation lies the risk of obliteration for the body that created him. Yet, the lure of power is too great to let go.
The quasi-fuhrer that the RSS had found in Modi is capable of forging columns of followers who would idolise him and carry out his diktats in toto, no matter how much the formation is out of sync with India's democratic values. Modi has been a man of his own throughout his career and there is no reason to believe that there would be any occasion in future for him to be otherwise.
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