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Re:Pandora and Royalties by cannabis_sam on Thursday June 27, 2013 @03:28AM (#5951086)
Songwriting royalities and performance royalities are two separate pieces of the pie. Just because some artists also get songwriting royalties from radio stations does not change the fact that radio stations don't pay performance royalties.

The only person who lied about this is David Lowery in the headline: "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From a Single T-Shirt Sale!" because that's NOT all he gets, he also get performance royalties (which he clarifies in the blogpost, but the headline is still wrong until he qualify that he's talking about songwriting royalties).

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Re:Pandora and Royalties by adventured on Thursday June 27, 2013 @11:22AM (#5952762)
No they're really not two different pieces of the pie.

Ultimately the rights owner determines everything, and that makes it a very simple equation.

If a performer wants paid, they can determine that by the contract they willingly sign with a publisher. It all comes back to who owns the music and who signs what royalty deals.

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Re:Pandora and Royalties by cannabis_sam on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:42PM (#5954908)
What are you talking about? A publisher owns the copyright to the composition. The performer (or usually her record label) owns the copyright to the recorded sound.

US radio stations pays for one of these, pandora pays for both. http://milomlaw.com/news/terrestrial-radio-performance-royal...

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