NMPA warns streaming services to respect 44% royalty-rise
A recent ruling by the US Copyright Royalty Board set out the royalty rates that on-demand music-streaming services must pay songwriters over the next five years. The key figure: a 44% rise in those royalties over that period. Now the boss of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) David Israelite has warned streaming services that they should not appeal against the rates. “The digital music companies now have 30 days to decide whether to appeal that ruling, and in e