- The US government-controlled Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) sets the royalty rate songwriters receive from streaming services.
- Last year, the CRB ruled that composers and publishers would be paid the higher of 15.1% of a streaming service’s total revenues or 26.2% of total content costs (amount streaming service pays to record labels and artists) by 2022.
- Apple proposes generously paying songwriters $0.00091 per stream over 30 seconds.
- Other platforms (eg Spotify, Google) appealed the CRB ruling and reject pay-per-play because they aren’t profitable.
