Online Sales Chart of the Day

Ever wonder how much music artists get paid in the digital market place?  This chart provides a glimpse.

More Bad News for Big Online Music Publishers

In addition to the other problems music publishers have faced in the past few years, we can now add the possibility of civil liability for violations of US and state antitrust laws. That was the holding in a recent Second Circuit case reinstating a lawsuit that had been dismissed in 2008.

In Starr v. Sony BMG Music Entertainment, a group of online music buyers sued the largest music publishers and distributors for an alleged conspiracy to “restrain the availability and distribution of Internet Music, fix and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the prices at which they sold Internet Music, and impose unreasonably restrictive terms in the purchase and use of Internet Music.” Read more »