What the heck is public performance and why does it generate $6 billion dollars - a podcast by Jeff Price & Ted Gerstein

In this Episode, meet Scott Schreer. Scott wrote the music for "Have A Coke and A Smile", the NFL theme Song for Fox along with a myriad of jingles and scores for Snickers, Volkswagen, The Cosby Show and many many others. So how does Scott, and the rest of the world's songwriters and composers, make money from the use of their music?  Scott takes us behind the scenes of a rubber band and glue bizzare and unbelievable system that tracks what the world listens to then collects and pays out over $6 billion dollars annually for the right of Public Performance.  It might just be the most valuable music copyright you never heard of....

21Khz: The Art Of Money In Music  Jeff Price (Founder TuneCore, spinART Records and Audiam) and Ted Gerstein (Former Nightline Producer) explore the behind the scenes mechanisms of the music industry allowing artists, producers, record labels, songwriters and technology innovators to make money off music.

Learn why $30 billion dollars is generated off of music and whose pockets it ends up in.

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