ICE have launched ‘Licensr’ as a simple solution for licensing for small services to use themselves. ICE is a cross-European hub for music licensing made up of bodies like PRS for Music in the UK,…
Performing rights organisation GEMA have launched an emergency aid fund for songwriters left in the dark by Coronavirus. As performers, musicians and songwriters around the world face potential months out of pocket it is up…
As Facebook move into music legitimacy they are signing deals across the board to protect copyrights, now adding ICE to their friends. Following the past year’s controversy over music copyrights on Facebook the social media…
SoundCloud’s founder has revealed that they will no longer remove DJ mixes for copyright infringement after making deals with licensing groups. Eric Wahlforss, the founder of Soundcloud – the world’s biggest open community of music, announced…
After years of strict copyright rules YouTube have signed a deal that will allow Germany to access far more of YouTube’s giant selection of music. YouTube have signed a long-awaited deal with GEMA, a German…
A new music licensing body covering all of Europe have signed their first agreement with tech giant Google’s music streamer Google Play Music. ICE represent around 250,000 rights-holders across Europe and hope with this agreement…