Pangaea Media & Music

07/02/2023

Cultural workers need to eat too!

Celebrating the extension of copyright term in Canada, and debunking ridiculous objections.

07/01/2023

Copyright News: Canada has now extended copyright protection for literary works including music from "life of the artist" plus 50 years to 70 years. So this means that a musical composition such as a song now matches the length of copyright protection given to a sound recording which is also 70 years.

Last week, Canada made changes to its copyright laws, meaning books, films, songs and other works will now enter the public domain here 70 years after the death of the creator, up from the previous 50 years.

19/11/2022

Women Rappers Rock a Palestinian Refugee Camp in More Ways Than One

Because Ettijah’s music focuses on the struggle against the occupation, the group has won the approval of ordinary Palestinians.

In the documentary, Shaheen discusses this. “From the day we were born, we’ve never understood what it is to be free, because we were born under an occupation. The first thing a child who grows up in a refugee camp learns is not to be afraid,” she says.

“Without anyone having to explain it, he knows that there’s no room to fear the Israeli soldiers who can enter any house they choose, or the sounds of gunfire. That’s just a part of our lives in the camp, so it’s important to make our voices heard through our music.”

As Abu Laban sees it, Ettijah has been a huge success and symbolizes the social changes in the refugee camp. “Deheisheh is different from other refugee camps – it has a population of educated people who grew up in the late '70s, when Palestinian refugees began to realize that education is the only key to success, the only way to break out of the camp and integrate into Palestinian society,” she said.

“Even though life in the camp entails a lot of problems, like a lack of services, fragile infrastructure, water shortages and crowding, there’s an art scene. People from outside the camp come for music, art, creativity and dabke folk-dance workshops. Every year there’s a festival for films on refugee life.”

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11/09/2022

PUBLISHER NEWS: Good news for our international royalty collection. Glad to have Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) on our side and working the field.

IMPEL CEO Sarah Williams has said that a new deal with SX Works and the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) will give “valuable new options” to independent publishers. Here's the full story...

02/07/2022

Finally! Good news for songwriters and music publishers. Sort of.
"Songwriters, rejoice: Spotify appeal FAILS to stop composers getting improved 15.1% streaming royalty rate in the US"

Bottom line: The streaming services are going to have to fork over a pile of cash to publishers and songwriters…

08/02/2022

A very worthy read. The Economics of Spotify.

Spotify’s recent Joe Rogan controversy has also deepened a rift between the platform and artists over pay.

25/01/2022

A worthwhile read.

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

31/03/2021

A number of songwriters in the US have formally backed a new campaign that has been gaining momentum online over the last week and which seeks to stop famous artists from grabbing a cut of the copyright in songs that they help make famous but don’t actually co-write. The songwriters speaking out a...