Music Coalition Wants to Rewrite Rules of Music Business

As revenues from sales of traditional media have plunged, the music business has been looking for alternate ways of making money from its products, including a variety of subscription services, ad-supported streams, and blanket licenses. The focus of these efforts has largely been on how to ensure that revenue gets collected by the industry in general instead of disappearing into the black hole of piracy, but there’s a related issue that doesn’t receive as much attention: how that money gets distributed once it’s collected.

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