{"id":5945,"date":"2016-04-04T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/universal-publishing-production-music-strikes-landmark-deal-with-sesac-to-bring-songwriters-more-revenue\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:16:18","slug":"universal-publishing-production-music-strikes-landmark-deal-with-sesac-to-bring-songwriters-more-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/universal-publishing-production-music-strikes-landmark-deal-with-sesac-to-bring-songwriters-more-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Publishing Production Music Strikes Landmark Deal With SESAC To Bring Songwriters More Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8d\/UniversalMusicPublishing_Logo.jpg\/220px-UniversalMusicPublishing_Logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"139\" \/><br \/>As part of Universal Music Publishing Group&#8217;s  ongoing effort to deliver greater value to songwriters, its production  music arm, Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM), announced today  a new agreement with SESAC to enhance UPPM songwriters&#8217; compensation.  <!--more-->  <br \/> The agreement, which is effective April 1, 2016, covers those production  music songs controlled by UPPM that were previously registered with  ASCAP for U.S. exploitation. It does not affect royalties collected  outside of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We&#8217;re proud that this agreement provides greater value to our  songwriters and pleased to expand our relationship with SESAC,&#8221; said  Gary Gross, Worldwide President of UPPM. &#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement reflects  our commitment to maximize writers&#8217; revenues and bring them as many  creative opportunities as we can,&#8221; Gross continued. &#8220;We will continue to  work on our writers&#8217; behalf, and note that our relationship with ASCAP  remains close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The agreement removes a specific universe of works from the ASCAP  repertory and does not affect a songwriter&#8217;s decision to continue  overall membership in ASCAP.<\/p>\n<p> For the covered production music songs, ASCAP will continue to pay  songwriters royalties through March 31, 2016, as well as for &#8220;licenses  in effect&#8221; through the expiration of those licenses. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: Universal Music<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Universal Music Publishing Group&#8217;s ongoing effort to deliver greater value to songwriters,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}