Almost two months to the day after it announced an important partnership with Apple Music, digital distributor Dubset Media Holdings is announcing another deal, one that's big news for music publishers and songwriters with smaller industry footprints.
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and Dubset have reached a deal that will allow the NMPA's independent members, both publishing companies and songwriters, to take part in a new streaming "sub-economy" that only recently became technologically feasible. This new revenue source is through derivative works, or pieces of music that are wholly or partially based on others' creations, like DJ mixes and remixes. Through its MixBANK, Dubset cross-sections these creations and identifies their constituent parts (a vocal line here, one-half of an entire song there), determines the appropriate royalty splits, then services them to its clients, like Apple Music.
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