Songwriters to Start Getting a Lot More Money From Streaming Services

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced that songwriters will get a pay raise from streaming services for the next five years. Variety reports, songwriters' rate jumps from 10.5 percent of revenue to 15.1 percent, a 43.8 percent increase -- the largest such increase in CRB history. The pay raise is a result of a debate between the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and the music streaming services run by Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, and Pandora. There will also be a late fe...