Facebook is offering song rights-holders “hundreds of millions of dollars” so it can legally use songs in videos uploaded to the service. The arrangement, negotiated over the past few months, according to Bloomberg, which was the first to report the news, seeks to avoid frustrating users by having to remove videos they upload, as well […]
Rickey Minor has won the Emmy for music direction for the epic ABC special Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America, with rapper Common taking the trophy for music and lyrics for the song “Letter to the Free” at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night. In an extremely competitive category, […]
The SCL Emmy Nominees Reception drew nearly 200 TV music heavyweights to a Hollywood terrace Friday on the eve of the Annual Creative Arts Emmys and at the start of a week of celebration leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards Sept. 16 at the Microsoft Theater. The event, sponsored by the Society of […]
Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe have found a new way to showcase their musical genius, by selecting the winners of the “Show Us Your Musical Genius” challenge. The contest, presented by NatGeo, Fox 21, Milan Records and hosted by indi.com, had participatants submit their own interpretations of Zimmer and Balfe’s Emmy-nominated main title theme for the […]
