Whois & Analysis for soundexchange.com

SoundExchange is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects and distributes royalties on the behalf of sound recording copyright owners (SRCOs — record labels, generally) and featured artists for non-interactive digital transmissions, including satellite, Internet radio, and cable television music channels.

In addition to music, SoundExchange also collects royalties for comedy and spoken word recordings.

A performance rights organisation (PRO), also known as a performing rights society, provides intermediary functions, particularly collection of royalties, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly in locations such as shopping and dining venues.

Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer private performance rights.

PROs usually only collect royalties when use of a work is incidental to an organisation's purpose.

Royalties for works essential to an organisation's purpose, such as theaters and radio, are usually negotiated directly with the rights holder.

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent creators.

Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who create new songs and musical pieces; the singers, musicians, conductors and bandleaders who perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music and/or sheet music (e.g., music publishers, music producers, recording studios, engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores, performance rights organizations); and those that help organize and present live music performances (sound engineers, booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew).

Digital Performance is a very wide category filled with a range of productions, it is a generic performance but with an extra element of incorporating and integrating computer technologies and techniques into the production.

You can incorporate multimedia into any type of performance whether it is live on a theatre stage or in the street.

Anything as small as video recordings or a visual image classes the production as multimedia and therefore a digital performance.

When the key role in a performance is the computer technologies rather than it being an additional role is when it is classed as a digital performance.

This can be as little as projections on a screen in front of a live audience to creating and devising a performance in an online environment to using animation and sensing software’s.