Category: publishing

Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games

Post author By Randall
Post date June 2, 2020
Categories In 3d realms, activision blizzard, apogee software, devolver digital, epic games, epic games store, feature, Gaming, id software, indie, Microsoft, mike wilson, publishing, scott miller, shareware, steam, take-two interactive, Tech, tim sweeney, valve, Video Games

[ad_1] Present May 4th marked the 20th anniversary of GodGames’ acquisition by Take-Two. Wilson, Miller and Sweeney have all trod their own paths in the video game industry, and they’re all still active today. They started out in the undefined, pre-internet, post-shareware fog of the early 1990s, where they learned plenty about large-scale business and […]

Spotify claims it ‘overpaid’ songwriters and wants its money back

Post author By Randall
Post date June 21, 2019
Categories In av, business, copyright, copyright royalty board, Entertainment, publishing, royalties, royalty, royalty payments, songwriters, spotify, streaming, Tech

[ad_1] The entire issue stems from a decision made by the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) that would mandate higher payouts for streaming content. The increase, which would affect services like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and others, would raise royalties by 43.8 percent over the next five years. Spotify — which reportedly pays out $0.006 […]