What The #&@$ Do You Do, Nicole?!
With offices and employees spread across the globe, sometimes it takes time to get to know everyone. In our series ‘What The #&@$ Do You Do?!’ (WTFDYD), The Orchard highlights Orchardites from all over the world to learn more about their role at The Or...
Frequently Asked Questions: YouTube Copyright Strikes
Copyright is serious business. As with any platform hosting user-generated content, YouTube provides content owners with a few tools to protect their intellectual property. One such tool is the ability to file a Copyright Takedown, allowing owners to remov...
A Beginner’s Guide To Performance Rights (Infographic)
At The Orchard, our performance rights team is here to clarify your understanding of rights management - working to help rights owners earn more, faster. We have created a beginner’s guide to performance rights - a visual that aims to simplify the answer t...
Maximize Revenue With These Rights Management Tips
If you haven’t already read our previous Performance Rights blog post, Don’t Get it Twisted: Musical Composition vs Sound Recording, please take a moment to do so now to better understand the foundation of performance rights. (more…)
SoundCloud Mixes Things Up
We recently covered SoundCloud's arrival to Instagram, which allows users to link SoundCloud tracks to their Instagram stories. This was an awesome enhancement, but the user-generated music service is not done there -- SoundCloud has unveiled another round...
What The #&@$ Do You Do, Ben?!?
Ben Wexler Head of Claims Administration, Legal Department Joined The Orchard on March 19, 2007 As a leader on The Orchard's legal team, what the #&@$ do you do Ben?!?! I handle all claims made against The Orchard’s distributed labels, acquired labe...