SoundExchange Head John Simson on Streaming Music Streaming Music on Interactive Services (MySpace, FaceBook)

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John Simson
John Simson is head of SoundExchange, the US organization responsible for collecting royalties for music performed via non-terrestrial radio and distributing those royalties to the artists so featured. He is also an attorney and a former artist manager (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steve Forbert) who has long been involved in advocacy and legal matters within the music business as a whole.

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In a spirited discussion held at Loyola University, New Orleans, professor George Howard and SoundExchange head John Simson discuss why interactive services (that is, music players that allow you to select what song to play and when to start it, like MySpace or Facebook) do not fall under SoundExchange's umbrella, and how licenses are handled for music played on such services.

Shoot Date: April 2008

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