Audiam founder Jeff Price has launched the International Association of Music Publishers (IAMP), to help songwriters and publishers claim royalties for tracks played digitally.

In a guest blog post for American Songwriter, Price attributed a lack of payments to music publishers to poor infrastructure and third party outsourcing by streaming services.

He added: “This problem – combined with the existence of a US compulsory license, bad meta-data, advances to major publishers, lack of accountability, confusing royalty rates and no ability ...