Premier Muzik calls for international neighbouring rights reform

Tom Pakinkis

The head of royalty collection and administration firm Premier Muzik has accused major labels and societies in certain territories of preventing neighbouring rights payments from reaching performers.

Neighbouring rights royalties for a track are, in theory, supposed to be split equally between the master owner and performers on a certain song. But Premier Muzik CEO Gino Olivieri (pictured) says that this is too often not the case.  

“The reality of it is that, since  neighbouring rights royalties are probably ...



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