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Demystifying Artist Advances: IRS Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC for Music Payouts
This guide will help you navigate IRS Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC for music payouts, ensuring you stay compliant and avoid costly mistakes.
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This guide offers advice on how to simplify the reporting process for your artists and build trust between you and them.
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Stay compliant with the IRS’s phased 1099-K reporting thresholds for 2024-2026.
How Do Royalty Calculators Work?
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Protect your organization from financial loss and reputational damage caused by account takeover. Learn how to mitigate this cyber threat.
What are Two-Sided Marketplaces? A Guide to These Engines of the Internet Economy.
Uncover the components, benefits, and challenges of two-sided marketplaces. Learn from real-world examples like Airbnb and Uber.
What is Functional Audio Content?
Non-music audio or “functional noise” has seen royalty rates cut recently, and it has to do with fraud, shifting streaming models, and AI.
Music Streaming Fraud: Challenges, Solutions, & Industry Insights
Want to better understand music streaming fraud and how the industry plans to combat it in 2024? You’re in the right place.
What Are “Superfans” & Why Are They the Talk of the Music Industry?
“Superfan” is a buzzword in the music industry. But what is a superfan, really? And what does superfan monetization actually look like?
So, How Exactly Do Streaming Services Calculate Royalties?
We break down how different DSP payout models actually work, how streaming services calculate their royalty payouts, & what’s recently changed.
Music Royalties Explained: Understanding IRS Taxation for Music Payouts
This guide for music business professionals breaks down the different types of music royalties and how they’re reported come tax season.
Print Music Royalties: A Guide for Music Business Professionals
This guide aims to help music business professionals looking to better understand how these royalties are calculated, paid out, and taxed.
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