01/18/2019

CD BABY ARTISTS EARNED OVER $100 MILLION IN 2018 US-based CD Baby, which started as an online CD store in 1998, now represents over 750,000 recording artists, 170,000 songwriters, and over 9m tracks across 800+ genres. In a recent interview, CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux revealed that his company’s 2018 artist earnings had topped $100m. That’s up at least $20m on the previous year, when it distributed around $80m in 2017. And while Maddux explained that CD Baby doesn’t disclose certain precise

01/04/2019

January 1, 2019 is Public Domain Day. Works published in 1923 are now released of their copyright, meaning anyone can republish or recreate them for free. Jay LeVert On January 1, 2019, there was even more to celebrate than the start of a new year. This day saw many published works enter the US public domain for the first time. Literature, music, movies, and more that were created in 1923 are now available for anyone to republish and use in other projects—without asking permission or paying

10/12/2018

News from the IRS on Tax Reform: IRS to highlight tax reform changes affecting small businesses; Small business owners, self-employed should plan now for new changes WASHINGTON — With just a few months left in tax year 2018, the Internal Revenue Service today urges small business owners to learn about how the new tax law changes may affect them. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in December 2017, made tax law changes that will affect virtually every business and individual in 2018 and the