Songtrust is a global

digital rights management Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted work ...

platform which allows songwriters and artists to manage their

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and related rights. Based in New York, it is a division of

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Overview

Songtrust was founded by Downtown CEO Justin Kalifowitz and CSO Joe Conyers III. Launched in 2011, it enables creators at all levels to recover their royalties directly from more than 90 countries and 20,000 unique income sources worldwide. The company also provides royalty collection services for global distributors such as

CD Baby CD Baby, Inc. is an online distributor of independent music. The company was described as an "anti-label" by its parent company's Chief Operating Officer Tracy Maddux. The CD Baby music store was shut down in March 2020 with a statement that " ...

and

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. In January 2018, Molly Neuman, former drummer for

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band Bratmobile, joined Songtrust from her previous role as the first head of music for

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website

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. In October 2019 Molly Neuman was named President of Songtrust.

References

External links

Songtrust Website
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