How iTunes Match Works for Copyright Holders

post from Daring Fireball on 08 February 2012 06:03:50 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jeff Price got his first iTunes Match royalty check, and he’s happy:

A person has a song on her computer hard drive. She clicks on thesong and plays it. No one is getting paid. The same person paysiTunes $25 for iMatch. She now clicks on the same song and playsit through her iMatch service. Copyright holders get paid.
Same action, same song, one makes money for the copyright holder,and one does not. This is found money that the copyright holderswould never have gotten otherwise.

I wasn’t really sure before how artists would get paid for iTunes Match.

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http://blog.tunecore.com/2012/02/apple-imatch-the-first-royalties-are-in.html