ASCAP Collections Rose to $1.3 Billion in 2020, With Huge Streaming Gains Offsetting Business Closures
ASCAP Collections Rose to $1.3 Billion in 2020, With Huge Streaming Gains Offsetting Business Closures
The PRO saw streaming revenues rise by 28%, favorably tipping the scale despite a 30% decrease in income from venues, restaurants and other brick-and-mortar businesses.
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The pandemic had little adverse affect on music publishing collections in 2020, judging from a report released Tuesday morning by ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) that showed the performing rights organization collected $1.327 billion for songwriters and publishers during the year a jump of $53 million from 2019.
GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee attacked Vanita Gupta, who was nominated for associate attorney general, at her confirmation hearing, seeking to paint her as an extremist, even as she touted bipartisan support from police unions and conservative figures.
Gupta expressed regret for some of her comments during the Trump era and pointed to her record in bringing together ideological rivals when she led the DOJ s Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration.
ADVERTISEMENT I regret the harsh rhetoric I have used at times in the last several years, she told the committee. I think perhaps the rhetoric has gotten harsh over the past several years and I have fallen prey to it.
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Sameer Rao | March 7, 2021, 8:02 PM EST A pair of bills before the Maryland General Assembly could, if passed, bring the state s four storied, historically Black colleges and universities a historic $577 million dollars that supporters have argued will address long-standing and racist inequities in the state s higher education funding.
This redress would not have happened without a similarly unprecedented decade-plus of federal litigation, nor without the tenacious pro bono efforts, both in and out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, of Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Michael D. Jones.
Michael D. Jones guided a legal battle that is on track to bring Maryland s historically Black colleges and universities hundreds of millions of dollars in institutional funding.
Biden s picks for key Justice Department posts face confirmation scrutiny
08 Mar 2021 - 13:56
File photo: President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Vanita Gupta speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S. June 10, 2020. Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
By Sarah N. Lynch | Reuters
Washington: In her first big civil rights case after law school, Vanita Gupta two decades ago challenged the wrongful drug convictions of dozens of Black residents of the Texas Panhandle city of Tulia, all of which hinged on faulty testimony by an undercover police officer with a checkered past.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) today announced the formation of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition, an organization that will lead the NBA family’s collective efforts to advance equality and social justice.