Artists Press for Their Share

As revenue from music-streaming grows, musicians are starting to shift their focus from their initial gripe (about how it pays a fraction of a cent per stream) to a tougher question: how their own record companies and publishers should be divvying up payments. There is little agreement on how much to share with artists out of the revenue that labels get, especially when labels sometimes get money above actual royalties, as rights agreements often call for minimum guarantees.