The future of songwriting: How streaming is changing everything we know about making music

Outside my songwriting classroom at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the industry is in full disruption mode. This semester alone, publishers continued to weigh up new methods to take back control of their copyrights; a controversial judgment regarding "Blurred Lines" spurred debate on what copyright even is; Congress heard arguments regarding how artists and songwriters are getting paid; Pandora and Spotify and Grooveshark and Rdio all made headlines; Tidal launch