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Artists are compensated at an established royalty rate. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which established a royalty reform policy when it acquired Folkways Records in the late 1980s, pays royalties at rates that are, in most cases, more favorable than the royalty-reform rates that major labels instituted. Back to top.
