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| Jul 23, 2026 | Concert Ticket Resale Cap Advances in Massachusetts: StubHub Fees Would Be Cut in Half | By Joshua Mitchell
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| Jul 16, 2026 | Ticketmaster Settlement Heads to Judge: Public Has Until Sept. 4 to Say It Falls Short | By John Bright
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| Nov 1, 2024 | Tidal's Troubled Waters: Dorsey's Layoffs and the Future of Music Streaming | In the turbulent sea of the music streaming industry, Tidal is facing yet another storm. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, has announced another round of layoffs at Tidal, the music service he acquired in 2021. This decision comes as no surpri... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | Jack Dorsey Tells Tidal Staff About Another Round of Mass Layoffs in Leaked Note: 'Much Smaller Team' The memo didn't specify how many people would be let go, but insiders estimate that about a quarter of staff, or 100 employees, could be affected. | For the second time in less than a year, employees at music streaming service Tidal will experience mass layoffs.
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of payment processing company Block, which acquired a majority stake in Tidal for $237 million in 2021, w... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | The head of tech at indie music publisher TuneCore credits the company's growth to its collaborative approach to building new products | TuneCore is an independent digital music distribution, publishing, and licensing service.
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| Jun 30, 2022 | Music distributor DistroKid expands into music video distribution with ‘DistroVid’ | Record labels used to be the one ticket into the music industry. Now, it’s easier than ever for struggling musicians to get their music and video content out there. DistroKid, an independent music distribution firm, launched its new music v... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Decentralizing Curation: How Web3 Startup, Catalog, Attracted Former Spotify And Twitch Music Curator | Catalog.Works Courtesy of Catalog |
| Feb 11, 2022 | Music tech companies in SEE: How is technology advancing the entertainment sector | Athens, Sofia, Bulgaria, Greece ~
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“Hey, Alexa, put on some jazz” has become the new way for listening to music in many homes. With the digitalization of daily habits, both artists or producers, as well as software developers, have ... |
| Dec 26, 2021 | «Сжатие по методу оригами»: сможет ли аудиокодек MQA изменить подходы к прослушиванию музыки | Формат позволяет получить близкое к студийному качество записи, но в гораздо меньшем размере. Некоторые считают, что MQA будут использовать по умолчанию стриминговые сервисы и цифровые музыкальные магазины. Однако с этим утверждением соглас... |
| Aug 15, 2018 | Google Home Offering Free Trials for Pandora Premium and 99 Cents for Deezer – Illustrates Bigger Picture Around Streaming on Smart Speakers | Google Home Offering Free Trials for Pandora Premium and 99 Cents for Deezer – Illustrates Bigger Picture Around Streaming on Smart Speakers
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| Apr 19, 2018 | Of Course The RIAA Would Find A Way To Screw Over The Public In 'Modernizing' Copyright | I haven’t had a chance to write much about the latest attempt to update copyright law in the US, under the title of the “Music Modernization Act,” but in part that was because Congress did something amazing: it came up with a decent solutio... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Can Blockchain Technology Challenge YouTube and Netflix? | Share
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| May 2, 2017 | Why the next evolution of AI will be a seamless methodology | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 20, 2017 | Spotify strikes new deal with indy giant Merlin ‘competitive’ with big labels | Spotify — the streaming music company with 50 million paying users — has been working on renegotiating licensing deals with labels over the last several months — a critical move to improve its revenues and margins en route to going public —... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Supreme Court Won't Hear Case About Copyright Protection Of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings | For many years now, we’ve been talking about the copyright questions surrounding pre-1972 sound recordings. There are a ton of ongoing cases about this and it may be a bit confusing to keep up with it all. In short, under old copyright law,... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | A SoundCloud sale would be bad for fans | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 20, 2016 | Spotify Buys Cord Project And Soundwave To Expand Messaging And Social Features | On the same day that streaming rival Deezer announced a new cash injection of €100 million, Spotify has confirmed two new acquisitions, Cord Project and Soundwave. The startups are based respectively in New York and Dublin and focus on soci... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Copyright Question: Does David Bowie Get The Copyright On Computer Generated Lyrics? | There have been a number of copyright-related discussions spurred by the unfortunate passing of David Bowie, but here’s one more that might make for an interesting law school exam. Matthew Braga, over at Vice’s Motherboard, has a really won... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Streams converge: Pandora snaps up Rdio | Pandora has announced plans to acquire its soon-to-be bankrupt rival Rdio.
The move will see the online radio provide acquire Rdio’s “key assets” for $US75 million, meaning it will be able to also offer on-demand music streaming and begin t... |
| Jun 26, 2015 | STHLM Tech Meetup: Startup scene is flourishing! | Jam-packed STHLM Tech Meetup with Atomico event brought Ngenic, MedUniverse, and Shipwallet on the stage. Who had the best pitch this Tuesday? NSB was there to find out
Yet another STHLM Tech Meetup is behind us. If anything, the event, wh... |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Pandora Is Out Of Tune With Songwriters | Derek Sivers Contributor
Derek Sivers is the founder of CD Baby , a musician and the author of the book, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur.
As Pandora shareholders convened their annual meeting this week, the stre... |
| Mar 22, 2015 | How music labels are trying to kill off Spotify’s unlimited free streaming | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 22, 2015 | How music labels are trying to kill off Spotify’s unlimited free streaming | As Taylor Swift goes, so goes just about everybody else.
Last fall, Taylor Swift shut out music-streaming services like Spotify from the release of her latest album. This week, it seems like the big labels are finally, if a little slowly, p... |
| Feb 4, 2015 | Tech and the Music Industry: the Evolution Continues | The music industry is evolving at a rapid pace and 2015 promises to see even more innovations. With streaming music taking over the primary way people get their music, the entire industry from artists to producers has to change and adapt, a... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Spotify cares more about an IPO than artists — and Taylor Swift cares about Taylor Swift. Here’s why. | Regardless of those truths, streaming will save the music industry and artists will soon make more money than ever before.
Daniel Ek is disingenuous when he claims that Spotify’s “reason for existence is to help fans find music and help art... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Spotify cares more about an IPO than artists — and Taylor Swift cares about Taylor Swift. Here’s why. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Regardless of those truths, streaming will save t... |
| Dec 15, 2014 | Bose is staffing up to launch new music streaming service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The audio hardware manufacturer Bose is about to become a media company, reports say, with the impending launch of its own music stream... |
| Dec 15, 2014 | Bose is staffing up to launch new music streaming service | The audio hardware manufacturer Bose is about to become a media company, reports say, with the impending launch of its own music streaming service.
Hypebot is reporting that Bose is moving “quickly” to build and launch its own “next generat... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | Taylor Swift opposes streaming as a “grand experiment,” songs remain on Rdio | Swift's now-empty Spotify profile, with 2 million followers. reader comments 395 with 169 posters participating
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| Sep 9, 2014 | RIAA Complaint Kills Grooveshark Chromecast Support | Two years ago, music streaming service Grooveshark suffered a setback after its app was pulled from Google’s Android store for the second time.
While Google cited Terms of Service violations, ongoing copyright-related issues with the world’... |
| Aug 7, 2014 | Twitch Begins Silencing Videos With Audible Magic: Making Everyone Worse Off, Because Copyright Law Sucks | As a whole bunch of people on my Twitter feed are letting me know, video game streaming company Twitch* (read disclosure below!) has announced that it has turned on Audible Magic to begin silencing “Video on Demand” videos that make use of ... |
| Mar 26, 2014 | Why Wu-Tang Will Release Just One Copy Of Its Secret Album | Somewhere on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco, inside a vault housed beneath the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, there sits an engraved silver-and-nickel box with the potential to spawn a shift in the way music is consumed and monetized. |
| Jan 21, 2014 | How Beats Music Could Save Streaming From A Premature Ice Age | Beats Music has joined the ranks of pioneering—and suffering—streaming-music pioneers such as Rdio, Spotify, Rhapsody, Deezer and Pandora, promising to mix things up by, well, literally mixing things up. Unlike some of its competitors, Beat... |
| Jan 7, 2014 | Google Accused Of ‘Double Standard’ Over Rap Genius Penalty Lift | Google is being accused of employing a double standard for its handling of web spam and enabling one penalized site to recover speedily from a manual action. While the search giant has certainly been accused of double standards by angry web... |
| Nov 11, 2013 | Now That’s How You Complain About YouTube Comments | In case you haven’t heard, Google has changed the commenting system on YouTube, moving toward a Google+-based approach. Users aren’t very happy about it. Even one of YouTube’s co-founders has apparently broken an eight-year silence to compl... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | For Netflix, convenience beats original content as a key driver (for now) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 1, 2013 | For Netflix, convenience beats original content as a key driver (for now) | Bruce Friend is president of media and entertainment at Vision Critical.
House of Cards may not be this year’s Emmy darling, but the show already made history and was my personal favorite new show of 2013. The political drama, along with Ar... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Rightsholders By End Of 2013 | Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users, says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013, and that it has already paid out $500 million so far as the “artist-fri... |
| May 25, 2013 | Hands-on: Use gMusic on iOS to listen to Google Play Music All Access | reader comments 12 with 12 posters participating
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| May 22, 2013 | Cool New Platform For Supporting Artists: Patreon, From Jack Conte | I’m obviously a big fan of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, but I’ve always argued that it’s just one of many models that content creators can use to succeed today. In fact, for a long time, I’ve felt that the biggest thing that was... |
| May 15, 2013 | Google set to enter the music streaming business | New service said to resemble Spotify, but will not offer free ad-supported version
The online music space is about to get even more crowded, if you can believe it.
Google is set to launch a new subcription music-streaming service at its I/O... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | 6 Million People Pay For Spotify – Is That Good Enough? | Who says freemium doesn’t work? For Spotify, the hybrid free/paid business model has reeled in 6 million paying subscribers out of its 24 million total listeners. Not bad. But as the music streaming space heats up, the company will face som... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Case Study: Band Embraces Grooveshark And Catapults Its Career | One of the things that we’ve found odd about the decade and a half history of the legacy entertainment industry seeking (often successfully) to shut down a variety of new platforms, is that if you actually looked at the artists who didn’t c... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | Google Play Offers Over 5M eBooks And More Than 18M Songs, One Year After Its Rebranding | Google has just announced via its official blog that Google Play is officially one year old today. The actual marketplace itself is older than that, with the Android Market debuting in 2008, but it has been a year since Google changed the s... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Why Google’s Rumored Spotify-Killer Makes Perfect Sense | Google is reportedly working on a music subscription service to compete with the likes of Spotify, MOG and Rdio. It might seem crazy to jump into a crowded market whose basic business model is already questionable – but for Google it makes ... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Why HMV UK was deaf to the sounds of change in music retail | For some, the recent collapse of UK music and DVD retailer HMV is another sign of a music industry undergoing an increasingly rapid and radical transformation to digital.
Although this is partly true, the dramatic situation that HMV finds i... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Metallica Makes Up With Sean Parker As Spotify Gets More Social | Lars Ulrich wants you know that he’s cool with Sean Parker. To show it, the Metallica drummer and anti-filesharing crusader didn’t just share a stage with the Napster cofounder this morning – he hugged him. The occasion? Metallica’s catalog... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Trent Reznor Talks To Techdirt About His Unconventional New Record Deal, And Why He Still Loves DIY | Contrary to what you may have been hearing lately, Trent Reznor still thinks there’s a big future in “do it yourself” efforts for musicians these days (and he expects to do it again at some point). And, no, he doesn’t think that bands need ... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Charm City number 5 best city for undergrads // Forget tech startups, local government // Facebook hits 1B active users [Links] | Baltimore ranks fifth on list of best cities for college students [Baltimore Business Journal]: “Charm City is No. 5 among major metropolitan areas with more than 2.5 million people on the “College Destinations Index” released Monday by the... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Big Name Musicians Threaten To Strike Over Parlophone Sell-Off After Discovering They're 'Just Assets' | An interesting story over at Hypebot highlights how some “big name” musicians are threatening to “strike” and withhold new albums if they’re not happy with how the sale of the label Parlophone goes down. As you may recall, with Universal Mu... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Once Again: Just Because You Can Go Indie, Doesn't Mean You Need To | For years and years we’ve argued that there still is a role for labels — even major labels, if they are able to do more reasonable deals that embrace new opportunities, rather than shun them. In fact, we’ve pointed to many different example... |
| Jul 26, 2012 | TheAudience: A Stealthy, Celeb-Driven Startup Co-founded By Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel & Oliver Luckett | If you had to recruit the ideal team to help you navigate the intersection of technology, media, and celebrity, it probably wouldn’t look much different from the partnership behind theAudience. The stealthy social media company, which has f... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk | One of the key talking points that we’ve heard from the “haters” of the new music business models is the claim that Spotify pays next-to-nothing to artists. This is really based on a few stories, taken totally out of context, concerning a f... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | A Business Model Failure Is Not A Moral Issue | We already wrote about David Lowery’s rant against a young girl for not paying enough for her music, noting that his whole focus seemed to be on pining for some mythical past that never existed, rather than dealing with market realities. So... |
| May 11, 2012 | Facebook testing whether you’ll pay to ensure friends see your status updates | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook is testing a feature in which users can ... |
| Apr 19, 2012 | Are New Streaming Royalty Rates A Way To Backdoor DRM Into Copyright Law? | We recently wrote about how different parts of the music industry — the RIAA, NMPA and DMA — had come to an agreement on new royalty rates, as well as designating royalties for “new classifications” of services. While the groups celebrated ... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | The Odd Future Approach: Give Away The Music, Sell Awesome Stuff | The BBC has a great short video feature looking at Odd Future, the massively popular (and equally controversial) rap collective, and their merchandise-focused approach to the music business. Odd Future has always been an interesting case st... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Spotify’s New Embeddable Play Button Lets Any Site Turn You On To Legal Tunes | Spotify wants to make it easier for anyone to legally soundtrack their websites, oh, and get links to its own download page plastered all over the Internet. So today it launches the embeddable Spotify Play Button for news sites that when cl... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | The Top Tech News (and Parties) From SXSW Music | As tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs nursed their hangovers and headed home after SXSW Interactive, there were still newsworthy launches, panels, and campaigns going on at SXSW Music. MOG hinted at its future revenue streams, Sean Parker p... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | How Big Music Companies Are Stealing Hundreds Of Millions In Royalties From Artists | It’s no secret that various major labels and big music organizations have a history of not paying artists what they’re owed under the law. We’ve covered plenty of examples of fancy “accounting” to avoid having to pay, such that even big sta... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | #BlackoutSOPA: How 87,000 People Taught Us About The Future of Online Activism | [Editor’s Note: The Stop Online Piracy Act, the House bill that wants to give content holders vast new powers to block web sites in the name of copyright protection, has been delayed despite an extensive lobbying campaign. The reason was wi... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | Cult Rapper Sharkula and Finding Your Audience | Photo by Leor Galil |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Just Because New Artist Platforms Aren't Minting Millionaires Doesn't Mean These Platforms Have Failed | Last week, the Tunecore blog, in a display of openness you won’t find at most major music sites or labels, made publicly available its sales numbers for July 2011 (one of the slower months for music sales) in order to point out just how man... |
| Nov 19, 2011 | Dog Bites Man; Pope Condemns Violence; Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It | I’m an author, but thankfully I’m not a member of the Authors Guild, that “not-for-profit American organization of and for authors”, who a few days ago issued a statement that first lauded publishers for not signing on to Amazon’s new Kindl... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | As It Prepares to Raise Cache, Turntable.fm Spinning A Million Tracks Per Day | Internet rock stars
Silicon Alley is buzzing for tonight’s fashionable tech fete, the runway party to Raise Cache for HackNY. The DJs for tonight’s event will rocking the house via Turntable.fm, which bestowed special avatars on Fred Wilson... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | How Sirius' Move Towards 'Direct Licensing' Is Bad For Artists | When people like myself hear the term “direct” being used in relation to artists and their fans, it often conveys a better deal is being struck for the artist(s) in question. Unfortunately, Sirius’ desire to ditch SoundExchange and strike “... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Myspace to announce strategy at Advertising Week | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Specific Media, the new owner of social networkin... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Myspace to announce strategy at Advertising Week | Specific Media, the new owner of social networking site Myspace has shifted gears regarding an announcement of the site’s future.
After purchasing Myspace in June for about $35 million, the company announced a mid-August press conference wi... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Labels Dropping Out Of Spotify Are Totally Missing The Point | We recently reposted a blog post by the indie band Uniform Motion discussing how much money they make from various music platforms. A bunch of other blogs reported on it too and it created some misguided controversy. First, however, in our ... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Myspace delays relaunch event, new design coming next month | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The once popular social network Myspace has scrap... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Myspace delays relaunch event, new design coming next month | The once popular social network Myspace has scraped plans for its summer press event to show off the revamped music-focused version of the site.
The purpose of the event was to show that the social network still had life in it yet, despite ... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | New and Old RIAA CEOs Agree: “We’re Beating Piracy” | “It’s my time to say so long. I will miss you guys,” wrote outgoing RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol in his farewell email to colleagues.
“It’s a bittersweet moment for me. On the one hand, I’m thrilled about my new gig. I’ll be running the leading t... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Record Label Says That Pulling Music From Spotify 'Protects Artists' | We’ve definitely seen plenty of confusion from record labels over the value of Spotify and similar services. But, a heavy metal/hardcore label, Century Media (which runs a variety of smaller labels: InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain’t no ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Blink-182 Rewards Fans Who Uploaded Unauthorized Clips On YouTube | Nearly two years ago, we wrote about an interview with Tom Delonge from the band Blink-182, in which his views on the music industry seemed very closely aligned to exactly what we’ve been saying for years: |
| Jul 19, 2011 | Can Innovation Through Business 'Solve' Issues That Legal Repression Can't? | If you follow music industry news, you probably didn’t miss Spotify’s launch in the US last week. Prior to this launch, a Swedish music executive was interviewed about what to expect when Spotify launches in the US. One part of the intervie... |
| Jul 17, 2011 | ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay | During May the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of IFPI announced that they had filed a lawsuit at the District Court in Helsinki.
The latest in a growing line of lawsuits against service providers... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Warner Music Group Employee Charged With Stealing $700,000 | What is it with recording industry folks getting charged with actual theft these days? First we had folks from the Spanish music collection society SGAE charged with a complicated scheme to divert money from artists to themselves. Then we h... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Did Universal Music Declare 50 Cent's Own Website Is A Pirate Site? | You may have heard last week that hip hop star 50 Cent got into a public war of words with his record label, Interscope (a division of Universal Music Group), concerning his upcoming album. 50 Cent claimed that differences would mean that t... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | Indie Label Opts Out Of Apple iCloud Music Match; Says It's An Insult That Tramples Copyright | Via Hypebot, we learn of an indie label called Numero that apparently has decided that it wants no part of Apple’s iCloud Music Match offering: |
| Jun 14, 2011 | As Pandora Goes Public, How Come No One Is Pointing Out That It Misled The Press About Being Profitable? | We mentioned this earlier, but with Pandora scheduled to go public this week, it seems to bear repeating. Over the last couple of years, Pandora, which is a service that I’m a fan of, has repeatedly told the press that it is profitable. You... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Music Service Simfy Files Complaint Over Apple Blocking Its iPad App | We’ve talked in the past about Apple’s quite arbitrary approval process for apps via its walled garden, noting at times that Apple just likes to keep out competitive apps. At least one company is questioning whether or not this is legal. Vi... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Apple's Music Match: Innovation By (Record Label) Committee | Well, pretty much everything in the announcement of Apple’s iCloud “Music Match” music service was leaked or predicted prior to the announcement today, so there’s not much that seems particularly surprising. Basically, for $25/year, you can... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Lady Gaga Says $0.99 Albums Make Sense, Especially For Digital | You may have heard that Amazon did a deal recently with Lady Gaga, in which it offered up her entire new album for $0.99. While Amazon did have some technical difficulties in making this work, it resulted in some mindless criticism, in plac... |
| May 23, 2011 | RIAA Two Top Execs Made $4.8 Million In 2009; How Many Musicians Could That Have Funded? | As a whole bunch of folks have been sending over, RIAA President Cary Sherman made $3.2 million in 2009 — the highest paid “non-CEO staffer who is a federally registered lobbyist in a tax-exempt organization” by more than double. Meanwhile ... |
| May 19, 2011 | Major Labels Shamed Into Promising To Give Some Of $105 Million Limewire Settlement To Artists | After Limewire settled with the major labels last week, many of us questioned how much of that money would go to actual artists. Many people, quite reasonably, pointed to a quote from a few years ago from the RIAA’s Jonathan Lamy saying, “A... |
| May 4, 2011 | EMI Dumps ASCAP For Digital Licensing | Well, this is interesting. When Guy Hands had bought EMI years back, there was hope that, as an outsider, he might come in and shake things up in a good way. That didn’t happen, and after a massive flop, Hands lost EMI to Citigroup earlier ... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | You Shouldn't Need An Excuse For Having Fun & Creating Something | There’s a music conference going on in Boston tomorrow called Rethink Music, which has received some attention because a group of the content creators attending — Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Damian Kulash and Neil Gaiman — have decided to spe... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Prince Claims When Someone Covers Your Song, The Original No Longer Exists | Ah, Prince. The artist, who is notoriously controlling concerning his own music, has apparently decided that the latest evil in the world is cover songs and the compulsory licenses that make them possible. As you may or may not know, it’s l... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music | What if someone came up with a revolutionary new product to turn piracy into profit that didn’t hurt consumers and actually embraced pirates? What if that system thrived on the very existence of illicit music being made available from torre... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Amazon Insists No Licenses Needed For Cloud Player, Google Thinking Of Skipping Licenses As Well | When Amazon launched its cloud music streaming service a few weeks ago, the big question concerned whether or not it needed licenses to do so. It certainly did not have them. And there’s a strong argument that it doesn’t need them. After al... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Amazon Launches Digital Music Locker, Even As Legality Is Still In Question | Well, this could get interesting. While there are already a few digital music lockers on the market — including services like MP3Tunes and MeCanto — there’s been plenty of talk over the past few months about the “big players” entering the m... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Study Shows That Piracy Has Not Resulted In A Decrease Of Quality New Music | One of the key tenets of those who support stronger copyright law and stronger copyright enforcement is the idea that it is a necessary incentive for a great deal of creative output. We regularly hear claims of how creative output would dro... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Forget Infringement, Major Labels Should Be Worrying About Having To Pay Much Higher Royalties On Downloads | For a few years now, we’ve followed the lawsuit between Eminem and Universal Music concerning digital royalties. The basics are that the record labels offer incredibly low royalties on sales of music media, such as CDs. However, when it cam... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | New Music Locker Startup Looks More Like Sucker's Bet To Transfer Cash From Investors To Music Labels | A few weeks ago, at the Digital Music Forum East event, right before I went on stage to interview Gary Shapiro from CEA, there was a presentation from a new music startup I’d never heard of, called Beyond Oblivion. The presentation (which i... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Music Is Not A Product, And You'll Never Adapt If You Think It Is | About a decade ago, I wrote a long analysis of why digital “goods” were really a “service,” not a “product,” and explained how this was the key to understanding modern business models. I had submitted it to a large publication, who came bac... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Stop Thinking That Tech & Content Are Fighting Each Other | The following is a guest post from Martin Thornkvist, who both runs a Swedish indie record label, and works for Media Evolution — an organization designed to help its various members learn about and embrace new media innovation opportunitie... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Yet Another Company Says It Can Help You Sell Used MP3s | We’ve seen a few websites pop up over the years claiming to create marketplaces to “sell” used MP3s. The RIAA and the major record labels continue to insist such things are illegal. However, yet another one, called ReDigi is apparently set ... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | How Come No One Calls Out Pandora For False Promise Of Profitability? | I’m a Pandora fan. I like the service and use it sometimes. However, I remember being surprised about a year ago when the company claimed that it was profitable. It had celebrated settling its royalty fight with the RIAA/SoundExchange by sa... |
