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David Lowery Reminds Musicians To File For Share Of $10M Rhapsody, Napster Songwriter Settlement
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David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker led a class action lawsuit against Rhapsody (aka Napster). The case, which alleged the streamer had unlawfully reproduced and distributed copyrighted compositions, has preliminarily settled, and musicians may be entitled to compensation. “I’m really proud of my advocacy on behalf of independent musicians. (No pun intended) It's been a David vs. Goliath kind of story," Lowery tells Hypebot. “The good news is the heavy lifting is done. We’ve been able to settle ...
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Shutting File Sharing Sites Could Harm Artists, Industry [STUDY]
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While the music industry has long flailed against online copyright infringement in sometimes harmful and often ineffective ways, a new study is out suggesting that shutting down the file sharing sites which are so often havens for this type of infringement would hurt new artists and the industry as a whole. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt The evolution of the music industry's response to the fact that copyright infringement exists on the internet has been both plodding and ...
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Roy Orbison Heirs File Lawsuit To Stop Concert Hologram Project
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Heirs of Roy Orbison have filed a lawsuit to block what they say is a shakedown by a hologram company owned by Greek billionaire Alkiviades David. New technology often leads to legal battles, and with music related holograms, augmented reality and virtual reality all gaining traction, we expect a plethora of lawsuits over who controls rights that barely existed a decade ago. The sons of late rock ‘n’ roll icon Roy Orbison filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court ...
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CEO Chris Kantrowitz on Creating the Future of Music Storage and File Transfer at Gobbler
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Cloud storage is a big topic these days but specialized services for musicians are still coming into their own. Last week I spoke with Gobbler CEO and Founder Chris Kantrowitz about his unique cloud storage, syncing and transfer platform for musicians and others who work with digital audio. From his early days as a teen entrepreneur to the launch of Gobbler, his fifth startup, Kantrowitz combines a unique founder's tale with the experience of one who's faced the problems he's ...
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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-Sharers [Study]
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While intuitively it makes sense to believe that music pirates are largely out to hoard large collections of free content, a comprehensive new study reveals that file-sharers in the United States tend to purchase more music than non-file-sharers. The findings come from a new report entitled “Copy Culture in the USA and Germany," conducted by The American Assembly - a non-partisan public affairs forum affiliated with Columbia University. Their findings indicate that file-sharers actually purchase 30% more music, contradicting major ...
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File Sharing Research Supports Adaptation as Best Industry Reponse
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A recent study from a researcher at NC State University in Raleigh found connections between increased filesharing of leaked albums and increased sales of those albums. The findings were a bit limited but it correlates nicely with an overview of filesharing research conducted by Drew Wilson at ZeroPaid. Wilson took a close look at nineteen academic studies of filesharing that, taken as a whole, suggest industry adaptation may be the most productive path forward. Response to research from NC State ...
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Gobbler Gets $1.75 Million to Expand Musician File Management Solution
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LA based Gobbler, a service that helps musicians backup, organize and transfer large audio and video files, has received $1.75 million to expand the service. Investors in the round include ff Venture Capital, Black Ocean Group, Mindjolt CTO Aber Whitcomb, Facebook VP Dan Rose, ex-Googler Jermey Wenokur, Science's Mike Jones, and the founder of LowerMyBills Matt Coffin. Gobbler also raised $1.3 million from Dave Goldberg, Sky Dayton and Tim Wyatt in January of last year. The new funds will be ...
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On Spotify, File-Sharing and Incomplete Statistics
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Since Spotify finally launched in the US, the discussion has reignited about what the benefits of it are for musicians. One recent conversation has involved people quoting diametrically opposite statistics about the influence of Spotify on file-sharing in Sweden. Some people quoting a stat that says file-sharing has dropped as Spotify has rolled out, and others saying that there's more file sharing with Spotify... The problem with both statistics is that there's no binary relationship between Spotify and file-sharing, and ...
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File-Sharing is Still Surging. then Again, so is Everything Else...
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Digital Music News
Maybe the boom-boom days of file-sharing increases are over, but swapping volumes are still gaining in the double-digits. Then again, so is everything else, including on-demand video and audio, illegal locker sharing, and for that matter, mobile media consumption. In fact, on-demand video is now beating file-sharing growth volumes, according to Cisco's just-published Visual Networking Index (VNI). This is the latest attempt to measure the dizzying surgeof internet and mobile traffic, and the broader numbers are staggering. Cisco says that ...
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Interview: SAC President Eddie Schwartz on Licensing File-Sharers
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We All Make Music
Earlier this week, we posted a link to a proposal by the Songwriters Association of Canada, a non-profit advocacy group that represents the interests of songwriters. The proposal, which essentially provides a model that would make money for rights holders off of file-sharing, has been called an attempt at “control" by P2Pnet and looked at skeptically elsewhere, so we sat down with SAC President Eddie Schwartz to discuss their proposal in greater detail. Our conversation has been edited for content ...
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