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Is Pandora Violating Your Privacy? A Lawsuit and Investigation Say Yes...
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Digital Music News
Is Pandora crossing the line with your personal data? That's the accusation of a recent lawsuit against Apple, Pandora, and a number of other top apps, and there's more to this than you might expect. The suit, which currently seeks class action status, alleges that various iPhone and iPad apps are slyly collecting and selling a range of stats and personal data to ad networks. At first blush, this looks like another privacy alarm, though judgefor yourself. The filing points ...
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The FCC Just Issued Its Neutrality Guidelines. so What Does This Mean for Music?
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Digital Music News
“On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter's night for internet freedom." The Federal Communications Commission has officially dipped its toes into the net neutrality swamp, and taken a limited step towards open access. But this is mostly being viewed as a move towards attempted ...
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Soundexchange Posts Improved 2009 Royalties, 2010 Estimates
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Digital collection agency SoundExchange has released 2009 financials showing $155.5 million distributed to artists and copyright holders from $204 million collected from streaming services including internet and satellite radio, and cable TV music services. That's a 20% increase in collections and a 55% increase in payments over 2008. SoundExchange says the increase comes from the jump in streaming services, 5,335 new artists registering, and data clean-up resulting in improved processing. Artists saw royalty checks grow an average of 57% in ...
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The Great Mirage of Music Ownership
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iTunes and Amazon have spent lots of money trying to convince the next generation of music buyers that owning a physical box set is the same thing as having MP3s of it on their iPod. Even after all these years, most fans are still less than persuaded. Steve Jobs will proudly tell you that an MP3 is worth exactly ninety-nine cents. A teen living in the middle of nowhere, downloading music off the web, might tell you that an MP3 ...
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ASCAP Links with Rightsflow
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ASCAP and RightsFlow have partnered to offer mechanical licensing services to ASCAP's nearly 400,000 songwriter, composer and publisher members through RightsFlow's Limelight online utility. ASCAP members will receive a 25% discount on Limelight service fees. Limelight provides artists and record labels with services to clear cover songs and secure mechanical licenses for physical releases, digital downloads, ringtones and interactive streaming both domestically and internationally. Current U.S. statutory mechanical rates for physical units or permanent downloads are 9.1¢ for songs five ...
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IRIS and A2IM Launch Another Anti-Piracy Campaign
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IRIS Distribution has launched its “I Share Everything But My Music" T-Shirt campaign. Their goal is to promote music ownership and support for the musicians that create it. The logo on the T-Shirt aims to educate kids about music piracy without being heavy-handed. It's a difficult message to communicate. If the point is too aggressive, kids may ignore it. Likewise, if the point is too subtle, it will get lost among them. Yo Gabba Gabba illustrator and animator Stephan Britt ...
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Piracy Benefits Everyone Except the Content Owner. Can Canada Fix This?
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Digital Music News
“The vast majority of music consumed on the internet—over 90 percent—is pirated. When music is pirated, the artists don't get paid, but the ISPs, search engines, advertisers, websites and device manufacturers do. They all profit from enabling this pirate activity, while denying any responsibility to pay the people who create the music in the first place. Not only will Bill C-32 fail to fix this, it will actually ensure that these companies never have to pay."
Michael McCarty, President of ...
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Do ISPs Have a "Duty" to Stamp out Piracy?
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Helienne Lindvall at the Guardian asserts that ISPs must play their part in stamping out piracy. Her argument is that despite the convictions against the Pirate Bay, the site is still very much online. Likewise, contrary to the efforts of the courts to shutdown LimeWire, a few vigilant souls have restored the client. To her, this signals the need for ISPs to become more actively involved in enforcing piracy convictions. Often, this argument grows into a back and forth about ...
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