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New Mike Masnick Report Focuses on Europe
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Full Midem 2013 coverage by Stuart Dredge of Music Ally. In January 2012, Techdirt founder Mike Masnick published a report called The Sky Is Rising, a survey of the global entertainment industry that took a notably positive approach to growth in the last decade. Now Masnick and co-author Michael Ho have published a new report drilling more deeply into six European countries: the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain. It's been released by the Computer & Communication Industry Association ...
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3D Printing of Vinyl Records Not yet a Threat to Copyright Holders
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By Mike Masnick, this first appeared on Techdirt. We've been predicting for a while now that 3D printing is an area of disruption that is going to lead to legal disputes. Our expectations were that as tangible goods makers were disrupted in the same manner as content producers, it was only a matter of time. But what if 3D printing continued to disrupt content producers as well? Hephaestus points us to a story about how Amanda Ghassaei, from Instructables, is experimenting ...
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5 Top Emerging Music Tech Trends for 2013
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After a busy 2012, music tech companies across the board are set for a big 2013. Streaming music companies will engage in further struggle while tech usage trends affect how music is consumed. I've gathered 5 emerging music tech trends as examples of where things are headed in 2013. Some things we know: Music services like Spotify and Pandora will continue a war of attrition and soak up as many investor dollars as they are able. The ongoing merger of ...
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Music Ally's 2013 Survival Panel Looks to the Future of the Music Industry
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Music Ally held an end of year gathering discussing what's ahead for the UK music industry in 2013. The gathering included a panel discussion with individuals from such companies and organizations as Universal Music, the Featured Artists Coalition and Seatwave representing multiple sectors of the industry. They shared a variety of insights into the days ahead. Music Ally's 2013: A Survival Guide included: “Francis Keeling, Universal Music's global head of digital business; Crispin Hunt, co-CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition; ...
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Despite Free Streaming, Music Remains Popular Holiday Gift [study]
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Despite the rising popularity of Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody and other options for streaming music, digital music downloads and CD's continue to be a popular gift choice, according to an NPD Group study. This year 12 percent of U.S. consumers reported that music would be on their holiday gift lists. Music gift buyers also intend to increase their spending on music by 18% over last year. That's the largest spending increase among all the gift categories that the survey tracks. 36% ...
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Data Science and the Music Industry: What Social Media Has to Do with Record Sales
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Guest post by Liv Buli and Victor Hu for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Buli and Hu work for Next Big Sound, a music analytics company. Twenty years ago, as a music fan, you would hear a song you enjoyed on the radio, head to the record store to buy the album and wait until the band came to town to attend a concert. The music industry was based on a straightforward consumption model. In this online day and age ...
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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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"Data is the New Hustle" - Is the Music Business Getting Any Fairer?
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During last Tuesday's SF MusicTech Summit, I had the privilege of moderating a panel alongside several top minds within music and technology, where a short, yet powerful quote was said that resonated deeply with myself and several members of the audience. “Data is the new hustle," pronounced BitTorrent's Executive Director of Marketing Matt Mason. The traditional music business has never been rational (as Incubus manager Steve Rennie pointed out), nor has it ever been easy or straightforward. However, Mason points ...
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