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Abbey Road Graduate CloudBounce Closes $250K Seed Round
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Abbey Road Red Incubator graduate CloudBounce, an instant digital audio mastering service, has raised a $250,000 seed round. Investors in this round include UK-based VC Ascension Ventures, and a group of Finnish business angels. CloudBounce offers instant feedback on an audio track using AI. The (artificially) intelligent machine, unlike Shazam or Echo, makes processing decisions based on context and to deliver the most relevant mastering. For example, mastering Pucci’s Tosca would require very different enhancing to Black Sabbath’s War Pigs). ...
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Music Streaming's New Playlist Economy
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With the advent of streaming, playlists have risen to become many consumer's default interface for listening to music, something which has some serious implications both for the music business and music itself. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog Playlists have become the default for listening to both new and unfamiliar music. Instead of digging through complete releases and saving them to our libraries, the design choices of companies like iTunes and Spotify mean we use playlists as the interface for music collections. ...
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When Artists Lead Their Audiences: Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Beyoncé and More
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Here David Deal reflects on what it means for an artist to lean an audience, and why it is equally important for a performer to in turn both comfort and unsettle an audience with one's creative work. Guest Post by David Deal on Superhype “Are there any paranoids in the audience tonight?” With those caustic words, Roger Waters introduced “Run Like Hell” in concert in 1980. Waters continues to taunt and provoke his audience 37 years later when he performs ...
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Study Suggests Connecting With Fans, Public Shaming More Effective Than Legislation At Combating Piracy
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In an age where piracy is commonplace, using legal tools to combat it has proved largely ineffective. A new study suggests that publishers are better off connecting with fans and providing them with a compelling reason to purchase music instead. Guest Post by Timothy Geigner on Techdirt We have talked about the power of connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy, along with using public shaming, as tools for combating piracy in its various forms. Tools far better, in ...
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CD Baby, Music Gateway Partner To Provide New Sync Opportunities For Indie Artists
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CD Baby is partnering with Music Gateway and its newly launched Sync Portal which allows 300+ global advertising agencies and 700 music supervisors to easily license tracks from CD Baby’s sync catalog of 2 million songs film, TV, commercials and video games. A new CD Baby and Music Gateway partnership hopes to exploit the advantages that indie artists have in the competitive sync market: speed (all the rights are held by a single entity) and price (fewer mouths to feed ...
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IBM Partners With Sacem For Music Cloud-Based Rights Management Platform
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French performance rights organization Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Sacam) announced that they are partnering with technology giant IBM in a 10-year bid to develop URights, a cloud-based copyright platform designed to track and collect on online music for creators and publishers. URights aims to leverage cloud technology and data analytics, including IBM's Watson explorer to better identify and compensate copyright holders from a variety of service platforms. The platform will also offer creators and publishers new ...
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SoundExchange To Continue To Distribute Most Pandora Royalties To Artists Despite Direct Licensing Deals
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Royalties from Pandora’s ad-supported radio service will continue to be paid to artists through SoundExchange, despite recent direct licensing deals with major music companies. The agreement both insures a major income stream for SoundExchange and maintains the performing rights organization's position as a protector of artists. An agreement for SoundExchange to continue to serve as the distributor for royalties from Pandora’s ad-supported radio service has been completed with the approval of the major labels, Pandora's Glen Peoples announced in a ...
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YouTube’s Safe Harbor: The Push For Reform
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With YouTube being the most used streaming service in the world, the pressure is building from major artists for a reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which currently grants the video site safe harbor provisions harmful to artists. Guest post by Michael Kostaras from Berklee's Music Business Journal. Music industry pressure is mounting on YouTube. In June, a diverse group of 180+ major artists, including Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift, released a petition calling for a reform of the Digital Millennium ...
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