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Digital Music Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Against Major Labels Moves Forward
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A consolidated class action lawsuit claiming that the major labels fixed prices on digital music will move forward, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Monday. The suit contends that the major labels signed agreements with joint-venture entities MusicNet and Pressplay containing a hidden Favored Nation clause guaranteeing that each recieved equal terms. According to the filing, digital retailers, like eMusic, that originally agree to the Favored Nation terms were shut out by the major labels. Defendants include labels that ...
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Music as a Service: Audiosocket Launches Music Licensing Api
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Music licensing and technology company Audiosocket, is launching a unique digital music licensing platform dubbed Music as a Service (MaaS). Anywhere that MaaS is embedded, content producers can offer the ability to search for and license music from a curated catalog of 33,000 songs from 1,900 mostly indie artists and share in the revenue generated. An example might be YouTube offering users a legally licensed soundtrack to accompany a video. Artists set their own prices and split revenue with Audiosocket ...
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Help Sweet Relief Support Musicians in Need
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Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial support to professional musicians who need help when facing illness, disability or aging issues. The organization was founded in 1993 and a wide variety of folks, including musicians and music-related organizations, have supported the organization through donations and benefits. Since many musicians do not have health insurance, have limited or variable incomes and have few resources for emergencies, Sweet Relief offers an opportunity for musicians to help each other. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund was ...
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Slicethepie's Soundout Gets $2 Million Funding for Song Analytics
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UK based SoundOut, an division of fan funding platform SliceThePie, has raised $2 million in equity funding from a number of private investors and entrepreneurs. Tens of thousands of online “scouts" have used the platform to generate 6 million reviews rating 75,000 tracks. SoundOut claims this comparative database can predict the commercial potential of a new release in any genre in any market. It's a bold claim, but media, labels and artists eager to focus limited resources appear to be ...
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Alleged RIAA, Sony Hackers Anonymous Arrested
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At least 14 alleged members of hacking group Anonymous were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday. Anonymous had claimed responsibility for disrupting Sony sites for weeks, as well as,hacking the RIAA, MPAA, CIA and other. An offshoot group also attacked Universal Music and others. Their most common tactic was a denial of service attack, in which large amounts of traffic are directed to a website, to overloading it and effectively shut it down. The arrests took place in New York, ...
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Call for Research Papers Focused on Jazz Audiences
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Christy Farnbauch
The third annual Jazz Education Network Conference, January 4-7, Louisville, KY is calling for submission of research papers related to its theme “Developing Tomorrow's Jazz Audiences Today." The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with topics related to audience development for jazz in particular, but also for the arts in general. The research track will run parallel with presentations by the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus on the Jazz Audiences Initiative. Such presentations will include ...
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Band Members Need to Build Individual Brands
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Members of bands typically have weaker brands than the band as a whole. Even highly prominent members, such as singers and lead guitarists, often have difficulty developing a strong following after leaving popular bands. The ideal approach to thriving long term in the music industry is to build one's own brand, not by trying to grab the spotlight from other band members, but by pursuing one's own interests and creating a solid individual identity. I first started thinking about this ...
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Converse Rubber Tracks Studio Opens to Support Musicians and Reap Marketing Bounty
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Converse Rubber Tracks, a free recording studio in Brooklyn sponsored by Converse, has recently opened for business. In addition to being a great thing for artists that get in, Rubber Tracks is an awesome branding move for a company that has rebuilt its position in the sneaker game, in part, by leveraging youth culture and the phantasmagora known as “cool." I've never heard anybody write convincingly about the concept of cool, except in a historical sense, so I won't try. ...
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