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RIAA CEO Extremly Well Paid
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We All Make Music
Lawyers aren't the only people the RIAA is throwing money at.
CEO Mitch Bainwol receives a $1.91 million in annual salary, with “other compensation" from the RIAA and “related organizations" offering another $123,000.
Over $2 million is a pretty astounding sum to take in when you're presiding over an organization that doesn't exactly qualify as a great success.
Even more infuriating, Bainwol was making about $1.5 million in 2006. That means that after 3 years of collecting copyright infringement claims ...
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Greg Rollett: Outsource These 5 Things Now and Focus on Your Music
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HypeBot
So many musicians that read our site or go through some of our training go back to the same problems.
They are musicians, not marketers or internet superstars. This post is not meant to be an argument for the musician / businessman, but rather for those that want to get some things off their plate.
We have been experimenting with outsourcing firms, VA's and local workers (college students/super fans) to see what we can dish off a ...
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Jazz This Week: Reggie Thomas, Tom Byrne, World Percussion Theatre, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While there are no touring jazz or creative acts of note scheduled to be in St. Louis this mid-summer weekend, there are some local gigs happening over the next few days for which it may be worth braving the muggy, swamp-like weather. Here's a quick look at some highlights:Tonight, guitarist Tom Byrne does a free concert with his quartet for the summer Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. Pianist Reggie Thomas (pictured) and his trio ...
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Jeff Price of Tunecore "Apologizes" to Silverman
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Jeff Price, CEO of the digital music distributor TuneCore, has been vocal about his disagreements with Tommy Silverman in the past, but when charged with the account of helping clutter the music environment with crap in a recent WIRED feature on What's Wrong With The Music Biz, Price became quite apologetic:
“We're sorry that the fact that people are buying music from TuneCore Artists is stopping people from buying music that Tommy likes. If Tommy could only control what ...
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RIAA Keeps Lawyers Well Paid
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We All Make Music
The RIAA has been investing in first-rate lawyers to fight copyright infringement.
Unfortunately, they are not seeing much of a return on that investment.
In 2008, the RIAA paid its lawyers over $16 million to pursue copyright infringement claims. Total recovery for these claims amounted to $390,000.
Ouch.
As if that wasn't bad enough, these numbers are pretty consistent with those from 2007 ($21 million spent to recover $515,929) or 2006 ($19 million spent to recover $455,000). That means for ...
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Tag Strategic Founder Ted Cohen on Branding Your Band and Investments
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We All Make Music
With the New Music Seminar just around the corner (and a couple discount registrations still available!), we're previewing it by doing interviews with some of the participants.
Yesterday, we spoke with Ted Cohen, the founder of TAG Strategic, a digital branding strategy firm that serves tech and media companies. Prior to founding TAG, Cohen worked in artist development at Warner Brothers in the '70s and '80s, working with artists like Prince, Pretenders, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, and the Ramones. He ...
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A Graphic Look at Who Got Paid What in the Old School Record Industry
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My Response to "Why You Should Pay for Music."
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Near the end June, audio engineer Jon Sheldrick published a rather thoughtful, well-written essay titled “Why You Should Pay For Music." It was everywhere. Huffington Post. Sound Ctrl. Hell, I even republished it on our sister blog, Music Think Tank. But, the essay left me wanting more. More what? Well, more thoughtful discussion of the issues that surround file-sharing and someone, my hope: the ever vigilant and critical MTT comments section, to deconstruct the moments of obfuscation that occur in ...
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