Music Industry News

Top Five Music Licensing Myths Debunked

Source: We All Make Music
June 30, 2010

[Editor's Note: This is a repost of an article written by Scott McIntosh, the founder of MusikPitch, an online marketplace that connects talented songwriters with music supervisors, studios, brands, and anyone else looking for custom music.

Click here to read WAMM contributor Sasha Lee's profile of the service]

1. Licensing music is a loss of copyright control.

Licensing music is not a loss of copyright control, but a transfer of the right to use a song for a certain purpose. ...

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The Return of Jazz Shtick

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
June 30, 2010

Cymbal-HeadWhy did Louis Armstrong's standing in the jazz scene plummet during his “Hello Dolly" era, as if he had not been The Man? The reason may be that 1964 was about the time that jazz lost its sense of humor. Not its sly, oblique sense of humor, but the acceptance of a broad style that included a slick dance and a straight-up belly-laugh. The change didn't happen with the Boppers, although it started to shift. Diz had one ...

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MOG Expands to Roku, iPhone

Source: HypeBot
June 30, 2010

Music streaming service MOG has expanded its reach with the a new deal to offer access via the popular Roku tv setup box and Apple's approval of its iPhone app. For $5 -$10 a month, Roku customers can access MOG's 7.5 million songs via their TV sound system or other connected device. The iPhone app, which should debut in July, has been held up in Apple's app approval hell for more than a month.

MOG has many competitors and like ...

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Ingrooves Continues International Expansion

Source: HypeBot
June 30, 2010

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Playboy Sues Drake for Copyright Infringement

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2010

Drake has emerged as one of raps hottest acts. The rapper Drakes breakthrough single, “Best I Ever Had," which went from a mixtape to a popular EP, didn't get to be the best all on it's own, according to a copyright infringement suit filed by Playboy Enterprises.

In the suit, which Playboy filed in a California federal court on June 25, the company says that Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Graham, used material from the 1975 song “Fallin in ...

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Tom Hess on Underrated Music Industry Contacts

Source: We All Make Music
June 30, 2010

As a musician, making contacts in the industry is extremely important.  Touring guitarist-turned-music-mentor Tom Hess points out that some of the most valuable contacts an artist can make come from an often overlooked group of music professionals:

Concert promoters.

While Hess has come up with some questionable advice in the past (hiring hot chicks to attend your gigs), he is definitely onto something with the concert promoter thing.

As Hess rightly points out, simply making contacts isn't enough. Artists need ...

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Sharing What I've Learned - "Pay-What-You-Want" Music Consulting

Source: Michael Ricci
June 29, 2010

I'm a big fan of sharing. I truly believe that we're more successful when we share everything openly and honestly with those around us. It's part of the reason I started this blog. It's the entire reason I gave a free Ustream seminar on Touring. And it's the reason that I've been considering offering consulting services to my fellow musicians. I've been mulling this idea over for a while now, and while I feel I've been ready to do it ...

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Music Producers Guild's Credit Where Credit's Due Campaign

Source: We All Make Music
June 29, 2010

A UK-based group called the Music Producers Guild has announced the launch of the Credit Where Credit is Due Campaign.

The campaign is intended to foster support for an independent database of information about the session musicians and producers who worked on a given song: Who played bass on track seven of the new Beyonc album? the campaign press release asks rhetorically.

In the old days, it was easy enough to find this information. Almost every release by a major ...

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