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The Creators Project Takes Loud, Sweaty, Encouraging First Steps
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We All Make Music
On Saturday, The Creators Project, an Intel and Vice-headed initiative designed to “identify leading artists across the world who are pushing creative boundaries through technology," held an enormous music and art event at Milk Studios in New York.
The first of four events that will take place in various cities around the world this summer, Saturday's event was designed to generate buzz for the Project, and all the right elements were in play: a murderer's row of much-hyped music acts, ...
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Spotify Payments to Artists Grow 8x
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HypeBot
Reports coming from Swedish performing rights groups show that Spotify's payments to artists appear to be growing exponentially. Swedish songwriters association STIM spokesperson Susanne Bodin confirmed an “eightfold increase" in payments to its members over last year. STIM had reported that last June's payments were 500,000 kroner with the latest payment rising to 4 million kroner ($512,280) according the TheLocal.se.
Just how much revenue Spotify can generate has been among the major concerns preventing the major labels from allowing the ...Continue Reading
Ascap Attacks Creative Commons, the Eff and Advocates of Free Music
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"our biggest challenge ever."
Last week ASCAP sent a fund raising letter to its members launching a campaign to counter the efforts of the country's most vocal advocates of copyright reform.
“Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote 'Copyleft' in order to undermine our 'Copyright.' They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth is these groups simply do not want to pay ...
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Muenster-Dummel
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Rifftides reader Dave Bernard sent this inquiry:
What did muenster-dummel mean on the Norgran record jackets? For those born after the LP era, the terms may draw a blank. Norgran was one of two labels founded by Norman Granz (1918-2001), who created Jazz At The Philharmonic in the 1940s. His other early label was Clef. Norgran and Clef eventually morphed ino Verve. Granz was a pioneer of the jazz concert and a tough, resourceful businessman. He guided the careers of ...
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Notes from the Net: A Rare Miles Davis TV Appearance; the J@LC Visits London; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* There's lots of Miles Davis news this week, starting with, appropriately enough, a post from Howard Mandel on his Jazz Beyond Jazz blog reflecting on Davis' continued ubiquity nearly 20 years after his death. Then there's the recent ...
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French Ready to Nab 50,000 Infringements Every Day
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Is The U.S. Next?
Recent French vows to stop illegal file sharing have new teeth with the anti-piracy outfit Trident Media Guard being chosen to track and report illegal file-sharers . The company, also known seeding of file-sharing networks with fake data, will provide much of the evidence needed to prosecute users under France's tough new 3 strikes laws.
TMG's system can capture as many as 18,250,000 infringements per year or 50,000 every day. “Our agreements provide that ...Continue Reading
Sound Exchange Distributes Record $54.8m
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SoundExchange announced that it will distribute $54.8 million to artists and right holders for the second quarter of 2010. It's a record for the non-profit performance rights organization appointed by Congress to
collect digital royalties. Their previous top quarter was the $51.7 million paid out in Q1. Each quarterly distribution includes royalties earned through play on Internet radio, satellite radio, cable TV music channels and increased revenue from foreign societies. Digital royalties are on the rise across the board, but ...
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10 Years Later, garageband.com Closes
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After more than ten years of operation, the online music community Garageband.com has announced that on July 15th they are shutting down. Users can register for an account on the social music discovery site iLike to have their page contents and song files automatically transferred over. Anyone who has purchased music on the site and believes they deserve a refund can contact the company to request one, but it must be done before July 31st.
Here's the letter sent to ...
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