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Music Publishers File Suit to Shut Down Limewire
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HypeBot
After RIAA Success, Publishers Demand $150,000 Per Song
Eight members of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against LimeWire. The suit follows a recent action filed by the RIAA that resulted in a court decision holding LimeWire liable for inducing copyright infringement leaving and leaving the company just days to show why the service should not be shut down. The publishers' suit is filed as a related case.
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Redeye Distribution Adds Marsalis and Welch Labels
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HypeBot
Redeye Distribution has added to artist lead indie labels to its roster: Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings' record label Acony Records and Branford Marsalis' label Marsalis Music. Both artists have been released via major and larger independent labels in the past.
Acony Records and Marsalis Music join such indie labels as Barsuk, Yep Roc, Kill Rock Stars, Thrill Jockey and Daptone and such individual artists as Josh Ritter, Sun Kil Moon and Martin Sexton distributed nationally by Redeye. Marsalis Music ...
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New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT provides representation for superb jazz artists ADA ROVATTI, ARLEE LEONARD, PATRIZIA SCASCITELLI, and JAMIE BAUM Music industry veteran SCOTT FOSTER has announced the formation of a new artist management organization, SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT, with a unique spotlight on female jazz artists. Scott Foster's many years in the jazz festival business make him ideally positioned to understand the relationships between performers, audiences, media, and the business interests of concert presenters. His artist management services include concert booking, publicity, ...
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Gerald Casale of Devo: "Marketing is Everything."
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HypeBot
In this interview featured on Marketplace, Gerald Casale, founder of the group Devo, talks about his journey to recording a new album and reentering the music industry with his former group, for the first time in 20 years. This short except from his talk with Kai Ryssdal proved to be the most interesting part:
“the implosion of the music business in general, the functions of labels are almost gone, people have devalued music in terms of ...
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It's All Tutu Much: McCartney Writing Ballet Music
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Michael Ricci
Sorry, Sting, but it sounds like Paul McCartney has just lapped you in the race to be the pop musician with the most classical bona fides.
Mr. McCartney, the former Beatle and Wings man whose orchestral works include “Standing Stone" and “Ecce Cor Meum," told BBC News that he has agreed to write the music for a ballet and has already started work on the project.
“I'm interested in doing things I haven't done before," Mr. McCartney said to the ...
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Soundation Founder Bil Bryant on Sampling, Studios, and Cloud-Based Music-Making
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We All Make Music
According to sampling pioneer Bil Bryant, one day we will all be able to make whatever kind of music we want inside our computers.
Thanks to things like Indaba's Mantis studio and Soundation, a digital music studio which Bryant helped to develop, this is already starting to seem like a reality. But the real reason has to do with the explosion and evolution of sampling.
In the past four decades, sampling has grown from an avant-garde artistic curio into one ...
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The Financial Rise and Fall of RIAA and Major Labels
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HypeBot
(Update 2) Revenue reports from RIAA member labels and edited notes compiled by Ccomp5950 via Techdirt. Be sure to read @billboardglenn's corrections and clarifications in the comments section. Year: $ In Millions (revenue)
1993: 10046.6 (price of CD players drop)
1994: 12068
1995: 12320.3
1996: 12533.8
1997: 12236.8
1998: 13723.4 (Napster sued into bankruptcy)
1999: 14651 (Work for hire controversy)
2000: 14404
2001: 13700 (iPod released in October)
2002: 12,614.2 ...
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