Technology News

Yahoo Music to Include iTunes, Youtube Integration

Source: PC Magazine
April 7, 2009

Yahoo will launch a revamped version of its music service Tuesday, which will include artists' pages and modules from competing services like iTunes, Pandora, and Amazon. Users visiting Yahoo Music will have the option of listening to music from iTunes, Amazon, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, or YouTube while remaining on the Yahoo site. The site will also feature artists pages with tour dates, music videos, downloads, streaming content, editorial content, and more from top artists. Yahoo said that it will soon ...

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Review of the Free Music Debate

Source: HypeBot
April 7, 2009

Inspired by the coming release of Chris Andersen's book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, we've been exploring the importance of free music. There is no debating that free is here, but the discussion as to how to use free music, even how to monetize it, has just begun.

Last week's posts sparked a lively debate among readers and in other publications. Ex-Coolfer blogger Glenn Peoples, now at Billboard, wrote an extensive essay “The Free Debate“ noting that, “as ...

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Notes from the Net: Miles' Sartorial Style, the "Purdie Shuffle" Celebrated, Bennett and Evans Re-Released, Plus News, Reviews and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 7, 2009

Here's the latest weekly compilation of news 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:* As longtime StLJN readers know, whenever possible we like to start these news roundups with something about Miles Davis, and this week brings a couple of items indicating Davis' celebrity beyond the musical world.Specifically, the trumpeter and ...

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AP to Aggregators: We Will Sue You

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2009

The Associated Press board voted Monday to “pursue legal and legislative actions" against aggregators who use content without permission, a new shot across the bow of internet news sites in the war over how little use is “fair use."

The AP named no potential targets, yet speculation immediately turned to Google. While the search giant pays the AP to host full versions of wire service stories, it generally does not have contracts with AP member newspapers whose headlines it also ...

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NY State Targets Secondary Ticket Market

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2009

New York Senator Introduces Ticket Legislation After Botched Springsteen Onsale

After criticizing Ticketmaster for the Bruce Springsteen ticket fiasco in February, New York Senator Chuck Schumer plans to introduce legislation today that will help curb the secondary-ticket market that frequently drives up prices, the Wall Street Journal reports. Schumers bill will propose a two-day waiting period between when tickets go on sale to the public and when resellers can sell them through secondary-ticket sites. The plan would apply to TicketsNow, ...

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Pianist Gould Foresaw Tech Role in Music

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2009

This week marks 45 years since Glenn Gould made his last public performance. He preferred to offer recordings that someday, he wrote, could be altered by the listener in different ways.

Forty-five years ago this week, the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould stepped off the stage of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and became the prophet of a new technology.

Gould's act was an act of omission, not commission. That April 10, 1964, recital in the Los Angeles hall was the ...

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Ticketmaster Seller Records Subpoenaed

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2009

Regulators look closer at Ticketmaster-Live Nation. Last month Ticketmaster Chairman Barry Diller denied wrongdoing in the handling of the Springsteen tickets.

The company is being forced to identify clients who sold tickets to two Springsteen concerts in New Jersey. Fans complained about paying marked-up prices through Ticketmaster's resale unit.

An investigation into how Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. handled Bruce Springsteen concerts has reached the subpoena stage.

The giant ticketing company based in West Hollywood incurred the wrath of the singer, concert-goers ...

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Murdoch Calls Google, Yahoo Copyright Thieves

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2009

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corp. and The Wall Street Journal, says Google and Yahoo are giant copyright scofflaws that steal the news.

“The question is, should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyright ... not steal, but take," Murdoch says. “Not just them, but Yahoo."

But whether search-engine news aggregation is theft or a protected fair use under copyright law is unclear, even as Google and Yahoo profit tremendously from linking to news. So maybe Murdoch ...

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