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Danish Anti-Piracy Group: "The Market Will Die if Grooveshark Continues..."
If you want to dismantle Grooveshark, then you'll probably need to dismantle the DMCA as well. Or, you can try this: in Denmark, anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen is now demanding that ISPs block Grooveshark, and pushing that demand through the local court system. That closely follows a similar action against the Pirate Bay in the region, an ...
"Record Companies Keep Lists of Works Exploited... for Which Royalties Have Not Been Paid"
If you're signed to a major label, you might want to look away. This is from a class action lawsuit filed against the major labels in Canada, alleging non-payment of royalties on compilation releases. The initial claim was filed in 2008 for $50 million, and ultimately settled this year for $45 million. The defendant labels were ...
Since 1998, CD Baby Has Paid $200 Million in Artist Royalties...
The company just shared the impressive threshold with Digital Music News, while also pointing to a clientele of 250,000 artists. The $200 million royalty number is cumulative, thoughthis is a quickly-ramping figure: CD Baby is now paying approximately $40 million per year, and expects to hit the quarter-billion-mark sometime next year. And this is money paid ...
Pandora CTO: Majority of Americans Pay $0 for Music...
How many people are actually reaching for their wallets to enjoy music—at least once in a given year? The answer could be depressingly slim, according to talking points jotted down by TechCrunch. “Over half of the US doesn't pay anything for music each year," estimated Pandora CTO Tom Conrad atGigaOm's Roadmap Conference. On top of that, ...
Big Mistake? Pandora Currently Has No Plans to Integrate into Facebook...
A Spotify-style Facebook integration is not on the roadmap for Pandora—and may never be—according to founder Tim Westergren. Instead, the company is pushing a strategy that prioritizes Pandora's homegrown social networking tools, while still enabling some push updates and connectivity options through Facebook, Twitter, and email. “We're going to watch how [those tools are] embraced and ...
Hillary Clinton Says Anti-Piracy and Internet Freedoms Are "Mutually Consistent..."
Can you clamp down on piracy, without clamping down on free speech and internet freedoms? In a recent letter sent to Representative Howard Berman (D-California), Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton offered her strong support, while underscoring that “internet freedoms" and “intellectual property protections" were “mutually consistent." Berman is a co-sponsor of the tough Stop Online ...
Copyright Industries Employ Nearly 11 Million Americans...
f you're looking for a hot-button topic to jolt things along, try jobs. According to a report presented by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus this morning, copyright industries employed 10.6 million Americans in 2010, or nearly 10 percent of the private workforce. You can see where this is going. The report, 'Copyright Industries In the US,' ...
Sirius Might Be Staring at Its Own 'Netflix Moment'...
If you love your Sirius XM, then you probably love music just as much. Which means you have lots of options at your fingertips, most of them free. Sure, Sirius curates the chaos, but do you need that curation, especially when it's not your only hangout? Can you live without your Stern, your MLB, your Shade45? ...
Twitter is Now Following the Music Industry in a Serious Way...
Twitter is expanding its strategy of brokering high-impact media relationships, and that could mean some very interesting music deals ahead. Already, the company is putting the final touches on a big partnership with 'The X Factor' in the US, one that involves realtime voting and feedback. But that's just a humble beginning. 'The X Factor' handshake ...
Clear Channel Radio Has Efficiently Eliminated Your Position...
Ah, that authentic, local radio flavor, as only a highly-efficient programming restrategization can deliver. We're not sure exactly what the retooled strategy is, though we do know that Clear Channel Radio is now chopping hundreds of station positions, according to early estimates. “It looks like a huge rank-and-file chop across radio stations' personel," one source told ...
