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Heartbleed Bug: A Musician's Guide to the Web's Biggest Security Threat
Ideally you've already heard of Heartbleed and are acting accordingly. If not, you need to know that a “crypto bug" in OpenSSL has been identified that, if exploited, “allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users." Yeah, yeah, sounds scary but what's a musician ...
Twitter Redesign-in-Progress Offers Fresh Music Marketing Potential
Yeah, the extra photos and tagging that Twitter recently introduced are definite boons to music marketers. But they're not stopping there. Things are getting all crazy, Facebook-ish, “media forward" some people call it. Lots of new marketing potential emerging on Twitter but writers invoking Facebook helped me realize how Twitter, too, may already be curtailing organic ...
Big Data Changed How We Measure Success
By Emmanuel Legrand of Legrand Network. This story was originally published in French by IRMActu. Who's No.1? How do you assess and define success? Who are the most popular artists and recordings at any given time? Ever since there has been a music industry, these questions have obsessed record company executives and artists alike. And to ...
How to License Your Work to Music Libraries
By Composer and Filmmaker Jennifer Kes Remington. So in my quest to throw multiple things against the wall and hope that money comes out of it, I’ve been licensing a lot of my music to library companies. I started doing this one July when I was between music gigs, and I thought, “Gee, Christmas is coming ...
ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN Song Registration Gets Easier with Musicmark Collaboration
Three major performing rights organizations (PROs), ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN, are working together to make it possible for music publishers to submit songs to all three at once through their new MusicMark collaboration. Though the three PROs will continue to maintain separate operations and payout procedures, MusicMark is designed to unify information from all three about ...
David Byrne and Friends Address Money, Art on His Relaunched Website
Back in February David Byrne relaunched his official website with an emphasis on new content and guest writers. Since then he's continued to address artist revenue topics in his now established role as public intellectual. In the process he's speculated on such topics as what a new Internet might look like and, over the weekend, how ...
Travel with a Musical Instrument? Fill Out This Survey to Improve Domestic and Foreign Travel
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) is gathering data for their efforts to improve travel conditions for musicians traveling with instruments both in the U.S. and internationally. They're asking all musicians, not just AFM members, to respond in order to address your experience with international travel certificates and “musical passport" programs as well as domestic travel ...
Bandpage Raises $9.25 Million in New Funding
BandPage, a free online marketing and monetization platform for musicians, has raised $9.25 in Series C funding. The round was led by previous investors GGV Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures and brings BandPage’s total capital raised to over $28 million. BandPage launched in 2010, becoming a hugely successful Facebook app. Surviving several major shifts in Facebook's rules ...
Twitter's New Music Strategy: Vevo Music Videos, Beats Music Ads, Soundcloud Partnership
It seemed to be a widespread conclusion that the Twitter #Music App was essentially dead long before the announcement that it was being pulled. Though critics continue to address the topic from time to time, focus is now moving on to Twitter's future plans. According to two writers for WSJ.com and their sources, Twitter will roll ...
What to Do when Your Album Leaks
By James Shotwell, Social Media Coordinator of the media distribution service Haulix. At Haulix, we dedicate the majority of our daily lives to making sure the music stored and distributed through our state-of-the-art servicing platform is as secure as it can possibly be. From the moment clients upload music to our servers their files are watermarked, ...
