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Ingrooves Continues International Expansion

June 30, 2010

Spotify Payments to Artists Grow 8x

June 29, 2010

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 ...

Ascap Attacks Creative Commons, the Eff and Advocates of Free Music

June 29, 2010

"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 ...

French Ready to Nab 50,000 Infringements Every Day

June 29, 2010

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 ...

Sound Exchange Distributes Record $54.8m

June 26, 2010

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 ...

10 Years Later, garageband.com Closes

June 28, 2010

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 ...

The Death of the Live Album

June 25, 2010

Though this topic strikes me as something to be less than worried about, it still seems worth pointing you to this article where reporter Andrew Dansby asks, “Is the live album dead?" Likely, there are far many more issues that demand attention than the question as to whether not live albums ...

RealNetworks Cuts 85, 25% of Executive Staff

June 24, 2010

Even after the recent spin-off of Rhapsody, RealNetworks continues to struggle. Today the company announced another round of layoffs that include 85 jobs or 6% of the total workforce. The cuts include 25% of its executives and will shrink offices in Europe, Asia and its Seattle headquarters. Real also consolidated its Technology Products and Solutions and ...

Paradox or Paradise: Music Choice in the Digital Age

June 27, 2010

In mynew essay on our sister blog Music Think Tank, I expand the scope of my previous essay , The Paradox of Music: Is More, Really Less, and explore the paradoxes of choice overload in culture.I try to determine whether or not the web has created a “paradise of music" for fans. The answer is surprising ...

Hewlett Packard Pays $30m for Music Streaming Service Melodeo

June 24, 2010

Is HP Music In The Cloud Coming Soon? Just as when Apple recently bought Lala.com, yesterday's purchase of music streaming service Melodeo by computer giant Hewlett Packard points straight towards a cloud based media offering. But unlike Steve Jobs, HP executives were not so silent: “Melodeo is one of the only companies which possess the ...