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Should Indie Labels Sue Limewire Too?
While court challenges are a certainty, last week's victory by the RIAA and the major labels over Limewire was certainly a win for those fighting unauthorized downloading. The next day, one indie label executive emailed me this question “Should other labels, mostly indie, now go after cash-rich LimeWire and collect on behalf of artists? ...
Spotify Experiments with Two New Services
The evolution of Spotify continues with two new levels of service - Spotify Unlimited and Spotify Open. Today's additions each offer new approaches to the on-demand music service's two greatest challenges: how to cost effectively attract new users and how to then convert them into paying customers. Because of strong demand, Spotify has sometimes limited access ...
WMG's Edgar Bronfman Jr. Subject of Tell All Book
“Fortune's Fool" To Be Released July 13th WMG CEO will be getting the dreaded tell all book treatment this summer when Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis is released by Simon & Schuster. Authored by Fred Goodman, best known for the unflattering music business expos The Mansion on the Hill: ...
The Orchard Reports Revenue Up, Losses Down
On Friday, digital distributor The Orchard reported financial results for the quarter that ended March 31st. It was the first quarter reported since a round of layoffs and cost reductions. Revenue increased 16% to $17.8M in the quarter $15.3 million in the first quarter of 2009. Gross profit margin was 25% compared to 28% ...
Can the Music Industry Find It's Popcorn?
In the 1930's and 40's during what we in the U.S. refer to as the Great Depression, movie theaters wanted to find new ways to get patrons to part with their increasingly difficult to earn dollars. The solutions proved to be double features, air conditioning (an idea borrowed from the meat industry) and most successfully popcorn. ...
Overheard #narm - "Content is No Longer King"
From Monday @ NARM: “Content is no longer king. Access is king! Fans should be able to listen on phone, PC, iPod...provide them this luxury. and “Everyone in this industry should have a loyalty program...including labels." - Josh Gertz from Hip Digital VEVO: “In future, we want to be “Pandora-style. On-demand, ...
Interview: Greg Kot of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Part 4)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) -- Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3 Cultural critic Douglas Rushkoff has made the point that, “What [people are] missing from a cultural perspective is just because we're not willing to pay for professional journalists doesn't mean that corporations have become unwilling to pay for professional public ...
Interview: Greg Kot of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Part 3)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) -- Part 1 & Part 2 Recently, I spoke with Greg Kot (again), who is the author of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (now in paperback and still amazing!), a rock critic at The Chicago Tribune and co-host of the popular radio show Sound Opinions. In ...
Are a New Breed of Artists and Musicians Emerging from the Digital Swamp?
Press Pause Play If you accept that music, art and media are effected by the environment in which they were created, then the quantum shifts caused by technology and the net are changing not just the way art is consumed, but also how it is created and the perspective of the creators. That's the premise explored ...
RIAA Wins Major Court Ruling Against Limewire
The RIAA and the major labels have won a major court ruling against LimeWire which, much like previous lawsuits with Grokster, Kazaa and Morpheus, contends that the service deliberately encouraged users to violate copyrights and profited from the infringements. The court ruling listed 5 factors that, taken together, establish that LimeWire “intended to encourage “ infringement: ...
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