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RIAA Keeps Lawyers Well Paid
The RIAA has been investing in first-rate lawyers to fight copyright infringement. Unfortunately, they are not seeing much of a return on that investment. In 2008, the RIAA paid its lawyers over $16 million to pursue copyright infringement claims. Total recovery for these claims amounted to $390,000. Ouch. As if that wasn't bad enough, these numbers ...
Notes from the Net: John Zorn's Montreal Controversy, Kevin Eubanks Unbound, Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs 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:* In the latest Miles Davis-related news, Michael Bourne reviewed the “We Want Miles" exhibit ...
Mark Mulligan: "Most Fans Don't Use Many Devices"
The thinking behind cloud-based music services tends to go something like this: fans want to access their song libraries across as many devices as possible. The problem? Mark Mulligan from Forrester has posted a new study that suggests “most consumers don't use many devices to listen to music." But, the problems don't just stop there. In ...
More on How the Biggest Artists Use Social Media
After Famecount published a chart of the top music artists on social networks, based on their friend and follower counts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Stuart Dredge over at Sandbox followed-up and tried to understand what could be learned from what these artists are doing with their social media fame, and whether there are ...
New Music Sales Reports Send Mixed Signal
The U.S. single-track download market slipped 0.2% to 597.4 million tracks in the first half of the year according to Nielsen SoundScan. The data may suggest that the digital music singles market has reached a saturation point. Variable pricing, which has set top new releases at $1.29 rather than the more standard $.99, may have also ...
The Music Industry's Shift from Master to Equal
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal" - Charles Darwin Fans who were once at the mercy of a few men's musical tastes, pricing schemes and format changes have used the tools provided by the digital revolution to set themselves free. But for too many ...
Ioumusic: New Artist Crowdfunding App Launches
How Does It Compare To Other Fan Funding Sites? IOUmusic, in a similar vein as other grassroots, crowdfunding applications such as Kickstarter and RocketHub, is a new donation website that's focused on assisting musicians and providing them with alternative means to fund their creative projects. As well, they are positioning themselves as a way for fans ...
Is Jazz a Young Person's Music After All?
From Stereophile.com Fred Kaplan Blog Is Jazz a Young Person's Music After All? By Fred Kaplan A week ago, I went to see Chris Potter lead a top-notch quintet at the Jazz Standard. It was a great set. Potter's big tenor-sax sound keeps getting more swinging, more virtuosic, yet at the same time tonally ...
Tommy Silverman: "Hobbyists... Clutter the Music Environment with Crap."
Over at Wired, there's an intriguing interview piece where the ever curious Eliot Van Buskirk talks with Tommy Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy Records, about “What's Wrong With Music Biz." As expected, there are some rather controversial things said in relation to what it means to “break" an artist in the music industry these days, and ...
Adam Singer: Fighting the Future at Every Turn
In response to post on on WSJ's All Things Digital blog by Kara Swisher, where she laments about a lack of business models for the entertainment industry in the digital age, PR strategist Adam Singer has written a great critique of her piece--that's worth the read and full of quotable lines. He finds it to be ...
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