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Limewire: They Still Just Don't Get It
LimeWire wants parents to know that that stealing is OK as long as it's music. By Moses Avalon So, in one of my many news feeds I came across this open letter by an anonymous webmaster of LimeWire. In it he still maintains that what they did was not wrong and that his children will continue ...
Digital Music Sales to Outpace Physical by 2011
There's been a lot of talk about digital music sales outpacing those of physical recordings. Now there's a well researched study that sheds some light on when that will actually happen. PricewaterehouseCoopers Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010-2014 projects that digital music sales will overtake physical in 2011. There you have it. It's very likely that ...
The Voice of Music
I began my jazz life rather innocently as a Listener: a child sitting close to a V-M (The Voice of Music, it said on the inside lid) three-speed phonograph. I can summon up the worn brown felt of the turntable, the pattern of the speaker grille. And as I listened to the record of the moment ...
Pawn Shops and the (Jazz) Underclasses
One measure of the way things have been going for the jazz underclasses and the working poor in general over the last 20 years is to look at what's happened to pawn shops.Pawn shops are like tidal wetlands. You take estuaries for granted until a weather catastrophe hits and your split-level gets washed out ...
Trust and the Social Consumer
If you subscribe to the concept that (at least sometimes) the band is a brand and the fan is at their core a consumer, there is something to be learned from the new Nielson Consumer 360 study. “Consumers expect brands to be listening," Pete Blackshaw, Nielson EVP of Digital Strategic Services concluded in summing up the ...
Live Nation's Stock Drop 16% Due to Concert Cancellations
Concert touring giant Live Nation, a Wall Street darling for much of the past year as it far outperformed the S&P 500 index, has hit some sour notes of late. Widespread reports of a poor summer concert season -- including high-profile cancellations, poor ticket sales and the move by the company to drop its $13 per ...
Music Revolution Forces Major Label EMI to Evolve
Back in the nineties, when CDs were selling strong, we called the major labels the Big Six. After the music business's major transformation over the past decade, we're down to the Big Three -- officially speaking anyway. EMI, one of the so-called Big Four major record labels, no longer considers itself a “label" per se, but ...
Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference to Meet
On August 19 and 20 TheBandwidth Music | Technology Conferencetakes place on August 19 and 20 in San Francisco. This year's event will feature speakers from LimeWire, Beggars Group, IODA, and A2IM, with a special keynote by Jac Holzman, the former CEOand Creative Head of Elektra Records(1950) and Nonesuch Records (1964), who isnow serving as Senior ...
Music Publishers File Suit to Shut Down Limewire
After RIAA Success, Publishers Demand $150,000 Per Song Eight members of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against LimeWire. The suit follows a recent action filed by the RIAA that resulted in a court decision holding LimeWire liable for inducing copyright infringement leaving and leaving the company ...
Redeye Distribution Adds Marsalis and Welch Labels
Redeye Distribution has added to artist lead indie labels to its roster: Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings' record label Acony Records and Branford Marsalis' label Marsalis Music. Both artists have been released via major and larger independent labels in the past. Acony Records and Marsalis Music join such indie labels as Barsuk, Yep Roc, Kill Rock ...
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