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Rockers to Press Obama on Music Torture
Reprieve, a British human rights law group that represents over 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees, is planning to work with musicians to lobby President-elect Barack Obama to end the practice of sonic torture by military interrogators. Earlier this month, Reprieve and the U.K. Musicians Union launched Zero dB, a “silent protest" over the use of music in ...
Analysis: RIAA Strategy Shift Mired in Murky Legal Waters
The Recording Industry Association of America's new enforcement strategy is based on a questionable interpretation of what constitutes copyright infringement. And its copyright-detection services remain under a cloud at the center of a class action legal challenge. The RIAA, the record labels' legal and lobbying arm, announced Friday it would begin phasing out its five-year campaign ...
What the RIAA Doesn't Want You to Know...
The RIAA is telling us they're going to stop suing and get internet service providers to help them stop illegal file sharing. The RIAA says that it's worked for the movie industry (sort of) and they're talks with ISP's have been going well. Here's what they're not telling you: While a few ISP's have ...
RIAA Qualifies Statement on No New Copyright Lawsuits
The Recording Industry Association of America is clearing the air over its comments that it has not initiated litigation in months against alleged copyright scofflaws. On Friday, the RIAA announced it was abandoning its legal strategy of suing individuals for copyright infringement, and said it had not sued anybody for months. Ray Beckerman, an attorney the ...
Music's Long Tail Just Got a Lot Shorter
173,000 of the 1.23M albums available sold at least 1 copy last year That means 85% of albums did move a single copy all year. 80% of of all single track sales revenue came from 52,000 tracks All this is according to a new study by Will Page, chief economist of the ...
SonyBMG Signs on with Project Playlist
Project Playlist, who late last week had its widget banned from MySpace at the request of “major music companies", today announced an agreement with SONY BMG for both audio and video. A least one other label is rumored to be close to deals as well. Prior to the MySpace takedown, Project Playlist's web site ...
ScrollMotion Developer Strikes E-Book Deals with Major Publishers
ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Publishers now on board include Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Hachette and Penguin Group USA. ...
8 Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special
Remember when Apple customers felt hip? There was a time when a glowing Apple logo symbolized radical nonconformity. Being part of a miniature customer base was, to Mac users, like being a member of a holier-than-thou, secret society a “Cult of Mac," if you will. But when Apple's ecosystem grew beyond notebooks and desktops to phones ...
Warner Music Pulls All Content from Youtube
Unable to renegotiate the share of ad revenue it sought, Warner Music Group has pulled all of its content from YouTube. Affected are thousands of songs and artists from WMG's extensive recording catalog, as well as, those published by Warner/Chappell Music who may not record for the company. “We are working actively to find a resolution ...
