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Tech companies have made billions supporting the illegal exploitation of our cultural past
while ruthlessly pursuing the dismantling of incentives creators need to fashion our cultural future.
The Artists, United, Can Never Be Defeated
By Chris Castle -- Without great songs there are no great records and
without great records there is no Pandora. And that's the fact.
Radio Broadcasters Get an Earful at Internet Radio Fairness Hearing
By Alex Pham -- In a Congressional hearing that was supposed to be about
Internet radio royalties, lawmakers and speakers instead spent a good
portion of their time taking aim at the National Broadcasters
Association for not having to pay performance royalties to artists
(although the Internet-radio companies supposedly at the center of the
debate took plenty of lumps as well).
Techies Tell Congress High Music Royalties Hurt Artists
By Greg Sandoval -- Representatives from Pandora and venture capital
company note there isn't a single profitable digital music service and
they blame high royalties. [If i wanted to open a waffle and eggroll
restaurant, I'd probably include the cost of waffles and eggrolls in my
business plan. It's really idiotic to blame a bad business model on your
suppliers!]
Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
By Faza -- I think that I might take the opportunity to explain to the
Gentleman from Utah - and to everyone watching at home - why on the
internet, there can usually be only one.
iTunes 11: Be Very Afraid, Spotify...
By Paul Resnikoff -- Apple may already be winning the war over
streaming, we just don't know it yet. And part of the reason is that
streaming and downloading are slowly becoming the same thing.
BPI Asks Pirate Party UK to End Pirate Bay Support
By Tom Pakinkis -- The BPI has sent a letter to the Pirate Party UK
requesting that it stops providing access to illegal file-sharing
website The Pirate Bay via a proxy site. A Pirate Party press release in
October said that the proxy site serves approximately 2 million hits to
The Pirate Party every day.
The Many Faces of Music Video Interactivity
By Knar Bedian -- We devoted inches to wireWAX's "shoppable" music
video, which started us thinking about other promotional techniques that
might make sense these days. Now, we shift our focus to interactive
music videos as a species.
Ultra Music's YouTube Channel Hits 1 Million Subscribers, Moxey Calls Video Streaming 'Serious Revenue Source'
By Kerri Mason -- Dance-music powerhouse
Ultra Music
will announce later today that its YouTube channel has reached 1
million subscribers, making it the No. 1 independent label channel on
the site, and No. 11 channel overall.
Eavesdrop for Rdio Lets You Listen In on Your Friends' Music Streams
By Alan Henry --
Eavesdrop
is a developer app for Rdio that turns your friends on the service into
virtual DJs. The app lets you select a friend and listen to what
they're hearing in real time.
Music Marketing - The Ultimate Guide For Beginners Part 2
By Shaun Letang -- In part 2 we'll be looking at the importance of
making yourself stand out from the crowd, how to make your fans happy to
help promote you (And why they'll feel like that), and why you
shouldn't spread your marketing efforts too thin. [Also see:
Part 1]
Who Are The 25 Richest Musicians In 2012? [LIST]
By Hisham Dahud
Dolly Parton Talks Dreams, Love, Plastic Surgery
By Christine Kearney -- Although Dolly Parton has cemented her place in
country and popular music, pop culture, and as an entrepreneur and
philanthropist, (and one of the best darned songwriters in the business)
she still, on occasion, gets nervous.
Piano from "Casablanca" Could Sell for $1 Million at NY Auction
By Reuters -- The 58-key piano, (ideal for four fingered piano pickers) on which actor and singer Dooley Wilson performed
"As Time Goes By," has a pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million for the December 14 auction.
DEAN KAY
Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and
forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO
of the Welk Music Group, then as President/CEO of the US division of the
PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of
his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his
involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had
hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank
Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP
since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also
on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).
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