ASCAP Daily Brief

Friday, February 07, 2014

We are pleased to offer you the ASCAP Daily Brief powered by The Dean's List This daily email, compiled by ASCAP Board member, music publisher and songwriter Dean Kay, cuts through the media clutter to bring you links to the most relevant news and commentary on the rapidly evolving music industry and how it affects your future livelihood. Now the ASCAP Daily Brief can be accessed on the Headlines page of ASCAP.com and in the ASCAP RSS Feed. "Copyright theft is theft as in identity, not in car." Richard Bennett - Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Heading out of town for business meetings. Back on the 17th. Growing Up With Radio By Brad Hill -- [DK comment: Brad Hill offers a wonderful recollection of times past. He also provides a reminder of how sterile today's algorithm'd music delivery systems truly are. In the early days of the "rock revolution," everybody's hometown was its own Petri dish for the development of new strains of popular music. The experiment was overseen by a mix of crazy, zany and mellow men and women who delivered the fresh and exhilarating new music straight into the brains of willing and excited listeners who believed they were enablers of change. And they were, with their loyalties and their dollars.] Italian, French Music Revenues Up for First Time in Over 10 Years By Richard Smirke 2008 – Educating and Empowering the Music Community By ASCAP100 -- ASCAP establishes a Bill of Rights for Songwriters & Composers and publishes its powerful position paper, Music Copyright in the Digital Age. The Bill of Rights has received over 13,000 signatures so far... What Bruno Mars' Super Bowl Show Means For His Earnings By Zack O'Malley Greenburg How To Get Your Music On Pandora: Physical CD No Longer Required By Clyde Smith -- Pandora has finally opened its doors to musicians (and comics) who aren't on a label and don't have a physical CD with UPC on Amazon. YouTube Cracks Down On Fake Views As Google Links To 'Buy YouTube Views' By Bruce Houghton [It's not up to creators to fund a rotten business model by accepting little or no pay for attracting billions of views to Google Ads.] Can Susan Wojcicki Help YouTube Creators Make Money? By Lauren Hockenson -- Wojcicki's strong leadership at Google Ads, and her success in that department, may grow YouTube's prospects and profits in the long term. But it's hard to ignore the increasing unrest among content creators who see YouTube as an untenable ecosystem that ultimately doesn't pay enough for the work it demands. Pandora and Twitter Revenue Rises, Stocks Fall By Alex Pham [Tech's "really creepy factor" gets closer to taking center stage.] Tech Industry Flexes Muscle in California Race By Norimitsu Onishi -- The race in the 17th Congressional District in California underscores the tech industry's push to elect candidates who will further its interests, even if it means trying to replace a party stalwart with a relative unknown. Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction By Bill Wasik Ten Legal Practice Tips: Developing and Distributing Apps By Jamie N. Nafziger -- Apps likely contain several elements of intellectual property. Protect copyrights, patents and trade secrets as you would in other software projects. 9 Email Productivity Secrets That Will Get Your Life Back By Jayson DeMers -- Does it sometimes feel like email is taking over your life? Considering that reading and responding to email accounts for about 28% of our total workweek, this isn't much of an exaggeration. 7 Negotiating Techniques Musicians Need To Use To Get Paid By Ari Herstand If You Can't Afford a Luxury Apartment in Manhattan, Here's a 360-degree Panoramic of The View. [This is very cool.] 5-Second Test to See If You're a Good Liar By Colin Schultz 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual By Kyle VanHemert 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). The ASCAP Daily Brief-Powered by The Dean's List is intended as a guide to direct music professionals to key articles about issues facing the entertainment industry. Recipients are encouraged to read further about the issues by accessing the complete article through the links provided. Author attribution is provided with each article, and none of the links allow readers to by-pass subscription archive gateways. Please note that all editorial comments are indicated in brackets. Questions? Comments? Please Contact Us

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