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Wednesday, December 19, 2012




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.

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.


VIDEO: Music and Copyright in the Digital Era: DAVID BYRNE in Conversation with CHRIS RUEN
By New York Public Library -- In How Music Works, Byrne explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.

Creative Commons Celebrates Ten Years
By Terry Hart -- Should creators use Creative Commons licenses? The idea behind the licenses is a good one: copyright gives creators the choice of how and when to exploit the products of their labor. But unfortunately, despite the ease in using the licenses - or perhaps because of this ease - creators and users should take note of some concerns raised about them that urge caution.

The "Common Law Property" Myth in the Libertarian Critique of IP Rights (Part 2)
By Adam Mosoff

[Looks like infiltrating the White House and unleashing your legion of lobbyists is effective.]
As Europe Presses Google on Antitrust, U.S. Backs Away
By James Kanter and Steve Lohr -- Google appears to be emerging from an major antitrust investigation in the United States essentially unscathed. But the outlook is not as bright for Google in Europe.

Twitter and Nielsen Pair up to Publish New "Social TV" Ratings
By Gerry Shih -- The new measurement, dubbed the "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating," seeks to tap into the stream of viewer commentary and armchair musings generated on "second screens" - the smartphones and tablets perched on Twitter users' laps while they watch, say, Monday Night Football or the latest episode of Homeland on their TVs.

What Social Media Has To Do With Record Sales
By Victor Hu & Liv Bul -- The ability to track and catalog all of this activity has evolved only in the last few years and begs the question: does this social media activity actually lead to album or track sales? Which of the countless networks actually matter? Radio spins have long been considered the industry standard for predicting sales, and with good reason, but is that still the case?

Facebook Has Been Sucking The Life Out Of Artist / Fan Communication
By Scott Perry

[Didja ever get the feeling that Nostradamus had nothing on the motion picture, The Blob, when it came to forecasting the future?]
Computers That Will See, Hear, Smell: Next, World Domination?
By Deborah Netburn

Shazam Launches New Interface Plus Offline Mode
By Eliot Van Buskirk -- One reason people love Music ID apps is their immediacy: You hold your phone up in the air, tag a song, and then you know, more or less immediately, what that song is....Today, Shazam added an interesting new feature...[P.S. If you are the owner of a facility that plays music for public consumption ... you'd better be sure if you tell the ASCAP rep that you don't use any songs licensed by ASCAP.]

Syd Lawrence's Top Music Hacks
By Syd Lawrence -- This is going to be one epic post on all the best music hacks I have seen over the last couple of months.

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Artists Make When Ordering Merch...
By Paul Resnikoff -- I'm Christopher Miles, head of Business Development at Jakprints. As you can imagine, I see a tremendous amount of merchandise orders, creatives, and fire-drills. And when it comes to ordering merch, these are the 10 biggest mistakes artists typically make...

Turnplay for iPad Launches - Classic Turntable Functionality for Digital Music
By David Weiss -- Face it: converting your iTunes library to vinyl isn't going to be easy - this is going to be the next best thing.

Finally, You Can Make Beats with Beets
By Eliot Van Buskirk



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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