ASCAP Daily Brief

Monday, November 18, 2013

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. Tech companies and criminals 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 High Cost of Free By Kathleen Richards -- A new documentary takes a hard look at how the digital age has eroded the value of music and the ability of musicians to make a living..."Thirteen years since the Internet Revolution, I watched all of the artists around me make less and less while their popularity increased" Technology Didn't Kill the Music Industry. The Fans Did... By Sahpreem A. King -- The ideology behind music freemium has destroyed the working class musician and independent labels. NMPA Shows That Standing Up For Your Rights is a Good Thing for Everyone By Chris Castle The Hybrid Album: A Music Product Strategy Proposal By Mark Mulligan -- ...what follows is a product strategy proposal that puts streaming into the very heart of download experiences while simultaneously driving download spending. Who's Afraid of the TPP? By David Newhoff -- Let's be clear, the internet industry lobbies for and tries to sell the public a world view in which all activity online exists outside any law... YouTube commenters bring in text art tanks to fight Google+ integration By Andrea Peterson Watch Where You Write By Len Kendall -- If you house your creative work on a platform you don't own, you could be in for disappointment. Welcome To Twitter, Now What Can You Do? By Selena Larson -- ;Let's take a look at what makes Twitter great, from hashtags, tobreaking news, to poetry. Connected Air: Smart Dust Is The Future Of The Quantified World By Dan Rowinski -- They call it Smart Dust, but these microscopic sensors could change the way we interact with the world. [The flame of mischievous fun that used to light up Music Row has one less torchbearer. Bob Beckham was a great music publisher.] Bob Beckham Dead: Singer, Publisher and Mentor to Dolly Parton Passes Away at 86 By Billy Dukes -- Bob Beckham scored two country hits early in his music career, but soon found his niche on the other side of the radio. The 86-year-old is remembered as a friend and mentor to songwriters like Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton. Why You Aren't as Creative as You'd Like to Think By Jeffrey Marlow -- You're a smart person: a believer in science, an acolyte of technology, a 21st century citizen. So answer this: Could you, and you alone, make something as simple as a pencil? [If you missed this on 60 Minutes last night, here's your chance to get your heart warmed. Trash, kids and music: an unbeatable combination.] VIDEO: The Recyclers: From Trash Comes Triumph By Bob Simon -- The residents of Cateura, Paraguay, don't just make a living from the massive garbage heap in their town. They also make music - crafting ingenious instruments from the trash.TOKYO: Giant Fembots Dance With Dinosaurs in the Weirdest Show on Earth By Cade Metz -- Outside, the city is bracing for the most violent typhoon of the past decade, a storm with winds topping 75 mph that's already dumping endless sheets of rain from the night sky. Yet it all seems mild compared to what's happening inside a bunker of a theater two floors below the wind and the rain. 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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