ASCAP Daily Brief

Thursday, November 14, 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 Lessons from the Music Industry: Should We Put Our Faith in Technology Companies? By The Trichordist -- "The new bosses further cement their position by 'waging a cynical PR campaign that equates the unauthorized use of other people's property (artist's songs) with freedom.'" Pandora Is a $5-Billion Company By Brad Hill -- Pandora is now valued at just over five-billion dollars in the public market for the first time, as it trades into all-time highs. [Google uses music to look hip while using every technical trick and excuse in (and out of) the book to destroy the creators of music.] Google Glass Does Music: A Sad, Desperate Plea for Coolness By Ryan Tate Let's Play Pretend: a Satire of Google's Second EU Search Remedy Proposal By Scott Cleland -- For satire to work, one has to have something to work with. Well Google doesn't disappoint! Please don't miss the grins and aha-s from this playful satire. Netflix Gets a Makeover By Troy Wolverton -- When browsing for things to watch, subscribers will find more pictures, rewritten synopses and a new feature that tells users why they might like a particular title. Pay TV Operators Lose 113,000 Customers as Cord Cutting Continues By Janko Roettgers The Good Guys: Shazam and Other Licensed Lyrics Resources. By David Lowery -- You've been asking, "If those 50 lyric websites are undesirable, which websites/apps are fair to songwriters?" Here are some lyric sites that appear to be licensed and pay songwriters. Don't Expect Data on P2P Networks to Be Private, Judge Rules By Jaikumar Vijayan -- Defendants claimed that searching for files on their computers violated Fourth Amendment rights. US Copyright Office Small Claims Report & Interview with Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel of the US Copyright Office and Associate Register of Copyrights By Terry Hart -- The average cost to litigate a small copyright infringement lawsuit can easily hit hundreds of thousands of dollars, making it impractical for most independent creators and small businesses to protect their work. How To Be Creative On A Limited Video Budget By Kelley James -- I've pulled together a few easy steps every independent artist should take to not only amp up their content, but increase their digital footprint by connecting with the people who matter most - the fans. Get the Whole Picture with Panono, a Camera-studded Ball You Toss into the Air By Signe Brewster [What a quaint concept] IBM's Strategy in a Nutshell: All Roads Must Lead to Profit By Derrick Harris Album Collector Hopes To Keep Albums Relevant as Music Evolves By Eliot Van Buskirk -- At Music Hack Day Boston this past weekend, two music tech hackers issued a valiant effort to make the album a priority again, in these days of connected services and social everything. This Is Your Brain On Music [INFOGRAPHIC] We know that music has a profound affect on people, but what exactly does it do to their brain, their ability to think, make decisions or learn? 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