ASCAP Daily Brief

Friday, November 08, 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 Whitey Explains to a TV Producer Why His Music Isn't Free... By Paul Resnikoff -- UK-based electro-rock artist Whitey, aka NJ Whitey, has had his music on shows ranging from CSI, The Sopranos, Entourage and Breaking Bad. Here, he explains to a TV producer why he insists on being paid for all of those arrangements. YouTube Overtakes Facebook As Most Popular Site Among Teens By Clyde Smith Report: Swedish Artists Prepare Lawsuit Against Labels over Spotify Payouts By Eliot Van Buskirk -- A new lawsuit being prepared by Scandinavian artists places the blame not on Spotify, but on their record labels, who the artists say are taking too large a share of Spotify's payouts. Still, they plan to boycott Spotify if their demands to the labels are not met. Music Service Spotify To Secure $200m US Deal By Mark Kleinman -- Sky News can reveal that Spotify is in advanced negotiations with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a California-based firm which includes Facebook and Groupon among its investments, over a deal that would see it become a significant shareholder in the music venture...One insider said the new fundraising was likely to total in the region of $200m. Weekly Copyright Issues Wrap Up...November 2, 2013  By American Continental Group (ACG) 6 Ways to Get More People to Your Shows By Simon Tam The Mystery of Nostalgia - Making Music Sound Better for Pretty Much Your Whole Life By Sari Delmar -- In this blog I wanted to review the power of nostalgia, how it happens, and how this knowledge might help artists/promoters/festival create these magical moments for their fans/attendees. If it Wasn't on Twitter, There's NO Point Talking to Us: One in 10 Americans Confess By Rik Myslewski -- "Twitter news consumers stand out for being younger and more educated than both the population overall and Facebook news consumers," the Pew Research Center reports. Twitter Will Need to Be Insanely Profitable Just to Hit its Valuation By Brian Fung -- Twitter will need double-digit growth rates for a decade to meet investors' expectations. Video: 'Hot Hand' MIDI Controller Enables Invisible Instruments, DJ Tricks, More By Eliot Van Buskirk -- With no physical interface to learn, it should become easier and easier for non-musicians (including lesser DJs) to make their music. It's easier to wave your hands around in the air than it is to learn how to, say, play the saxophone. New Musicals Sought for 2014 ASCAP/DreamWorks Musical Theatre Workshop in LA By ASCAP Maybe We're Making It Too Easy For The Machines To Take Over By Dan Rowinski -- Machines that can think for themselves attached to a global brain with the ability to self replicate? Yeah, we're making that happen. [Real people don't seem that interested in this digital revolution bullwhooey] Wait for It: Norway's Slow TV Revolution By Tess Lynch -- Last Friday in Norway, 1.3 million people watched strangers knit on television. For four hours they tuned in as people talked about knitting, and then they stuck around for eight and a half extra hours of actual knitting. I'm serious. 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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