ASCAP Daily Briefing Log

Thursday, November 07, 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 Google's Eric Schmidt Calls the N.S.A.'s Spying 'Outrageous'—We Have Some Helpful Related Searches for Him By Alyssa Bereznak -- The Google executive has filed official complaints with Congress, the N.S.A. and president Obama himself. While he's waiting for their response, we'd like to offer a few avenues of research for Schmidt—straight from the algorithms of his company's own search engine—who no doubt would like to learn more about his company's relation to citizens' privacy. [Thanks to Neil Turkewitz for the link.] [Seriously, isn't your skin starting to crawl about now?] Google Wants to Build Maps That Customize Themselves Based on What They Know About You By Mathew Ingram YouTube Music Awards: The Fox is in the Henhouse By Jennifer Lane -- Produced by Spike Jonze, the awards were designed to be edgy, spontaneous, even strange – and definitely the opposite of the highly staged awards shows that we see on television. A Tale of Two Cities: What Sweden and the US Tell Us About the Outlook for Streaming By Mark Mulligan -- Streaming is the digital zeitgeist, that much is clear. How it will shape the future of the music business, from artists through to labels is less clear and things are not helped by an increasingly confusing and diverse set of data, each suggesting a slightly different outlook. The Push-Pull Relationship of Streaming and Albums By Brad Hill -- Can streaming music help album sales? Deezer On Pace to Become Bigger Than Spotify in 2014... By Paul Resnikoff -- Deezer is now adding more than a million paying subscribers every 4 months, roughly double the pace of Spotify. [And, it ISN'T available in the US...yet.] Game On: Consoles Are Changing How We Think About Entertainment By Alex Pham -- Weeks before the launches of Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, the gaming-console industry stands at a curious crossroads: Its platforms have served up just as much, if not more, traditional entertainment like movies, TV shows and music than they have games. Radio Search Engine Lets You Find Which Station Is Playing Your Song Right Now By Clyde Smith -- Radio Search Engine provides search by artist, song, genre or show but its most appealing feature is the ability to search for songs that are playing right now. Posting Too Many Facebook 'Selfies' Can Hurt Your Real-World Relationships, Study Says By Ryan Grenoble -- The study found that both excessive photo sharing and sharing photos of a certain type makes almost everyone like you less. VinylEars By Brad Hill -- Audiophile alert. Also, classic rock alert. Oh, and vinyl bandwagon alert. VinylEars asserts to be the first all-vinyl online radio station, and that claim gets no contradiction from us. SEO For Musicians: "Don't Chase The Algorithm" By Clyde Smith [This interview reflects the world of all creators in the business of show.] Gravity Star Sandra Bullock: 'What We Do, It's All Sci-fi' - Video Interview By Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes How Does a Song Get from Shane Mcanally's Guitar to Country Radio? Explaining the Complex Process in the Making of a Country Hit. By Chris Richards -- [ASCAP member] Shane McAnally — the red-hot country songwriter who helped pen Kacey Musgraves's "Merry Go Round" and Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" — explains the long, convoluted journey that a song makes from his fingertips, through Music City's time-worn machinery, to the listener's ear. [Thanks to The Copyright Alliance for the link.] 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. 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