ASCAP Daily Update

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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. "Copyright theft is theft as in identity, not in car." Richard Bennett - Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute While Artists are Bitching About Spotify Royalties...Google, YouTube and Grooveshark are in the Getaway Car... By The Trichordist EFF Misses the Nuance of Digital Ownership By Gordon Platt -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is adept at creating slogans or calls to action that over simplify without enlightening. The EFF's themed Copyright Week, which it has scheduled to mark the second anniversary of the SOPA Blackout protests, is no exception. Why No One Cares About Your Music By Ari Herstand -- All musicians are passionately, desperately and hopelessly in love with music. It's why we chose such a difficult career path. But, most people who are music fans and music reviewers, unfortunately, aren't as obsessed with the music itself...What am I getting at? If you're going to manage your music career then you have to understand who you are targeting and what sells. 1991 – Shut Up and Listen! By ASCAP100 -- Our Quiet on the Set series has brought 400+ acts to the (attentive) masses over the years. The first Quiet on the Set took place on July 22nd, 1991 at Largo... Vinyl Records Spin into Revival, Making a Mark in Music City Area By Nate Rau -- The vinyl resurgence has made a mark on Middle Tennessee, where existing independent record stores are expanding, new stores are setting up shop and music fanatics are increasingly turning away digital options in favor of the physical medium that dominated retail music decades ago. Radionomy Now Controls 'Half of All Streamed Internet Radio Worldwide' By Nina Ulloa -- Radionomy is a platform for radio producers and broadcasters and provides a digital audio advertising network. They have added Shoutcast's 50,000 radio stations to their network, leaving them at a total of 60,000 stations. Refrigerator Among Devices Hacked in Internet of Things Cyber Attack By Salvador Rodriguez [Sounds like they are starting to reach the demographic with money.] Facebook's Social Ad Data Shows Less Teens, Less Students, More Sex, Less Drugs By Clyde Smith [Hopefully Siri only retrieves from legal sites.] Get Song Lyrics with Siri from the iPhone or iPad By OS X Daily -- Whether you're aiming for some spontaneous iPhone-based Karaoke, looking to settle a dispute over what an artist is saying, wanting to add some lyrics to a song that is missing them, or just wondering what the lyrics to a given song are, Siri doesn't care, anything goes. These Tiny Speakers Pump Out Studio Sound on the Cheap By Chris Jones -- JBL's LSR305 monitors are small desktop speakers that sound great no matter where you put them in your home. With built-in amps, these "active" speakers only require an outlet for power, and an output source for audio. 40 Thought Provoking Questions For Guitar Players By Klaus Crow VIDEO: Johnnyrandom | Bespoken By Johnnyrandom -- Composer Johnnyrandom breaks new ground with musical compositions made exclusively from everyday objects. His debut single, "Bespoken," explores the full potential of sounds generated from bicycles and their components. [Thanks to Etan Rosenbloom for the link.] 15 'American Idol' Alumni Songs That Don't Suck By Katy Kroll --After crying, clawing, crooning and sometimes caterwauling their way into the top 12, American Idol contestants face their toughest challenge – severing ties with the reality show behemoth and becoming successful musicians in the real world. 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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