ASCAP Daily

Wednesday, January 29, 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 Weakening South Africa's IP Regime Would Be Devastating By Erin Humiston -- IPI's Merrill Matthews makes the case against those who claim that strong intellectual property laws hurt the poor..."Those countries with the strongest IP protections are by far the most prosperous economies. Why? Creators create because their investment and efforts are protected. And those efforts create jobs that grow the economy." Tarantino Sues Gawker. Hellz Yeah! By David Newhoff -- There are times when copyright cases contain shades of gray, but this isn't one of them. What possible social justification can anyone offer for leaking the screenplay of a motion picture in development? Enough Is Enough, Silicon Valley Must End its Elitism and Arrogance By Vivek Wadhwa -- The public is investing billions of dollars in tech companies and expects professionalism, maturity and corporate social responsibility. It is losing its tolerance for elitism and arrogance. 1999 – The Stories Behind the Songs By ASCAP100 -- ASCAP stages the first Stories Behind the Songs concert in Washington, DC. The event, featuring music by Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Hal David, Rudy Perez and Jimmy Webb, is intended to raise awareness in the US government about ASCAP's mission by giving a glimpse into the experiences of songwriters hard at work. Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It's the Future of Movies By Angela Watercutter -- "The first time I tried Chris Milk's Beck experience in VR, it fundamentally changed the way I thought about, frankly, audio in VR," says Nate Mitchell, Oculus' vice president of product, "and the impact a live concert could have on me in virtual reality." Spotify, Rdio, Beats Music, and More: How to Get Started with Subscription Music Services By Matthew Moskovciak -- This primer fills you in on the good and the bad of subscription music services, and how to choose between all the options out there. iTunes Radio Ignored in Earnings Call, and Why Apple Doesn't Behave like Pandora By Brad Hill Apple Shares Fall on Warning of Revenue Slowdown By Hayley Tsukayama -- iPhone sales set records during the holidays but missed analysts' forecasts amid flat profits. Don't Be Surprised If Your TV Soon Seems to Know Everything About Your Politics By Brian Fung Why Television Is Dead By Steven Rosenbaum -- If you want to know where video is going, just take a page out of Deep Throat's handbook in All The President's Men...follow the money. [Love the new format.] ICMP Global Briefing - 27 January 2014 By ICMP: International Confederation of Music Publishers Is This Musician Out Of His Mind...or a Genius? By Bob Baker -- Musician Matt Farley has written more than 14,000 extremely quirky songs that are available on Spotify and iTunes. He's written and recorded as many as 100 songs in a single day. He makes close to $25,000 in royalties a year. Not from hit songs, but from tiny streams of income from thousands of songs. Is this guy out of his mind...or is he a genius? Networking: Why it's So Important and How to Do It By Sari Delmar Pete Seeger: America's Celebrated Folk Music 'Archive' By AFP -- A rail-thin New York radical who loved folk music, Pete Seeger loathed the business side and stuck by his principles, influencing younger stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen. Seeger died on Monday at the age of 94, leaving behind classics like "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "If I Had a Hammer," laying out his vision [agree with it or not] of what the United States can and should be. WATCH: 10-Year-Old With No Arms Plays Trumpet with Only His Feet By Ralphie Aversa -- The 10-year-old student at Green Street Elementary School in Phillipsburg, NJ, was born without arms. His older sister used to play piano, and that piqued Wallace's musical curiosity. Undeterred by his disability, the fifth-grader learned the trumpet, playing it with his feet. The Last Place on Earth Without Human Noise By Rachel Nuwer -- [Let me guess. The Googleplex? But, seriously folks...] Is there anywhere left utterly free of man-made sound? 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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