ASCAP Daily

Wednesday, February 19, 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. 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 The National Endowment for the Arts Contributes Report to Further Show the Significance of Creative Industries to US Economy By Sofia Castillo How The Role of Genres Has Changed In Music Culture By Mark Mulligan -- A school of thought that is gaining traction is that genres matter much less than they did, and that they are no longer so useful for categorizing music... The Plus in Google Plus? It's Mostly for Google By Claire Cain Miller -- Google Plus may not be much of a competitor to Facebook as a social network, but it is central to Google's future — a lens that allows the company to peer more broadly into people's digital life, and to gather an ever-richer trove of the personal information that advertisers covet. [Thanks to David Lowery] Google Developing Internet That's Over 1,000 Times Faster Than Yours By Klint Finley New Study Projects Growth of Online Listening By Brad Hill -- Anew research report from eMarketer projects US online listening to grow incrementally through 2018, from 148-million listeners in 2013 to 183-million listeners in 2018. iMarketer characterizes the audience as "mass market" now, totaling over half the US population, and two-thirds of the online US population. Questlove on How to Find Music You'll Fall in Love With By Ahmir Questlove Thompson Is Apple Changing the Station on its TV? By Patrick May -- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. At least that's what Apple is apparently doing as it rethinks its TV strategy, choosing to partner with big cable companies on streaming content rather than putting together its own programming for an Internet-based television service. Weekly Copyright Issues Wrap Up...February 14th, 2014 By the American Continental Group (ACG) -- [Thanks to the Copyright Alliance for the link.] Do Our Musical Leanings Predict Our Political Ones? Pandora Thinks So By Michelle Quinn -- Pandora is selling the idea that our music equals our politics to candidates and political organizations who seek ways to better target their messages... Reporting From the Web's Underbelly By Nicole Perlroth -- Brian Krebs's widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions off spam, malware and frauds... Seeking Privacy, Teens Turn to Anonymous-Messaging Apps By Cecilia Kang Digital Music Gets a Cubist Makeover By Neha Okhandiar -- An 8-inch wooden cube may be an unlikely spark for a musical revolution – but that's the hope of a collaboration of electronic engineers and musicians working towards hackable electronic instruments that performers can easily modify to produce sounds in surprising new ways. How to Find Your Audience: A Step-by-Step Guide for Musicians By Lukas Camenzind Alison Martino's 'Vintage Los Angeles' Movie sets, the famous Whisky A Go Go and more are all entries in a blog all about Vintage Los Angeles. 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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