ASCAP Daily

Friday, February 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. 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 Camper Van Beethoven's 2013 Net Profit Was $645 Million Dollars Higher Than Twitter. By David Lowery Compulsory Licensing & Chilling Effects By David Newhoff -- The compulsory license strips one of the fundamental properties of copyright, the right of choice, from the artist, and this is why Steven Tyler and Dina LaPolt were supported with letters from other creators including, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Sting, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Fleetwood. Why Does Pandora's Introduction Of Political Ad Targeting Matter To Musicians? By Clyde Smith -- This rollout speaks to Pandora's ability to profile its listeners and is certainly big news in the ad world. But it's also the kind of news that musicians and the music industry should be paying attention to despite the fact that it probably sounds incredibly boring. Don't think it matters? Let me help you do the math. Google, Advertising, Money and Piracy. A History of Wrongdoing Exposed By The Trichordist -- Readers of this blog will know that we've been gaining attention and awareness on brand sponsored piracy. We've noted how "50 Major Brands are Supporting Music Piracy." When that information is paired with The LA Times and The New York Times reports from the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab's Transparency Report on Advertising Networks financing piracy we see a very clear picture emerging. It is very clear that online piracy is a mass scale, for profit, enterprise level commercial business. CMT Artists Release Mobile App For Underserved Country Music Market By Clyde Smith -- According to Matt Seigel, VP of Music Strategy for Viacom, in comparison with other popular music categories country music is underserved online and on mobile. Quick take: it's a nice app that's going to help fill the gap quite solidly. Mobile Games Have Become Ridiculously Lucrative Over The Past Year By Tero Kuittinen Music And Games Make Friends Again By Bobby Owsinski -- At its peak, artists, bands, labels and songwriters saw an unexpected and, for a time, significant income stream that promised to hold up a flagging music industry for a little while, only to have it go the way most trends do and die almost overnight. Why Facebook Just Paid $19 Billion for a Messaging App By Cade Metz Crime Jazz: Noir-ish Music from '50s Television and Film Crime Dramas By Xeni Jardin -- In the '50s, a new style of musical score was introduced to movie soundtracks: jazz. Previously, movie music meant sweeping orchestral themes or traditional Broadway-style musicals. But with the growing popularity of bebop and hard bop as the sound of urban cool, studios began latching onto the now beat as a way to make their movies seem gritty or "street." A Stunning App That Turns Radiohead Songs Into Dreamscapes By Liz Stinson Ethereal Effects By Michael Cooper -- Whether the impetus was Steven Halpern's seminal New Age album Spectrum Suite or 10cc's mainstream mega-hit "I'm Not In Love," 1975 was the year music escaped earthly bounds to explore new sonic landscapes dripping in expansive reverbs and droning tones. Indie Musicians On The Rewards Vs. The Challenges Of Building Independently By Clyde Smith -- When asked about the "advantages and benefits" as well as the "challenges" of going indie, these musicians' answers covered a lot of ground but might be summed up by saying that creative freedom requires business savvy. How A Stressful Night For Miles Davis Spawned Two Classic Albums By NPR Staff -- Fifty years ago, on Feb. 12th, 1964, Miles Davis led a band through one of the most exciting gigs to ever take place at New York's Philharmonic Hall...Journalist and critic Colin Fleming considers this show one of three or four greatest concerts ever given. The irony, he says, is that the experience was miserable for the musicians, who'd had an argument just before showtime. A Taste for Music By Vincent Kessler -- I love cooking and I have a passion for music. What then could please me more than an orchestra that plays music with instruments made out of vegetables? 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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