ASCAP Daily Brief

Monday, March 03, 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 Tech Time Warp of the Week: Check Out Mid-'90s Netscape, the Coolest Startup in Silicon Valley By Daniela Hernandez -- Twenty years on, it's a rather amusing pitch. But it also shows that Netscape did more than just lay the technological foundation for companies like Google and Facebook and GitHub. It's also laid the cultural foundation. [Boy, did it. For example, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen says in the video, "We're looking for people who will ask for forgiveness afterwards rather than ask for permission up front," the morally corrupt credo Google lives by to this day.] YouTube Is the World's Biggest Music Streaming Service, Says Spotify By Janko Roettgers -- Spotify is starting to see nine-digit play counts for some of its songs — but YouTube still drives far bigger audiences. Amazon Wants To Start A Streaming Service By Mike Blossom Records Is Shutting Down on Record Store Day and Putting Everything On a Bus... By Nina Ulloa Dead Air on Radio Royalties By Brad Hill -- Should broadcast radio be required to pay royalties to labels and recording artists for use of their records? There are arguments on both sides, and the stalemate reinforces inertia. But the debate is heating up, gaining publicity, and creating awareness of an issue that many people don't know about. Now You Know Everything About Music Publishing... By Budi Voogt -- It's essential to manage and exploit your musical repertoire, and look at alternative means to generate revenue streams in this realm. To make this happen you need to understand music copyright and publishing...How Live Music Is Evolving with the Digital Age By Stuart Dredge -- Digital music isn't just a recorded thing: there are a growing number of ways that digital technology – from apps and social media to big data – is having an impact on the live music market. With $1 Billion in Sales, Apple TV Is Not Just a 'Hobby' By Chris O'Brien [I dunno, I always feel a bit queasy when I lose $300 million.] Why Defenders Say Collapse of Mt. Gox Is Good for Bitcoin By Chris O'Brien -- The collapse of Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange according to Bitcoincharts.com, and the potential loss of $300 million by its customers who wouldn't get their Bitcoins out, might seem like bad news to some. But for many in the Bitcoin community, it's actually being seen as a welcome development. Quoted: Mt. Gox's Massive Bitcoin Losses By Mark Murphy -- Mt. Gox owner and CEO Mark Karpeles: "There was some weakness in the system, and the bitcoins have disappeared. I apologize for causing trouble." Nearly 150 Breeds Of Bitcoin-Stealing Malware In The Wild  By Andy Greenberg ["If this kind of thing isn't good for real people let's see if we can sucker punch creators. Why not? Everybody else does."] Songcoin: A Digital Currency for the Music Industry... By Nina Ulloa 25 Greatest Original Song Nominees That Lost at the Oscars By Katie Hasty, Melinda Newman, Liane Bonin Starr, Daniel Fienberg, Gregory Ellwood, Alan Sepinwall, Dave Lewis and Chris Eggertsen This Might Be The First Selfie In Photographic History By John Brownlee [From the Creator's Survival Guide] 74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza By Quoctrung Bui VIDEO: Rhapsody in Blue Harmonica This wonderful performance of the George Gershwin classic is from 2009 when the performer, Leung Pak-yue, was 13 years old. [Thanks to Hank Jones 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. 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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