ASCAP Daily Brief

Thursday, March 13, 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 House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet is holding a hearing today on the safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This post by Chris Castle from October 2013 is more important than ever as creators continue to search for a more efficient way to protect their works from being illegally downloaded.] Copyright Erosion: How DMCA Misuse Became A Multimillion Dollar Shakedown and Income Transfer By Chris Castle -- ...due to an extraordinarily distorted interpretation of the "safe harbors" created with the best of intentions by the Congress in 1998 (the so-called "DMCA notice and takedown"), the value of copyright not only is eroded, but an – illegal – multi-billion dollar business has evolved. The DMCA has, in effect, fostered one of the greatest income transfers of all time... How Amazon Is Going After Apple and Google By Chris Ciaccia -- Amazon is going after the grocery business as its next big growth engine, but don't let that fool you into thinking that's all it's focused on. The next target for Amazon? Your living room... Spotify's Ken Parks on an IPO, the Echo Nest Purchase (Q&A) By Andrew Flanaga -- At the Spotify House in Austin during SXSWi, Billboard spoke with Ken Parks, the music streaming service's chief content officer who discussed how an IPO would impact (or not impact) the company, what shortcomings the Echo Nest purchase might address, equalizing artists' royalty payments and much more. Rdio Will Terminate its Relationship With The Echo Nest By Brad Hill -- The Echo Nest was acquired by Spotify last week, and [Rdio CEO Anthony] Bay indicated in an interview that he didn't want Rdio user metrics to be visible to Spotify, one of its primary competitors. Beats Music Raises $60 Million in Funding By Emily White -- The money comes largely from current investors, including Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Access Industries with the cash being used to invest in product development, acquiring new customers and marketing. Universal Music Mulls 'All You Can Eat' Buffet of Song Downloads By Andrew Orlowski -- Universal has helped scupper such "all you can eat" concepts before amid fears that buffet-style music services encourage fans to join, download everything in sight, and then leave after a short period... VIDEO: Aereo Case: Bloomberg TV Interview with Sandra Aistars By The Copyright Alliance CBS May Go Online, Cut Off Its Broadcast Signal If Aereo Prevails: CEO By Liana B. Baker Why Pono Is the Worst Audio Player I Have EVER Seen... By Steven Finch [Is Google's next step encrypting searches for illegal creative products?] Google Is Encrypting Search Worldwide. That's Bad for the NSA and China By Craig Timberg and Jia Lynn Yang Silicon Valley's Youth Problem By Yiren lu -- In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much...The talent — and there's a ton of it — flowing into Silicon Valley cares little about improving infrastructural elements. What they care about is coming up with more web apps. 2014's Highest-Paid Musicians By Rebecca Macatee Earliest Known Fender Stratocaster on Sale in Nashville By Nate Rau -- It wasn't played by a rock 'n' roll hero like Bob Dylan or Elvis Presley, but a historic guitar is on sale for $250,000 at a Nashville instrument shop. The guitar is the earliest known Fender Stratocaster, the electric guitar that has built a cult following all its own. Doris Day is 90 - 'Que Sera, Sera' Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans [Does this mean the end of the triangle song?] Starting Today, Jealous Lovers Can Buy NSA-Like Monitoring Powers By Adam Tanner -- Starting today, mSpy is selling phones preloaded with software that make it simple for users without any tech savvy to start surveillance right out of the box. 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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