ASCAP Daily Brief

Thursday, March 06, 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 WIPO Exhibition Presents New Strategies Against Counterfeit, Pirated Goods  By Maëli Astruc -- This week, some World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) member states are presenting their national and regional practices and strategies to prevent purchases of counterfeit or pirated goods with the aim of promoting the under-reported hard work of states in this area. Trends Report – 'Takedowns and Web-Blocks' By CMU -- After pursuing a plethora of measures against online piracy over the years, most of which achieved little, and often caused more damage than good, the music industry seems to have honed in on a four part anti-piracy strategy in the last 18 months... Collecting Money For Songwriters, A 100-Year Tug Of War By Jeff Lunden -- ...for a century ASCAP has had to fight — sometimes literally — for every penny it collects. [ASCAP president Paul] Williams says ASCAP collects royalties out of a sense of mission. It's nonprofit, owned and run by its member songwriters, composers and publishers. Pandora Has 250-Million Registered Users By Brad Hill -- Those users have created over six-billion custom Pandora stations. Why the Internet TV Pact Between Dish and Disney Breaks New Ground for Cord Cutters By Janko Roettgers -- Dish may only have one broadcaster on board for its planned internet TV service, but the deal nonetheless represents a big step for the TV industry, and for people sick of paying for expensive bundles. [Thanks to Michelle Kay for the link.] Have You Been 'Twibeled' Lately? By Daniel J. Burnick -- What is "Twibel?" A defamatory statement made in a tweet. Courtney Love, the widow of Kurt Cobain, is being sued by her ex-attorney and her law firm over what is alleged to be a defamatory tweet... Prosecution's Use of Social Media Research By Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint -- Law enforcement and prosecutors are increasingly utilizing social networking sites to build their cases...Therefore, it is extremely important that criminal defense attorneys gather from their clients lists of all social networking sites the clients use and instruct them to shut down those accounts, or at the very least, cease all activity on those sites. Facebook's Drone Strategy: Delivering Internet Access from the Air? By Brandon Bailey -- It seems like every Internet company needs a drone strategy these days. Just a few months after Amazon announced it was working on using unmanned aircraft for package delivery, word surfaced that Facebook is in talks to buy drone-maker Titan Aerospace. Want To Enhance Your YouTube Videos With Clickable Links? Here's How! By Christian Cawley -- Have you ever tried to add a clickable link to your YouTube videos, only to find that you can't? There are in fact three ways to do this, methods that have remained hidden – until now! How, Why and When to Advertise Your Music By Aaron Ford -- Deciding to spend money to increase awareness of your project is a big decision...I've found that a step-by-step thought-process prevents one from completely blowing it. 1 in 10 Americans Think HTML is an STD, Study Finds By Salvador Rodriguez Shakespeare's Tragedies in Pictogram. By Cam Magee -- Warning, contains spoilers…or, OK, everybody dies. 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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