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Is the FCC’s Radio Payola Settlement Really a Watershed Moment for Independent Music? While it’s nice lip service from the FCC to request that radio stations program playlists based on “merit,†the reality is that program directors have to make money. And they make money by playing what’s familiar. They’ll sacrifice some low-rated hours to […]
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The Toast of MySpace Tries the Music Business Tila Tequila, born Tila Nguyen, became famous last year for having the most friends — currently about 1.7 million — on MySpace.com… She is now trying to break into the mainstream music industry. Her single “I Love U,†which was produced by the rapper Lil Jon, will […]
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Independent Artists Embrace Technology The other highlight for me was a fireside discussion with Terry McBride, the founder and CEO of Nettwerk Music Group… Here is [sic] some of the points he made during the discussion: On the subject of DRM: • DRM will go away this year. • If the major labels get rid […]
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Newsweek has a good summary of Steve Jobs “jeremiad” (available here) against DRM in digital music: Jobs is far from the first insider to argue for this. His essay is only the latest contribution to a growing movement to drop DRM from legally purchased songs. The RIAA’s response today seems to have missed the mark: […]
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It’s Vista Launch Day, and Create Digital Music has the shortlist of music software with full Vista compatibility. I certainly would not make Vista my primary system at this point, but a dual-boot might be very feasible (and will probably remain the best option for some time). We’ll track compatibility here; I expect to have […]
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Toys for making noise While the U.S. recording industry continues to slide under pressure from illegal downloaders and file-sharers, the other side of the music world — businesses catering to those who create the music — has nearly doubled over the last decade to become a $7.5-billion industry. Indies aim to grab share of online […]
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Basements Become Recording Studios But advances in computer equipment have made it easier to set up a high-quality music studio with a relatively small budget — for teenagers with a couple of guitars and a drum set as well as entrepreneurs with professional aspirations. World’s first 1 terabyte drive Hitachi’s storage division has unveiled what […]
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Music biz hopes to profit from consumer content Rather than just suing YouTube and its ilk for how their sites are used, the music industry can now profit from them, not to mention reap the promotional benefits. Musical mash-ups, once fought by record labels, are going mainstream Some record companies are moving from suing mash-up […]
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AllofMP3.com Ignore RIAA Suit? AllofMP3 countered the music industry’s claim, stating the service is completely legal in Russia as all necessary fees have been forwarded to the Russian royalty collection firm, ROMS Year’s chart-topping album fails to crack 4M sales … in a sign of how piracy, a la carte single sales, the closing of […]
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Music labels have to prove sharing With today’s ruling, it appears that the record labels will have to demonstrate that someone actually infringed on their copyrights by downloading music from Lindor’s computer. That’s a step beyond the RIAA’s argument that making files available for download constitutes infringement. Beatlemaniacs publish books on their own Now, if […]
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Ticketmaster Invests in Music Site Ticketmaster hopes to use links to iLike.com to help ticket buyers learn about new music, while iLike hopes Ticketmaster can help its users find out about scheduled concerts. Record Labels Finally Sue Allofmp3.com It will be interesting to see how this lawsuit turns out — as it was filed in […]
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Net Music Makers acquires My Virtual Band The website will allow bands and solo artists to create personalized websites, join a band, collaborate, and mix tunes. The new site will also provide a multi-channel internet radio station to showcase original songs. iTunes sales ‘collapsing’ While the iTunes service saw healthy growth for much of the […]
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Stripping away digital rights management could shake up online music. Last February, Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg told Music 2.0 conference attendees that record labels should try selling music online without copy protection.It has taken nearly a year to see that sentiment put into play because content owners are hesitant to open up music files […]
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Music Labels Smell Money in Second Life Sony BMG has cast the longest musical shadow in the virtual world so far, purchasing an island in Second Life called Sony Music Media Island, where residents can listen to music and watch music videos. Music lovers mourn ‘whole universe’ of jazz history destroyed in Katrina These deeply […]
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Apple gains control of critical digital download patent With this patent in hand, Apple will eventually be after every phone company, film maker, computer maker and video producer to pay royalties on every download of not just music but also movies and videos ‘Before the Music Dies’ Diagnoses an Ailing Industry In fact, the business […]
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Royalty checks not in the mail for artists In September, SoundExchange announced a Dec. 15 deadline for collection of fees generated by Internet plays between Feb. 1, 1996, and March 31, 2000. The company made public a list of the artists with unclaimed funds. Digital music market to reach nearly $14.9 Billion by 2010 The […]
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RIAA president speaks out on Fair Use Sherman took an accusatory stab at the CEA and Digital freedom stating that their campaign is not only based on false and incendiary rhetoric, but tries to sully their name saying that the CEA is not concerned at all with consumer rights. The Beatles will go online ‘soon’ […]
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