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07 Nov 08

MTV, MySpace join forces to make money from pirated videos

  • In the past, content owners have used identification methods as a means of identifying unauthorized content for the sake of calling out the attack dogs and sending take-down notices," Turoczy noted. "The Auditude solution takes exactly the opposite tack: identifying content as a means to extend MTV Networks' reach with the MySpace audience. It's an incredibly innovative way to embrace the behavior of today's Web users while giving something back to the content owners."
06 Apr 08

What MySpace Music backers don't get: Recorded music is no longer a product, but advertising

What the labels call "piracy" is actually free distribution of promotional material, and such a model is not without precedent.

It's called radio, and more recently, music videos. In both cases, record labels basically paid to promote album sales — either through payola, in the case of radio, or through seven-figure film budgets, in the case of music videos

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  • What the labels call "piracy" is actually free distribution of promotional material, and such a model is not without precedent.



    It's called radio, and more recently, music videos. In both cases, record labels basically paid to promote album sales — either through payola, in the case of radio, or through seven-figure film budgets, in the case of music videos

04 Apr 08

MySpace Officially Announces Music Venture with Three of the Major Labels

MySpace has officially announced their new music venture, and as reported yesterday, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, and Warner Music Group are all in as launch partners, leaving EMI as the only major record label not participating

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  • Also confirmed by the company, MySpace Music will offer:



    - DRM-free downloads

    - Ad-supported audio and video streaming

    - Artists merchandise

    - Concert tickets

    - Mobile content (ringtones, wallpapers, etc.)


    Already, MySpace Music claims more than 5 million artist profiles and 30 million monthly unique visitors. The plan is to integrate these new features directly into artist pages, as well as through user homepages. However, don’t expect to see all of these new features today – MySpace says they will be rolled out gradually over the next few months.

23 Mar 08

Billy Bragg Tells Bebo To Give Some Of The Millions To The Musicians

But reading his opinion piece published in today’s New York Times concerning what he calls “the royalty scam” conducted by Internet music portals like MySpace and Bebo, I can’t help but say: wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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  • Don’t get me wrong. I believe in just payment to musicians on radio, whether over-the-air or over-the-Web, as well as through CD and download sales. I think that the record companies have provided the majority of working musicians with ridiculous contractual conditions and have not delivered what I would consider to be a fair percentage of retail income. I think a good portion of “signed” artists deserve more. A lot more. But as far as social networks like MySpace and Bebo are concerned, there’s really no basis to demand that they provide royalties. They didn’t start their businesses with the aim of directly sustaining musicians,
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