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25 Jan 07

Indie labels combine to form a "virtual fifth major"

  • Independent labels, tired of being treated like second-class citizens at the bargaining table, have banded together to become a "virtual fifth major" label, and they've already started signing deals. Separately, each independent is tiny; together, they could form the largest label in the world.

Music industry softens on podcasts

  • Sony BMG has decided to dip
    its toes     into the world of podcasted music with its recent agreement with
    marketing agency Rock River Communications Inc., making it the first (and
    only, for the time being) major music label in the US to license music for
    podcasting.
05 Dec 06

Giving It Away





  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.

27 Nov 06

No copyright extension for songs

  • The copyright on sound recordings will not be extended after an independent review commissioned by the Treasury.


    Sir Cliff Richard and Jethro Tull had been among artists lobbying for copyright to last 95 years, rather than the present 50.

25 Nov 06

“Productivity for the Practicing Musician”

  • Getting things done for musicians - adubber on 2006-09-03
  • When Merlin approached me about writing a sort of “Getting Music Done” piece, I initially thought: buh? I’m probably the worst model for artistic productivity. After mulling it over, it occurred to me that I’m probably a very typical model. I have a day job. I have rent. I write songs on a used thriftstore guitar and record them when I can scrape enough gig money together. I spend my creative life in that emotional DMZ between self-assured, passionate DIY ferocity and vague, nagging career dissatisfaction. In other words, I’m just like most aspiring musicians. Perfect! So don’t please look on this article as advice from someone who’s “been there” — I’m still getting there
23 Nov 06

EMI chief makes final plea to have copyright extended

  • The EMI boss, speaking at a private seminar at 11 Downing Street, complained that “the views of those who oppose the concept of copyright protection appear to resonate more with Government than (the views of)those who create the work”

US authorises new exemptions to copyright



  • However, there is no addition to the concept of 'fair use' for general consumers - many hoped that an explicit right to copy DVDs to iPod or other portable media device for personal use would be allowed. This has not been the case, and appears to be a big win for the Hollywood film companies.

Mick Hucknall: Fundamental socialism | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music

  • Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing? Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.

Dylan turns DJ on Radio 2

  • BBC Radio 2 has signed up Bob Dylan's US radio show and will launch a year-long run with six programmes over the Christmas period.

Sony's Grouper site denies copyright-infringement claims

  • Grouper.com, the online video-sharing company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, has denied charges in a Universal Music Group lawsuit that accuses the company of allowing users to swap pirated music videos.

Why Universal Music Group Could Stand A Little Monkey Business

  • First of all, if you have not already done so, you can jettison the notion that pre-releasing new music online -- at any price, including no price at all -- will "devastate" legitimate sales. From the earliest days of the Internet, this was a dubious claim at best -- or at least it was until about this time last year, when a British rock band called the Arctic Monkeys demoted it from dubious to just plain dumb.

Rock of Ages

  • Older consumers (along with children) represent one of the few reliable markets in the music business these days, and AARP, the organization for older Americans, is keen to capitalize on that.

Could Australia make YouTube illegal?

  • Critics of a copyright proposal in Australia are warning that serious penalties could result from the use of iPod music players and video-sharing sites like YouTube, even if all you're doing is showing yourself singing along to your favorite song.

Replacing DRM With A Music Tax Is Incredibly Stupid

  • Music industry revenues will be a set size, regardless of the quality or type of music they release. Incentives to innovate will evaporate. There will only be competition for market share, with no attempt to build the size of market or serve less-popular niches. Forget labels building new brands and encouraging early artists to succeed - they’ll bleed existing big names for all they are worth and work hard to keep anything new - labels, artists, and songwriters - out of the market. New entrants just means more competition for a static amount of money. Collusion by existing players will run rampant.

Ring Tones: The End of Music As We Know It?


  • When the technology that delivers pop music changes, our notions of what music is changes as well. Songs have already devolved into ring tones. How much farther can they fall?

Overpackaged CDs and tinned fiction

  • What does it take to sell a CD these days? Here's what the latest album from the Second Hand Roses includes: outside box, inside folder, promotional stickers, promotional cards, info sheet, and the disc itself.
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