Share The prospect of US artists winning back copyrights under 1970′s copyright law sets up an interesting negotiation. “State of mind” is always critical in any negotiation. If one side feels that the other has been taking advantage, or adopting a “user” state of mind then it will influence their own attitude, and may prevent [...]
Share Last week it was reported that another Publisher, Imagem Music, had chosen to takes its digital rights out of the direct responsibility of Collection Societies, and instead license directly with Dutch company Buma/Stemra, using Collection Societies as its administration agents. All the Major Publishers have now created similar arrangements. The move is of course [...]
Share Music Week reported last week that recent deals between record labels (including Sony and EMI) and game developers have moved the gaming market from what was seen as a mainly promotional platform towards a potentially important source of revenue for the music industry. As the mobile and social networking gaming sector grows, games platforms are [...]
Share Chinese search engine Baidu, who have been facilitating illegal music streams and downloads for a number of years, last week agreed a deal with the major record companies to pay them for having these songs available to their customer base. The key to this deal may lie in the fact that the parties have [...]
Share It is easy to understand why PRS CEO Robert Ashcroft’s is concerned about the Apple Match service cannibalising existing sales – but is this a realistic possibility? If some illegal content is legitimised as a result of the service – with clean Apple files being swapped for illegal ones – then this just brings [...]
Share From US$580 million to US$35 million in 6 years. It shows how quickly your bargaining power can come and go in the digital space. The greater the grip that technology has on our lives the more pronounced this trend becomes. IBM ruled for 30 years, Microsoft for 20. Myspace for less than 10. These [...]
Share The long awaited arrival of Spotify into the US is to be welcomed but it will be interesting to see what kinds of deal the majors have put in place. Spotify’s success outside the US was propelled by making it free to users and ad funded. The premium service was added later and has [...]
Share Apple has all the ingredients to make a success of iCloud. From a deal-making point of view, it can influence its customers to go adopt this new product in a number of ways: 1 – “Authority” – The Apple brand has a great deal of authority with consumers given their recent string of successes [...]
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