All Entries Tagged With: "EMI"
Copyright Is So Damn Annoying!
This week Pandora announced over $50 million in annual revenues. This was, for many, big news. Even bigger news was the announcement last month that they were profitable in the 4th quarter of 2009, and tracking full-year profitability in 2010. But the information that seemed to rub many industry critics the wrong way was the [...]
EMI Crashes £1.75 Billion Into The Red
EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, crashed £1.75bn into the red last year, according to figures released by the company on Friday 5th February.
The loss is one of the biggest black holes ever seen in a private equity-backed business and threatens [...]
Ed O’Brien Speaks Exclusively About “In Rainbows”
On Friday 8th January, 2010 Midem posted an exclusive video interview with Radiohead band member Ed O’Brien. The video provides some much needed insight into where the band were coming from and their whole thinking behind their “pay what you feel its worth” model. Ed also goes on to say that Radiohead’s experience with indie [...]
Deviated Work
Last week EMI sued video streaming site Vimeo for inducement of copyright infringement by encouraging users to submit their own video “lip dubs” of their favorite songs.
No doubt that Vimeo will raise issues of fair use and derivative works in their defense. A derivative work is “an expressive creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of [...]
Vevo – Another Failed Venture or A Virtual Video Goldmine?
There has been a lot of press lately surrounding the new Vevo site, due to launch today, but what is it all about exactly? Here we will give you everything you need to know about this new service. Vevo is a project between Google, Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Abu Dhabi Media Company for [...]
Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?
In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to [...]
The One Movement for Music in Perth shows Australia in triumphant form
Partner at UK based Music legal firm Sound Advice, Robert Horsfall provides a dynamic review of the recent One Movement Festival and Industry conference in Perth Australia
Labels Getting Into Live, Are They Already Too Late?
The live concert industry has become more and more of a priority not only to record labels, but also to many larger media companies these past few years. With each year bringing forth more broadband users and digitally switched on, media hungry fans, concert revenues are becoming a reality from both ad-funded streaming and sales [...]
Digging Into The Reserves: Worth Losing The Best Ones First?
Sony has had much reason to celebrate this weekend as Michael Jackson’s rehearsal documentary “This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days. “This Is It” certainly has a shot to break the record of most successful concert film in the US, currently held by Miley Cyrus’s “The Best of Both [...]
Vevo Valued at $300 Million?
Yesterday it was reported that Universal Music execs were on the road pitching for investment in Vevo, Universal’s joint venture with Sony Music. They are giving the yet-to-be-launched music video channel a $300 million valuation, more than Spotify even. This, of course, is psychotic.
Generally speaking, investors have been very wary of record labels. They don’t [...]
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Billboard.biz- Vevo's Traffic Surge March 11, 2010
- Kings Of Leon Take 'Revenge' On iPhone Gamers March 11, 2010
- 'Green Day: Rock Band' Release Date Set March 11, 2010
- France’s Zimbalam Plants Flag In North America March 11, 2010
- Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy March 11, 2010
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- Break the Victorinox code and win £100,000 March 11, 2010
- Enhanced Mobile-Phone Based Dog Tracking From Retrieva Tracking And ViewRanger March 11, 2010
- Twitter Makes Its Red Carpet Debut For Celebrities And Criminals March 10, 2010
- VideoEgg to Present at iMedia Brand Summit 2010 March 10, 2010
- TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010: Soaring Interest Attracts Fierce Competition March 10, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...