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Event Report: Wed 17th March @SXSW – 1,000 Digital Tools & Strategies: Which 3 Work?
Cassandra Callais reports from the SXSW 2010 panel sessions
Event Report: @ SXSW Tues 16th March – The State Of Music Blogs 2010
Cassandra Callais, reports from the SXSW 2010 panel sessions
Return Of The Album? Pink Floyd Wins Online Bundling Right
The album’s not dead yet – well, not in Pink Floyd’s case at least. A judge has ruled in favour of the prog rock band, which went to the UK High Court for the right to have its material sold online only the form of albums, not individual singles, which have became the dominant form [...]
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
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Billboard.biz- HMV, Orange Partner On Mobile Gaming March 19, 2010
- Viacom, Google Accuse Other Of YouTube Hypocrisy March 19, 2010
- Comes With Music To Launch In India March 19, 2010
- Google May Announce China Plans Monday: Report March 19, 2010
- Business Matters: No Good TV, The Key To Successful Mobile Apps and More March 19, 2010
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- Telmap and BlueSky Positioning collaborate to integrate real-time location-based and navigation services into A-GPS SIM March 18, 2010
- Facebook's first soap opera launches March 18, 2010
- Whitevector Releases New Online Discussion Based Data About Websites March 18, 2010
- Smartphones Launches College Basketball Bracket Challenge App March 17, 2010
- Technosummits' Media Content World Summit London 31st March 2010 To Debate Telco VoD or Internet Video March 17, 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...
Music Industry Payments Strategy 2010: something tedious and strenuous, or something built upon inner drive and desire?...