All Entries Tagged With: "IFPI"
Digital Music Trends Podcast
In the second instalment of his series on piracy and anti-piracy, Andrea Leonelli interviews Alex Jacob, Communications Manager at the International Federation of the Phonographic industry – better known as the IFPI. Also, the debate organised by Music Ally on Cloud music services, which included some very interesting guests. PRS for music release a controversial [...]
DIGITAL MUSIC TRENDS PODCAST
This week on Digital Music Trends, Andrea Leonelli interviews Ben Rush, CEO of Audiolock.net in the first of a series of features on piracy and anti-piracy, aimed at creating a conversation around a subject that is certainly still at the centre of the debate and still very controversial. He hopes to interview private companies working [...]
THE ROLE PLAYED BY SEARCH ENGINES IN ENABLING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Jakomi Mathews gives his opinion on the BPI’s recent copyright complaint against Google.
Digital Music Trends Podcast
Digital Music Trends Episode 44. This week: an interview with Christian Mix-Linzer, CEO of Berlin-based start-up ‘Tracks and Fields’, as well as a couple of thoughts on last week’s debate at the British Music Experience entitled ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. And in the news: Apple to shut down Lala, but the end-game is still unclear; Spotify [...]
The Russians Are Back
A few years ago the hugely popular AllofMP3.com, a Moscow-based service that undercut iTunes by enormous margins, was the bane of the major record labels. Not only did they undercut iTunes by massive margins, but you could also buy the entire Beatles catalog for about a buck an album. As a result, AllofMP3 became the [...]
Opportunity Knocking
This weekend whilst catching up on current news and recovering from the whirlwind of networking, meetings and elevator pitching that is Midem, I once again took stock of just how inescapable technology as a theme has become to the entertainment industry. This was my first time at Midem, and I was interested to note that [...]
imeem executives walk away with golden handshakes whilst leaving artists high and dry
Jakomi Mathews does some digging and finds out that seinor Imeem executives walked away with between $7 – $9 million in earnouts, despite leaving artists high and dry…
How do the Indies Keep on Keeping On?
TMV would like you to welcome Marie-Alicia Chang as a new regular columnist focusing on analytics and insights in the music business. There have been a lot of developments in the world of music industry analytics in the last six months. The multi-year deal signed by one of the Big Four to a data supplier [...]
Three Strikes Not A Done Deal in Europe
Several events occurred over the last week or so that seem to indicate a growing backlash against Lord Mandelson’s three-strike proposal for curbing online piracy. Last Monday, the Spanish Minister of Culture Angeles González-Sinde said the government “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet” thus saying “no” to a three-strikes policy. [...]
Why doesn’t the music industry have answers to the big questions?
This week Keith Jopling has kindly let TMV re-publish the post from his blog Juggernaut Brew examining why the music sector rarely has decent answers to the big questions that continually plague the industry. As Keith was the key stats man at international recording industry body IFPI he certainly has some dynamic insight. So without [...]
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- Dimensional Completes Acquisition of The Orchard July 29, 2010
- Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Lucian Grainge, Live Nation, Les Savy Fav and more July 28, 2010
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- Nuance Unveils Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11, Simply Smarter Speech Recognition July 29, 2010
- Business Owners Need Understanding of Internet Marketing to Engage With Customers July 29, 2010
- Brits trust the web more than their friends July 29, 2010
- Google Crowned "King of Malware" – Has Two Times More Malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter Combined July 28, 2010
- StrongMail Acquires Marketing Services Firms and Creates Email and Social CRM Agency Powerhouse "ThreadMarketing" July 28, 2010
Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
