All Entries Tagged With: "Licensing"
Sour Lime
The RIAA is finally about to extract its pound of flesh from LimeWire and its owner, hedge fund operator Mark Gorton. And rightly so. I remember back in the day, when we were winning the Grokster case in the lower courts, trying to talk sense to many of the other p2p operators. I had established [...]
Disruptive Competitor to Traditional Collection Societies Launches Dynamic Service
Luxembourg based upstart Jamendo has launched a new service of background music for businesses like bars, restaurants, hotels and shops. This new service adds to its prior offering of licensing background music for live events and audiovisual production companies. The business has a catalogue of 180,000 tracks, which are not registered with any collection society. [...]
Why ad-supported music won’t work: blame the brands!
I’m sick and tired of new business models blaming labels and licensing rates for their woes when it comes to selling or giving away music by their businesses. Perhaps these ad-funded models need to convince their advertisers that giving away music and being associated with it is not as cheap as a traditional advetising model? [...]
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Billboard.biz- Google Rolls Location-Based Mobile Display Ads July 29, 2010
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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...
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...