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Are 360 Deals the Panacea for the Music Business?
Undeniably, the recorded music business is relentlessly pursuing 360-degree deals with all new signings. Some live music promoters are also doing the same – note Live Nation and Chairman Michael Cohl’s recent resignation due to the fact that in his view Live Nation was not pursing them as aggressively as he thought that they should [...]
London Calling Day 1 June 19th Report
Well yesterday (Thursday) The Music Void were very busy attending the London Calling music industry conference. Most of the day was spent video interviewing senior executives from the music industry and also mobile and digital space (watch this space for when the video interviews will be posted on The Music Void). I did however happen to catch two conference sessions. The first was a keynote from Martin Blomkvist at Sony Ericsson. The second was a panel following on from Martins keynote focusing on the future of mobile music.







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?...