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When CONSUMERS and CREATORS are happy
everyone in the middle will have gotten digital distribution right
The Coming Cloud Wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook)
By Tim Carmody -- The next year in tech will be all about building connections between PC and post-PC devices, whether phones, tablets, game consoles, e-readers or next-gen SmartRoombas. They'll be connections without cords, built on shared interfaces, proximity-based communication, and storage, syncing and computing infrastructure increasingly shifted to the cloud.
Behind the Music: Should the Music Industry Put Digital First?
By Helienne Lindvall -- Figures show most people still want to listen to CDs, plus there has been a boom in vinyl sales. ... It's as if nobody wants to talk about CDs for fear of sounding like a dinosaur. But while 90% of discussion about the music industry concerns digital consumption and how to monetise it, actual sales show the majority of music fans are, in fact, such dinosaurs.
Clear Channel: What Digital Music Disruption?
By JP Mangalindan -- Despite services like Spotify, Pandora, and Turntable.fm, which have all received generous buzz lately for one reason or another, digital music services aren't quite as disruptive to the music industry as you might think. At least that's what Clear Channel's Bob Pittman insinuated during a discussion about online music services at Brainstorm Tech...
Hot New Music Site Turntable.fm Is Licensed by ASCAP
By Jon Bahr -- It's great to see a tech start-up securing an ASCAP license from the outset, ensuring that songwriters, composers and publishers will be paid fairly if the site succeeds.... With the explosion of online and mobile music, the ASCAP blanket license provides an easy and efficient means for new music services to respect copyrights and compensate the songwriters and composers whose music draws their customers. ... It is extremely easy to get an ASCAP license to stream music. Here's how ...
Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each
By MetronomeReview -- Spotify was able to charge charter sponsors $1 million each for their launch campaigns. However, after these initial sponsorships the company's strategy is similar to most other digital music companies so we think it will end up relying mostly on paid subscriptions for the majority of its revenue.
Why the iCloud Ultimately Beats Spotify...
By Paul Resnikoff -- Spotify will do something in the US market, especially with this level of hype and financing. But there's a serious battle ahead, one that promises to produce huge consumer lessons. Coming this fall, it's Apple's iCloud in one corner, and Spotify in the other -- and here's why the iCloud ultimately prevails...
Google+ Working to Attract Celebrities, Report Says
By Shan Li -- According to Google emails reviewed by CNN, the Mountain View, Calif., tech company is working up a "celebrity acquisition plan" to spread the word and acquire more users.
Access Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
By David Kaplan -- WMG will be part of Airplanes Music, a division of Access Industries, the diversified business group owned by Russian-American industrialist Len Blavatnik. ... With WMG done, the focus will shift to what will happen with EMI Group, which began exploring a sale in June.
Trial Looms for Price-Fixing in Digital Music
By Adam Klasfeld -- Major record labels must face a consolidated class action lawsuit claiming they fixed prices on digital music, a federal judge ruled.
Spotify U.S. Missing Key Feature Available In EU: Pandora-Like Artist Radio
By Bruce Houghton -- As a Spotify user for the last two years, I've sometimes enjoyed the "lean-back and let the algorithm do the work" ease of Artist Radio. And Spotify allows more skipping and control than Pandora. But thanks to licensing issues, American users won't get to experience Artist Radio, at least for now.
Marketing Music Through Non-Linear Communication: The Ecosystem Of Fans, Artist & Label
By Bas Grasmayer -- Be remarkable, be easy to discover, turn your fanbase into a party, connect, listen.
SHANGHAI: Fake Apple Store in China Even Fools Staff
By Melanie Lee -- Chinese counterfeiters have had a field-day pumping out knockoffs of Apple Inc's best-selling iPhones and iPads but one appears to have gone a step further -- a near flawless fake Apple Store that even employees believe is the real deal.
DEAN KAY
Dean Kay has been at the helm of some of the most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies in the world, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, then as President/ CEO of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group, and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Lichelle Music Company. Prior to his involvement in publishing, he was a successful songwriter, having had hundreds of his compositions recorded - including "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Mr. Kay has been a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 1989 and is Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He is also on the Board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).
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