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Supreme Court OKs Recopyrighting of Public Domain Material
The Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday giving U.S. copyright protection to music from Igor Stravinsky and millions of other works by foreign artists that had been freely available. The justices said in a 6-2 decision that Congress acted within its power to extend protection to works that had been (more)

 

iHeartRadio Adds KCRW, KUSC and College Stations
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment announced it will be adding college and university radio stations to its iHeartRadio, less than a week after Los Angeles public radio stations KCRW and KUSC were confirmed to be joining the digital radio service. Clear Channel is starting with more than 12 colleges (more)

 

Okla. hospital must return $500K to Garth Brooks
An Oklahoma hospital in Garth Brooks' hometown must return a $500,000 donation to the country singer because it failed to build a women's health center in honor of his late mother, jurors ruled Tuesday evening. Jurors also awarded punitive damages in Brooks' breach-of-contract lawsuit against (more)

 

The Legal Fight Over Karaoke is Getting Loud
KTS Karaoke was fed up by the suggestion that it might owe $1.28 billion for 6,715 acts of alleged song infringement. The company decided to drag Sony/ATV Music Publishing into a California federal court for being an aggressive nuisance in the karaoke marketplace. Now, Sony/ATV has travelled halfway (more)

 

Jim Reeves' music royalties at issue in trial
A trial over how music royalties of the late country singer Gentleman Jim Reeves should be split is set to begin this week. Reeves was a country music sensation when he died nearly 50 years ago in a plane crash at the age of 39. The two-day trial that begins Monday will focus on how much Terry Davis (more)

 

SOPA stopped: Chief sponsor delays action indefinitely
Immediately following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) decision to postpone a full vote on the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), which was originally scheduled for Tuesday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), has announced that he will delay further (more)

 

PIPA vote canceled by Sen. Harry Reid
Following last wekk's mass online blackout protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has canceled the January 24 vote on PIPA. The vote postponement comes after 19 senators came out against PIPA, amidst the blackout,  (more)

 

Vevo Invades the Music World
Vevo, the baby on the music block, has quickly become the No. 1 online music site, but if you're like most of America, you've never heard of it. Vevo's CEO Rio Caraeff explains why he's not too worried about that. Since Vevo launched in 2009 with the backing of Sony Music, Universal and EMI, the com  (more)

 

YouTube Removing Subscribers and A New YouTube Player On The Way
In case you're just now recovering from all the recent changes YouTube has made to their system, it's time to brace for another round. This time they'll be removing some of your subscribers from your channel's subscriber count if the subscriber's account is old, inactive, hasn't been linked to a (more)

 

Pandora Radio Now Offered by 23 Automakers
Pandora is taking an aggressive stance toward promoting their product by bumping up the number of car makers carrying their product by 475%. If those numbers don't quite make sense, look at it this way: previously there were four. Now the company can boast 23 automakers with Pandora Radio. (more)

 

SoundExchange Pays Out $89.5 Million in Q4
SoundExchange, the non-profit entity that collects royalties for musicians from satellite radio firms, Internet radio services and cable music channels, says it distributed a record $89.5 million during the fourth quarter. The organization said it made $292 million in royalty payments during 2011, (more)

 

MUSIC CAREER SEMINAR ADDS SESSION ON SPONSORSHIP AND BRANDING 

"You are the brand," says Bob Cohen, who has worked and consulted in the media, sports, and entertainment fields for over 30 years. Cohen is the latest addition to the annual music industry career seminar, "I've Made a Record...Now What?" February 1 in Houston. (more)

 

Clear Channel Rebrands Radio as Media and Entertainment
Clear Channel Radio has rebranded itself as Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, a clear indicator of how important online, mobile and other platforms have become to its business. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment also leverages its multi-platform assets – as well as its vast infrastructure  (more)

 

Gene Watson's Best of the Best: 25 Greatest Hits to be released on Valentine's Day  

This year marks the Golden Anniversary of one of our greatest living country vocalists. In 1962, Gene Watson began his professional career by recording his first single.  To celebrate his 50 years in country music, Watson will release Best of the Best: 25 Greatest Hits on his own Fourteen Carat Music label on February 14, 2012. (more)

 

Arbitron's Internet Radio Measurement Headache
By Jennifer Lane -- Arbitron says comparisons between broadcast streams and online streams can't be made because there is a vast difference between "one to one" and "one to many" streaming audiences.
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Business Matters: Kickstarter Pledges Grow 259% To $99 Million In 2011

The dollar amount pledged to projects through the Kickstarter platform in 2011? $99,344,382. Dollars pledged were up a whopping 259 percent from $27,638,318 in 2010... Also, subscription service Rdio is now available in Australia. And music appears to be an app category people will pay for -- 45 percent of people surveyed had downloaded a music app in the previous 30 days. (more)

 

Waylon Jennings Tribute album set for Feb 7th

Average Joes Entertainment, in conjunction with Scatter Records, announced the official release date for The Music Inside:  A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings, Volume II.  The album will be available for pre-sale purchase digitally on January 24, 2012, with availability at retail starting on February 7, 2012. (more)

 

SoundScan's Year-End Charts: The Numbers Behind the First Positive Album-Sales
Although U.S. sales were slightly less robust in the fourth quarter than they were in the preceding two quarters of this year, the market still managed to hold onto its first positive album sales growth year since 2004. Overall U.S. album sales rose 1.4% to 330.6 million units, up from 2010's total  (more)

 

Music Is a Loser on Wall Street in 2011
Music stocks were much like the broader markets in 2011: a mix of good and bad with an overall decline. Billboard's list of ten music-related stocks fell by an average of 4 percent in 2011. The Dow rose 3.2 percent, the S+P 500 dropped 1.1 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 5.5 percent  (more)

 

Sony, EA, Nintendo drop explicit SOPA support
Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act—SOPA—is spreading from the world of the Internet to the worlds of big business and politics. Along with domain registrar GoDaddy—which kicked off a firestorm of backlash for its SOPA support before doing an about-face—game makers Nintendo, Electronic Arts, (more)

 

How SOPA Will Change the Internet
There has been an immense amount of talk lately regarding a bill currently making its way through the U.S. Congress known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA has been fashioned as an effective response to rampant online piracy of copyrighted content by granting the attorney general broad (more)

 

 

 

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