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Google
Music an 'Oxymoron' Says Outgoing Warner Music Group
Chairman
Warner is the only major music group that has not licensed its
music to Google for its Google Music download store. The other
three majors and numerous independents were on board with
Google Music when it launched in November. Bronfman explained
Warner's holdout by saying every deal 'comes down
(more)
Sony
Music’s catalog division Legacy Recordings has entered into
a new record deal with County Music Hall of Famer Willie
Nelson.
It
is a reunion of sorts, as Nelson’s nearly 20 year tenure on
Columbia Records from 1975-1993 resulted in some of his best
known
and
loved work beginning with the essential 1975 album Red
Headed Stranger. (more)
We
Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
If there's one thing that encapsulates what's wrong with the
way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn't know
it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend
existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws
(more)
BFM
Digital Acquires New Content From 615 Music/Non-Stop Music,
Hindusthan Music..
615 Music/Non-Stop Music are two of the highly successful
production music companies acquired by Warner/Chappell Music,
the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp.
Other music libraries also acquired have been Groove Addicts
and V. Soon to be consolidated as Warner Chappell
(more)
Music
licensing firms target personal web users
Two music licensing businesses have launched rival services
targeted at individual users, small businesses and
not-for-profit organisations. For a fee, Cuesongs and Ricall
Express offer permissions to use well-known background tracks
for videos posted to sites such as YouTube and Facebook.
(more)
Spotify
now has 3 million paying customers
Spotify has revealed it now has more than 3 million paying
customers across the 12 countries it operates in. The figure
was revealed by Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks who
said this customer base was typically spending twice as much
money annually on his company’s paid-for services than the (more)
Universal
Music May Have Inadvertently Exposed a Flaw in the YouTube
Takedown
Megaupload hasn't experienced much success thus far in
pressing claims that UMG misused its copyrights by removing
the video, which featured many stars purportedly endorsing
Megaupload. But the lawsuit did reveal something that wasn't
known -- YouTube had granted UMG the powers to remove videos
from (more)
Bar
fight! Karaoke company counter-sues Sonty/ATV
Karaoke has been the go-to bar sport for thousands of people
who feel the only thing keeping them back from superstardom is
sobriety. It's a proven money-maker, but does it make
ridiculously large damages-type money? KTS, a manufacturer and
distributor of karaoke discs, is taking Sony/ATV to federal
(more)
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. (more)
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)
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