AKA AVOIDING THE EPIC DISTRACTIONS OF INDUSTRY Part of my job is to keep an eye on what music commentators are arguing about. I have students to consider, many of whom hope to make music a career o...
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It appears that Google might be experimenting with some form of music playback in search results when using its Chrome browser. In a number of incidents a song or lyrics has been searched for and after a short delay the responding audio file plays in the background.
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With proper royalty fees, this could be a major cash flow generator for publishing rights holders. Delete the scoop?
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The reason richer people download more is more likely due to the technology they can afford – expensive computers, Android phones and iPhones and high-speed broadband (this also explains why most file sharers, according to the research, live in a metro area rather than the countryside).
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Internships are widely used in the music industry globally, a by-product of the extreme competition for highly-sought after positions in
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Getting paid for work done? That would be a major improvement in the industry! Delete the scoop?
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That's not all! The winning artist will perform during Midem Festival for a 30-minute set. You will also receive two free registration passes to Midem 2014, and a free one-year subscription to SoundCloud Pro Unlimited.
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That's right. Submit your song for sync at Midem, and don't expect to get paid, you fools! (But why would need money anyway when you can get exposure and a free Midem tote bag?) Delete the scoop?
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Alan McGee, one of the music industry’s most controversial and enigmatic figures is set to return to the business he once shunned more than a decade ago.
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Hear it from Alan McGee. The days of major labels are over! Delete the scoop?
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Amanda Zelina is a self-described “Antique hunter/Artist/Writer/Avid vinyl collector” but she’s best known by musical alias, The Coppertone, and has launched a new campaign via crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to ‘Help Free The Coppertone’ from her current recording contract by raising the necessary funds to buy back her catalogue from her former record label so that she can forge ahead and release new music.
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Crowd-funding your way out of your label deal. I'm remember fantasying this over a Vietnamese lunch, it's now being done! Delete the scoop?
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It appears Apple and Google could be taking the music industry for a ride, underpaying for valuable listening data.
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Answer is yes, and the industry cannot wait for getting screwed over by Apple. Delete the scoop?
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Sophie Heawood: Streaming music has made it so dull I've lost all interest in it
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Makes perfect sense to me: music isn't a Cloud driven endless flow, music is some art you engage yourself in. And I don't see that coming in a digital-only era. Delete the scoop?
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Creative Commons has grown tremendously since we started.
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Creative Commons celebrate 10 years of struggle for free digital culture. Delete the scoop?
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Major record companies including Universal, Sony, and Warner Music have demanded all Chinese Web sites offering free music service to start charging users from June 5.
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China, the final frontier. Majors companies executives go nuts when thinking of a billion chinese subscribing to streaming services. Delete the scoop?
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French digital minister says "it’s like cutting off someone’s water.”
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So far Hadopi has been spending more money than it will ever recover from piracy. Delete the scoop?
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Top 10 Reasons Why the Music Industry is Failing
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There's more than 10 reasons, but these ones have definitely done the biggest part of job. 
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After these 10 and more beautiful adimission of failure ... I'm not so pessimistic !B´cause when it´s the end of something, it's the beginning of a new power !We to take advantage about this 10 points to get higher I believe in Future with Great Young Mutants loving music. A new era is beginning : Empower the Artist - D2F ... Lets go to build new
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Is there a reason Vine videos are exactly six seconds long? Yes, and it has a lot to do with high profile court cases that almost destroyed hip hop music.
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Charles Arthur: Streaming music system ties in users, supports iPhone and iPad sales and is likely to lead to more music buying
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Basically, iTunes Radio is an iTunes/iOS supported biz accelerator for iTunes/iOS. Apple expects snowballing revenues. Delete the scoop?
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Foul play?? Samsung buy 1 million copies of Jay Z's new album so it goes instantly platinum
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Old trick, new dog. Delete the scoop?
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Last year, Japan startled the industry by almost beating the US in total recording sales. Now, it appears that Japan may grab the crown as the biggest music market in 2013, with healthy physical sales a big part of the reason.
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Big in Japan. No wait, huge in Japan! Delete the scoop?
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Using rock and roll industry as a example is one of the best ways to explain economics -- many of the forces that are buffeting the U.S. economy can be understood in the context of the music industry.
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Now hear it from The White House: indie artists are doomed to be underground. Delete the scoop?
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Pandora is angry about the royalties it's paying to music publishers, so the company is buying a radio station in South Dakota mainly to score lower rates.
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Apple has announced a new streaming music service. iTunes Radio. The new station-based radio player launches this fall.
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iTunes Radio finally hits the stage blasting Led Zeppelin - Apple are surely evil, but they sure have decent taste. Delete the scoop?
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In response to your copyright infringement claim over Gummy Soul’s Bizarre Tribe; A Quest To The Pharcyde by Amerigo Gazaway (“Bizarre Tribe”), understand the vast majority of the samples used to create Bizarre Tribe were not taken from the catalog of A Tribe Called Quest (“ATCQ”). What your diligence failed to uncover is that Gummy Soul is not in the business of merging one artist’s instrumentals with vocals of another. Had one of the six Sony attorneys copied in your email deemed it necessary to listen to Bizarre Tribe before pursuing legal action, you would know that our projects are much more nuanced.
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Now, this is big, Sony's suing Gummy Soul for sampling the material that was orginally sampled by A Tribe Called Quest. Delete the scoop?
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What do Sonny and Cher, Kansas, Michael Jackson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bono, Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Toby Keith, Jefferson Airplane, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Winehouse, Weezer, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Redding, Air Supply, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Bob Seger and Fleetwood Mac have in common? Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/05/bmi-lawsuit-michael-jackson-lil-wayne-lady-gaga-rolling-stones-small-bars/#ixzz2VR52XR8w
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I wonder what BMI represented artists would actually say about that? Delete the scoop?
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1 out of every 14 music download sales begins with Shazam. If you've ever wondered how to get your music on Shazam, the answer is simple: CD Baby!
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'cause every love story with a band start with "what's that!?" Delete the scoop?
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For years, when it came to driving negotiations with internet music services over licensing, the top record labels were the locomotive and the publishers were the caboose. If the labels licensed...
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So basically, music publishers want more money from music streaming, and Apple didn't see that coming? Delete the scoop?
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This story on five independent labels working together to create autonomous deals with major distributors is from the latest issue of Billboard
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You can download them for free. But it's not that easy.
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Remember this simple rule before putting anything online: once it's out on the internet, it is actually out on the internet. Delete the scoop?
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