Music Law

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• Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 539
  The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross) Just as the leaks predicted , the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill , which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively change the law at will with little to no oversight. Basically, it ...
  1 week ago

• Singing About Species

  
  Law & Humanities Blog — Authority: 124
  Charles Darwin has his own minstrel. The Scientists Victoria Stern writes about Philadelphia entertainer Brett Keyser, who sings about Mr. Darwins accomplishments, both on the street and in a one-man show called "Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man." Read more here (subscription; free). Meanwhile, former child star ...
  1 week ago

• All charges against John Rich dropped in court

  
  Music City TV — Authority: 524
  Intern Jenny here! Remember that little tiff John Rich got into with Jared Ashley at a bar a few months back? Well, John Rich headed to court this morning to face assault and harassment charges filed after that incident, and if you can believe it, all the charges were dropped. One of the charges was dropped ...
  1 week ago

• Judge Shutters Websites Selling "Re-Recorded" Beatles Tunes

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  Los Angeles- A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against two websites,BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com, that had been selling unauthorized downloads ofsongs from the Beatles and other artists on the cheap, the Associated Pressreported. read more
  1 week ago

• Digimarc Files Patent Claims Against Music ID Firm Shazam

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  Beaverton,Ore. - Digimarc (NASD: DMRC) , a developer ofdigital watermarking and other technologies, has filed patent infringementclaims against Shazam, the maker of mobile music identification software. read more
  1 week ago

• Another Blow to the Recording Industry?

  
  The Rhetorican — Authority: 514
  Wired : The Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt the Music Industry . Tagged: Entertainment, Law, Music, News
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Years After Napster: Welcome to 1998

  
  The M.E.L.O.N. Feed — Authority: 93
  by Tony Berman Imagine a music service that allowed you to search for anddownload nearly any song for free with no monthly limits or caps. You couldburn the downloaded music to a CD, either creating mixes or burning completealbums. This service exists, but it isn’t called Napster, and this isn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Music economics

  
  a sibilant intake of breath — Authority: 430
  According to data featured on Boing Boing , record labels are dying at the same time as musicians are doing better than ever on account of live performances. To a large extent, this must represent the impact of technology on the industry, particularly the internet and file sharing. Morally and aesthetically, it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brought to you by the number “40″

  
  On the Record — Authority: 125
  Sesame Street turns 40 today. I’ll let that sink in for a minute. (Yes, I know, it was only yesterday you were a kid watching it, where did the time go, etc. etc.) Big Bird and friends have taught generations of children how to count, share, play nice with others, and, perhaps most importantly , why you gotta ...
  2 weeks ago

• REBUTTAL FROM JAH CURE OVER TRINIDADIAN PROMOTER

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 138
  SoBe Entertainment/Danger Zone Recording artiste Jah Cure has Just returned from performing at the show dubbed ‘ It’s Cure Again ’ in Trinidad and Tobago. Jah Cure’s trip to Trinidad and Tobago was not without incident however, as an unscrupulous promoter made efforts to prevent him from performing. On ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teens Cited for “Disorderly Conduct” For “Rapping” Their Order At McDonald’s Drive Thru

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 727
  Some teens got in cited for “disorderly conduct” for “rapping” their order at a McDonald’s. Details: Click here to view the embedded video. So you can get in trouble rapping your order at McDonalds (because the person to whom you’re rapping may feel their life is at risk — but if it’s rap, isn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google’s Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion

  
  247dailypress.com — Authority: 135
  Last night we broke the story that Google would be teaming with a number of well known artists to launch a promotion for its Music Onebox search, which was released last week. Turns out, it’s launching a bit sooner than we thought: beginning tonight a number of well known artists will be offering exclusive songs and ...
  3 weeks ago

• History question

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 146
  Last night I was grooving along to one of the many blues CDs that I picked up in a big eBay purchase over the summer. It was Jail by Big Mama Thornton -- a splendid collection of songs recorded live at prison shows. Imagine my surprise when I glanced at the back of the CD case and caught this: Can any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Exit Strategy: Sue Gartner for $1.696B

  
  spatially relevant — Authority: 467
  I’ve seen a good deal of crazy valuations and market activity to boost share holder wealth, but sometimes you should just choose the maintenance increase.  Ultimately it appears ZL tech doesn’t realize that not all revenue generation ideas or exit strategies should be prioritized solely by the top line ...
  4 weeks ago

• Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 539
  The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry . Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their vaults for hidden gems and classic tracks to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Google Music Search

  
  .Evolving Music. — Authority: 117
  Is there anything that Google can’t do? At least when it comes to search, the answer appears to be no. The behemoth has now teamed with, you know, pretty much all the big players in the music industry to bring us the sleekest and simplest way to search for and discover music. We’re talking Lala , Imeem , ...
  4 weeks ago

• Agreeing to License Part One: Free to Roll With The Changes

  
  The M.E.L.O.N. Feed — Authority: 93
  by Mark A. Pearson, Esq. The following is thefirst in a series of articles that will try and explain some of the pros andcons of entering into a licensing agreement in today’s entertainmentindustry. As the various business models of the entertainment industrycontinue to reinvent themselves almost on a daily ...
  4 weeks ago

• Labels, Artists Target YouTube in Germany Over Copyrights

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  *A correction was made to this story. Hamburg, Germany - Google and YouTube face a copyright-related investigation in Germany, after a group of independent labels, publishers and artists filed complaints against the companies, Billboard reported. Parties to the complaints include labels Highball Music and Coconut ...
  4 weeks ago

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