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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Global recording industry trade group the IFPI predictably responded to a new UK study that downloaders of unauthorized music also spend more money than average adding to their music collections legally. "The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales. This is why spending on recorded music has fallen every year since illegal file-sharing began...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The music industry is an environmental toxicant. Every single step of the way – from the CD you buy, the studio it was recorded in, the merchandise T-shirt you wear – there is an adverse affect on any notion of sustainability. And that’s all before you get to the ever-popular music festival. You may think it’s all hippy and nice to loll around a field for a few days, but from...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A row between two promoters provides fascinating insights into the world of concert promotions, writesSIMON CARSWELL, Finance Correspondent
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KIJO (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were "psycho-acoustic simulations" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hold up in court. Hank calls the technique equivalent to a virtual cover band playing The Beatles' songs. He bought all of their albums, had a computer analyze the waveforms...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday
We read the blogs, so you don't have to. From the FSJ News Center: Firefox celebrates a milestone on Monday. EMI to offer on-the-spot concert recordings. The top iPhone apps of the week. Voilà, the Apple Store opens today in the City of Light. Amusez-vous bien, les Parisiens! Marissa . Sitting on a big..red..ball. ( Gizmodo ) Parisians welcome their first Apple Store , opening today at the Louvre...
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TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The music Industry went mad today when in response to disobliging remarks made by former sour-mouthed, former Polyfilla model and X-factor judge in a fright wig Sharon Osborne, the Heavy Metal Band Wild Horses blazed on to the scene with an elegy to...
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Splash News Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sir Paul McCartney has a revelation to make - that The Beatles 'weren't that good' when they started out. The rocker told a UK radio station: "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all. You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did - Decca turned us down." Luckily good taste prevailed and producer George...
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CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
The major label has announced a new service that will sell recordings of gigs, mixed and mastered at the gig itself, and sold to fans as they make their way to the car park
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JoBlo (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know that musical Spiderman from Julie Taymor that was declared all but dead recently because of monetary problems? Well it ain't quite that dead. Yet. Variety says that with a new producer on board, meaning someone who found a new source of gullible cash cows, work has resumed AND...they found a Spidey. A complete unknown with no reputation to lose in the first place. Music industry vet Michael...
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Celebrity - Female First (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alexandra Burke only realised she was famous when Timbaland heard her urinate.The 'Bad Boys' singer - who rose to fame when she won British TV talent show 'The X Factor' last year - only realised her life had changed when she started running into some of the music industry's biggest names on a daily basis. She explained: "After I won 'The X Factor'...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Capitol Records this week filed a suit against BlueBeat, which says that songs produced by digital regeneration are akin to songs performed by cover bands and do not run afoul of copyright law. A federal court in Los Angeles this week issued a temporary restraining order against a music website that recently had been offering the entire Beatles catalog for downloading at 25 cents per song. The Santa...
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it’s an understandable error. The site’s owner Hank Risan tells FastCompany his catalog of music doesn’t include tracks by the original artists, who, of course, own the publishing rights to their music (many have long resisted posting...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
After making a splash in the '90s with a superb pair of albums, Benet broke from the music industry before repurposing his bedroom R&B with a splash of smooth jazz to make a triumphant return.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
After making a splash in the '90s with a superb pair of albums, Eric Benet broke from the music industry before repurposing his bedroom R&B with a splash of smooth jazz to make a triumphant return.
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bsalmons | 09/09/2009
The newly remastered CDs of the Beatles' original albums and singles, which EMI and Apple Corps, the Beatles' company, are releasing today, have less of a gee-whiz factor than The Beatles: Rock Band, which also hits stores today. But for those of us for whom the music is paramount - and who will forever refer to Rock Band as "the toy" - the game is a plastic tail wagging a cartoonish dog.
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wposteruk | 02/09/2009
Three months after its launch, the RSA, the income of active solidarity, seems to be difficult to implement. The RIAA, which should provide additional income to the working poor is perceived, for the moment, only 10% of potential beneficiaries. More ... (more. ..)
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themusicvoid | 30/07/2009
Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many
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