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Jun 26, 2009
PRS Says Oldies Worth Their Weight In Gold
Music industry legends and groups enjoying comebacks have given a 30pc boost to UK music tour revenues. PRS for Music, the organisation responsible for licensing all UK live performances, found the value of the biggest tours rose from £311m in 2007 to £403m last year. The figures suggest a steady rise in touring value at the top, mainly driven by older performers, that has bucked the economic downturn.
Jun 18, 2009
Nicholas Lezard: Don't Force Digital Radio On Us
Analogue radio's death knoll has been confirmed, with the target - set in the new report, Digital Britain - for a switchover to DAB to take place by 2015.
Jun 18, 2009
Spotify Joins Push To Get Music Lovers To Pay For Content
Spotify plans to bolster its existing premium service with a range of value-added services in a bid to get fans to pay for content. The music streaming service hopes to convert its 1m users to a premium subscription by offering extras such as mobile and living-room access, higher quality streams, bundled downloads, recommendation, ticketing and social features.
Jun 18, 2009
Italian Court Orders MP3 Pirates To Pay €2.4 Million
An Italian court has ordered 54 people behind illegal music download sites to pay more than €2.4 million (£2 million) in damages for copyright infringement following a six-year investigation. The case was first brought against various music download sites in 2003 by the Federation Against Music Piracy—which represents all four major labels in Italy—the IFPI-affiliated Italian Music Industry Federation (FIMI) and the Italian Fiscal Police.
Jun 18, 2009
Build Your Band And The Brands Will Come
"As an artist, you must become a brand unto yourself. It's only then that a major marketer will desire this transference of values." So says music-brand agency, Rock River Music's Jeff Daniel.
Jun 18, 2009
Facebook Hit By Privacy Blow
European privacy regulators could be about to throw a spanner into the works of attempts by social networking sites such as Facebook to find new ways to increase profits as they try to restrict the way internet groups release personal data. The European move marks the first attempt by regulators to address the "open" internet platforms that the social networks, led by Facebook, have rushed to create. By letting other applications ride on top of their systems, tapping into personal data about their members, the networks have sought both to tie in users for longer and create money-making opportunities.
Jun 18, 2009
An Indie Label Sounds Off: Why We Don’t Love Grooveshark
An open letter from Ben Patterson, who runs indie Web music distributor DashGo, about his experience with the Grooveshark service.
Jun 18, 2009
Music Labels Win $2 Million In Web Case
The Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, and other record labels were awarded $1.92 million on Thursday in the retrial of a Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service. The federal jury in Minneapolis said the woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, of Brainerd, should pay $80,000 for each of the 24 songs that were posted on the site so others could download them.
Jun 18, 2009
Songbird Releases iPhone Sync Workaround
Open-source Mozilla-based music player Songbird just announced a slew of new features including the long anticipated ability to get music onto the iPhone [via iTunes].
Jun 18, 2009
Behind The Music: Can Artists Stop People From Covering Their Songs?
The trend for instant cover versions entering the charts at the same time as the originals is robbing performers of royalties.
