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Full access to the majority of reports in this section is only available to MusicTank Members. Non-members may get a flavour for each individual reports' contents through a brief description. A certain number of reports are free for all to access.
May 14, 2009
The Licensing Act 2003 Report
Published on 14.05.09, this is the sixth report published since the inception of the Act. Despite the Act being deemed an overall success, the report expresses concerns that the Act may be "hampering live music performances especially by young musicians, who often get their first break through performing live at small venues such as pubs". It also calls for the scrapping of thecontroversial Metropolitan Police's Promotion and Event Assesment Form, Form 696.
Mar 10, 2009
"Let's Sell Recorded Music!"
Following-on from last year’ event series of the same name, this report analyses the relationships between the recordings business, ISPs, consumers and Government, in an attempt to help foster progress towards compelling legal alternatives to unlicensed file sharing.
Feb 09, 2009
Impacts And Opportunities: Reducing The Carbon Emissions Of CD Packaging
Julie's Bicycle has brought together the UK music industry in an unprecedented show of strength and commitment to undertkae joint initiatives that will significantly reduce our C02 emissions. CD packaging is one of the music industry’s largest sources of direct GHG emissions, accounting for a third of recording and publishing, and at least 10% of the total emissions, from the UK music market. This report collects the combined research, expertise, wisdom and goodwill gathered over noine months and presents us as an industry - but also as a collection of intelligent, concerned and responsible human beings - with a 95% reduction challenge for CD packaging.
Jan 29, 2009
Digital Britain Interim Report
The UK's influential new Digital Britain report makes clear that the government intends to legislate a graduated response "Code" to deal with P2P copyright infringement, but the government says it has no intention of just propping up business models that are "increasingly obsolete." Meanwhile, the music industry says it doesn't go far enough to prevent piracy.
Jan 19, 2009
ISPs The Number One Choice Of Music Provider
A research report conducted by The Leading Question and Music Ally in the UK, US and France has found that music fans overwhelmingly back ISPs as their favoured music supplier when asked to choose amongst a variety of delivery mechanisms.
Jan 19, 2009
PRS For Music: 2008 Financial Results
PRS for Music (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance), which collects and pays music royalties, announces record results for 2008 worth over £600m in royalties to UK songwriters, composers and music publishers.
Jan 18, 2009
The Music Industry In 2009: Predicting The Unpredictable
Marrakesh Records (The Killers, OperaHouse, Low vs Diamond and others) ask the people at the heart of the battle - people whose secrets are rarely revealed. They have designed the ten most pertinent questions and collated these insiders' telling and timely answers.
Dec 19, 2008
MusicTank @ MidemNet '09 - Millennials Road-Map
This artist road-map document is reproduced from MusicTank's "Face To Face With The Millennials" archive, and presented here for MidemNet Blog readers.
Dec 02, 2008
Detica's MusicTank Presentation
In his keynote presentation to the MusicTank think tank, 'Squaring The Circle' Dec 2nd 2008, Detica's Media Accounts Director, Dan Klein asserted that ISPs have an opportunity to break the cycle of declining revenues offered by digital music and suggested a set of models for future digital music sales in the UK.
Oct 30, 2008
MCPS Economic Insight 12: Shadow Pricing P2P’s Economic Impact
On the eve of the deadline for submissions to BERR’s P2P consultation [30.10.08], and more than a decade after file-sharing applications appeared on networks, the supply chain engaging network providers, technology developers and musical copyright owners remains broken, with few signs of self-healing. Here, three authors representing the three disparate camps decided to 'knock heads together' to encourage the parties involved to knock heads as well and co-produce a solution that might satisfy all corners.
